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You suffer because you refused to dare your challenges in the face enough.

July 29 4 min read Latunde Akin
You suffer because you refused to dare your challenges in the face enough.

You suffer because you refused to dare your challenges in the face enough.
Many like their comfort zone when they're supposed to move out of such limiting zone in a fanatical way.
After I was told to return the official car of the job that lost me. I knew it was sudden and unexpected, so I tried to apply for a new job at SUMAL biscuits company. The pay was very low to what I earned on the job that lost me,but I felt in my spirit the need to accept that job so I can learn something and also check out immediately with inspiration.
On getting the job,I worked 12 hours at a stretch checking quality of processes and products. I became so tired and said to myself, this is a great bondage to me. Much more my salary before was 4 times better than what they wanted to pay me. How can I survive with paying for a four bedroom flat rent in an estate with just 800naira per day?
With the inspiration I got about how the company mixed her flour, connected to what I learned from my mother as a chincin baker. I simply didn't return to that job the second day. I can't waste my strength for the second day.
My wife looked at me and asked why so sudden? I responded it is better to run a chinchin business by myself instead to wasting my strength on a job that can't pay for my accommodation and bills.
No self pity,no looking at anybody's help or hand. I was more brutal then,so to start afresh wasn't a problem.
You will be surprised I mixed the flour for chinchin by myself, I will fry them,packaged them and go about hawking them. It looked like shame because people knew me with a good job and official car. Them seeing me trekking to supply chinchin was actually demeaning.
I made more money than working in that biscuit company. I made 3 times of what they wanted to give as salary.
My goal was first, that my wife will never suffer or has any reason to lack. That my children won't grow to have any reason to be needy. I have calculated it that Satan wanted to limit my sphere of good life by that nonsense job,so I quickly broke free! And I was truly free. Infact my friends then looked at me with wonder
. The rugged spirit was high and because of that God helped me.
Not long after, a restaurant I have submitted proposal to in Lagos four years past remembered to check their files and called me for a consulting job. Boomed within a week I smiled home with big cash. Immediately I stopped chinchin production into another business.
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You're suffering because you allowed yourself to be limited. Stop pitying yourself today, use your brain and calculate that you need to immediately go all out for what you know best to do. Stop looking at money, go all out.
It's better to suffer for a good course than enjoying peanut in destiny.
My wife knows me,that I am a man who can't accept less. I might just be humble, but not wicked ignorant humility. I hustle to the core and I won't accept any job that can box me into penury.
Get this fact,if you're not spiritual enough not to be boxed,they will box you. So your best bet is to first find God at all cost through divine knowledge and prayer.
Yes,I know it was a spiritual battle,reason I also decided the rugged wisdom approach,after many night of prayers. You don't find me sleeping anyhow. Many great people don't use all night to sleep but to do something meaningful. So it helps me now as a missionary for God. Never take your night carelessly, that is when real men are made.
Get up! Get out to work that new vision!! God will help you in Jesus name. You will prosper!
Your brother,
Latunde Akin