acquired Banana island property and some more than a few words…inspiring message actually… to young
women.
1. She has never slept with any man for money.
name is Linda Ikeji. I’m a blogger. I’m 35 years old and I have
never…never ever in my life slept with a man for money. Not only have I
never done it, I have never even consider it…and here I am with a
house that cost me over half a billion naira.2. Anybody can be a billonaire as long as you are determined to succeed.
beautiful and you are stronger than you know. There’s absolutely nothing
you can’t achieve if you set your mind to it, put her heart and soul
into it. Up until five years ago, I was a struggling entrepreneur. I
can’t tell you how many offices in this Lagos I sat in for hours waiting
to see people who could support my business…but most times, I never
passed the reception area. But I never gave up and I never stopped
believing and here I am today.
3. No dream is too big:
better than this. No dream is too big, no dream is too small, no
mountain is too high…it’s all in your mind. It’s all up to you. If you
believe in you, in your God who is guiding you, then the sky is your
starting point.
Please stop waiting around for a man to give to
you…to put food on your table and put clothes on your back. I promise
you, you can do it for yourself. Start thinking big, believe in
yourself, be creative and start working. Realize that your dreams are
valid…and nobody will make your dreams come true except you. Find what
you are good at. Find something that you are passionate about. Work
hard at it. Be consistent. Be patient. Start young. Even if you’re not
young, it’s never too late!
have been hustling since I left secondary school..started modeling
before I entered university in 1998. Was running a modeling agency even
while I was a student and made it a full time business after I left
university. I never doubted that I would succeed one day, because I was
determined.
Like Barack Obama’s sister said, poverty is
not an excuse! I used to sell/market beer at Sheraton hotel, Lagos when I
was in university for N1,000 a day. I once lived on ‘puff puff’ and
garri for weeks in UNILAG and I was supposedly a top model but nobody
knew what I was going through. Trust me, I know poverty. Did you know I
lived in Idi-oro, Mushin for 15 years? Up until when I was 25? Did you
live in Mushin? Eh, so what’s your excuse? I can’t even say some things
here for my family’s privacy but here I am today because I never doubted
myself and I never allowed all the doubters to distract me. I was
focused. I was determined. I worked hard and I knew the God I served
won’t let me down. The road was long, sometimes very frustrating and
painful but look at me now. God did it because he saw that I was
willing!
make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She
doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it
takes.”
blogging since 2006…November this year will make it exactly 9 years.
God, consistency and hard work brought me here today.
“Unfortunately,
a lot of our young girls aren’t patient and some are lazy, they want it
quick and fast but it doesn’t work like that. Success takes time –
takes hard work – takes passion – takes consistency – but more than
anything else, it takes the Grace of God.
I was a 30 year old
broke woman and on my birthday, a very sad and depressed me turned to
God and begged him. I told Him you promised me, when will You fulfill
Your promise? Am I not Your child? Have I not lived according to Your
teachings? When will You bless me? Please God help me…and with tears
in my eyes, I begged Him. I cried and I begged and I begged and I
begged. A few months later my life changed. Never underestimate God’s
love for you and the power of prayer.
never stop working. Listen, I make enough money to hire so many people
to work on this blog while I go do other things and enjoy myself…but I
don’t do that. I’m up while some of you are sleeping, and already
blogging before some of you wake up. I don’t take this for granted. I
know to stay on top, I have to constantly work and nobody will be as
dedicated as I am because this is not their own thing. It’s mine and I
have to keep feeding it. So I’m constantly here!
Young ladies, I
promise you…you too can do this. You don’t need to spread your legs
for any bladdy man – because of how much? N200k? That’s how much my
shoes cost – so why you should give up your body for that? Your sacred
body? God’s temple? 200k that you can make in a week or even in a day if
you pursue your dreams and still have your dignity intact? You think
people don’t see that you’re messing around with all dem old married men
and talking about it? Think ladies, think! When next a man propositions
you…tell him to get lost, that you will get yours yourself! Abi,
aren’t you a woman? You know what they say about women? “A woman is like
a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot
water.”. You are so strong, you don’t even know!
Also, if you
want God to bless you, you have to have a clean heart. All these
backbiting, hating on others, trying to bring people down with hateful
words, action etc – God doesn’t like ugly. He has over 6 billion people
to look after and you think he will pay extra attention to you if your
heart is ugly? Wish people well, help people when you can. Be good to
others. But more than anything else be good to yourself. Believe in
yourself. It’s very easy to give in to feelings of self-doubt and back
down when things get tough, but you have to know that God will not give
you anything you can’t handle.
I swear to you, you are
underestimating yourself. If you know the power that you have inside. If
you know the things that you are capable of. If you know how far you
can go…how high you can reach but you are holding yourself back
because you’re afraid of failing, because you don’t think you have it in
you. If only you know that you’re stronger than you think. You are so
powerful, you don’t even know it. I’m not more special than you are. I
don’t have two heads. We serve the same God. Why can’t you succeed?
Think ladies, think.
And the master suite… my bedroom. I’ve never seen anything like it in
real life…lol. It’s so big, I don’t even know how to decorate it…
And the most grand part of the house is my luxury bathroom…it has a Jacuzzi, bathtub and shower…
The house is spectacular at night…