Hello December🎄🎄, it's been the longest couple of months outta here(missed the hive community terribly). I was so hopeful this year i was going to get financial freedom, being able to afford my basic needs at no discomfort, get a more vibrant social network and more time to be a part of the wonderful #hive community and 
Everything started out really fine and it seems I was going to hit target 🎯 and get the breakthrough but it never came. I was presented with new challenges, challenges i wasn't well equipped to face or too lazy to give a shot or more of the later and gradually l started loosing the one thing I should not be loosing. Hope
I was almost certain i would get a new car 🚗 within the 12 months, and I can tell you now with so much certainty that the chances of getting that done is next to nothing.
How did I not make my first ₦1million this year?
With all i had going and the excitement to chase this goal how did i miss the target?
The first major challenge being the state of the nation,📈 the economic situation in Nigeria 🇳🇬 currently isn't the best economy for a start up business due to the high cost of running the business daily.
The cost of raw materials, the cost of providing services, high cost of living spiked by the increase in the cost of transportation enabled with the high cost of petroleum products as a result of the high cost of importation and the list could go on and on.
This failed system of leadership and mismanagement of public funds, corruption and abuse of public office has brought an economic giant to its knees, while her untapped potential lies in desolation and wreckless abandon.
The 2nd challenge faced is the power⚡💡 situation of the country 🇳🇬. The national grid has collapsed more than 4 times in the last 10 months, the power outage more frequent than before and the bills increased. Power has never been reliable in this part of the world, very terrible in some locality and slightly better in some but never reliable. Which naturally leads to spending more funds to meet production target 🎯.
In a bit to keep my income💸💷💶 coming in i engaged in freelancing opportunities, rendering service to clients. Then i dismayed when most companies won't offer jobs to Nigerians, some even go as far as putting a ban to restrict Nigerian from accessing them, others would just kindly reject you the moment you state you are a Nigerian.
Contributors working on the same project from Nigeria 🇳🇬were paid more the half than other locale(US🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦).
Easy challenge i would say, because lots of people faced similar challenges and still had the bags, why didn't i get the same result then? With this seemingly flow of money, I was convinced I could take on multiple investment projects all at once and it became my undoing even though that itself is a plausible joggle than can be done, I proceeded without taking due consideration of the security of my job, and that I could be put out with an email or text message and back to being jobless. Hope is not a strategy
Mid year the project was put on hold 😱😱, there goes my income, i was out of production for like two other opportunities 😔 😔. Very sad and anxious at this point pondering how i was going to meet my target 🎯?. And this was just May or June, my hope started dwindling some time in September and i was barely getting the meals. Most of the projects i had embarked on had to be abandoned and attention shifted towards other things.
I wasn't a novice combatting most of this type of enemy, why didn't i get this over with? I had to battle all these at once with lot of responsibility and commitment and still balance my emotions, physical well being and the economic backlash with no effective strategy and hope was gone. Hope gone.
I was gradually retreating to myself, no social commitment. My circle ⭕ reduced to almost nothing. I spent most days alone and with depressing thoughts and fantasies. Darkness filled my world, old habits refused to die. I had more to time to meditate in circumspection.
And suddenly it was December and light flickered in my lonely dark room and had one resolution this little light of mine I'm going to make it shine. It always baffling to me the concepts of light🌕 and darkness 🌑 ☯️. But in this thought 💭 the answers came to me.
No matter how thick darkness is, it gives way for the slightest light 🕯️ and if only the light can be nurtured enough to grow darkness can be totally expelled. There is hope again
As the year is coming to an end, i am thankful for the ups and down faced, especially the downs. From it I learnt how to deal with sadness, loneliness, frustration because daily they were my daily companion. A useful lesson i took from all this is Life is a gift and all you have is today, right now little wonder it is called present 🎁. It is the season of Thanksgiving and a lot to be grateful for most especially for life and my friends who have been very helpful in the good times and the not so good times. Every end of year comes new with new and renewed hope. I am Hope
Finally, I am resolved to do it better in 2025 against all odds and I'll be bold to say I'm making my first million naira. How you'd ask. I will highlights some point of my resolution. Take on a project at a time, engage in multiple sources of income, switch to renewable energy sources like solar for ⚡ electricity, take social networking very serious and intentional about the people accessing my personal space.
If you have faced similar challenges or would like to connect for freelancing opportunities to earn some good money 💰 💰 (in dollar) just drop a reply and i will be happy to connect right back.
