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#BN2015Epilogues: Victory Stepped Out of His Comfort Zone & Into His Victories

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Last year BellaNaija Features put together an inspiring feature series to round off the year. The 2014 Epilogues featured 10 real people who took an introspective look at their year and wrote about it. This year, we decided to make the call public to our readers. {Click here if you missed it} It is our hope and desire that we will have enough entries to have a story up every day from the 1st to the 31st of December. We have received an impressive number of entries and we hope that you will share yours with us.

We kicked off the series with the entry by Jennifer G and Morountodun. Today, we bring you Victory’s story.

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Jess: Victory, Bellanaija is taking articles on how the year has been.
Me: Ehen, how that one take concern me? Are the articles like testimonies or what? What’s the content meant to look like?
Jess: It’s about how your year has been.
Me: What do I stand to gain?
Jess: Not anything monetary, but you get to inspire others
Me: Really?
Jess: Lemme send you links.

Well you are reading this article right now. This simple conversation above is a nice description of how my 2015 has been.

I remember not even knowing or understanding how I felt at the crossover night into 2015. “What was this year set to bring forth for me?” I had finished youth service, and I was jobless. Interestingly, the favour market (not labour market o) had gone dry of favours to give. No jobs, all the ease I thought I was going to experience once I finished service vanished. Here was I facing the year 2015, a clean slate, nothing written on it. I prayed and hoped it was going to be great.

All I had was my blog, awesome friends, and a supportive family. The year started with me filing many applications and submitting CV’s. First of all, I came out of service with the ‘continue with the career you studied in school’ talk. By the time I carry eye see market ehn, this Engineer was more than willing to convert to Banking, or anything that was going to keep him busy. Oh well, all still to no avail.

You know how it goes, when people ask, “what are you doing now, are you not done with service?” You simply say “I’m basically doing self development, reading some books and listening to motivational messages.” But deep within your mind, you ask yourself “Nna mehn, when you sef go see job na? Na book go bring money, or you fit chop book?”

I decided to take running my blog more seriously, I got really inspired and I wrote a couple of unique articles. I got new contacts add me up when they read those articles. I had a new influx of people in my life. I love people, and I am a people person, so I had no issues with that.
One day in March, I got a broadcast on my BBM from one of these new friends, requesting for the services of someone that was willing to work from home. As a kind guy that I am, I first sent the message to all my jobless guys, saying “See this opportunity o, try it out.” It was much more later, that I applied. Guess what? I got the job at the end of the process! 🙂

A few months down the line, the job opportunity left my hands. These companies always have one nice poetic reason for sending you away.. Hehe.. I moved on. Out of the blues, a friend called me to help out with his startup, it required me working from home as well. I was wondering if I was called to the startup ministry sef (because the last job too was with a startup). I accepted the offer and got busy. It took a lot of my time, and a lot of my mind was exercised. I always ensured that I met goals and I was personally fulfilled to earn the fair pay that I was being given.

I also decided to be more dedicated in church by joining a department. I decided to be more consistent and to not be an outsider. If I truly claimed to be a child of God, I had to do more than come to church and disappear right after the service. My experiences in the drama department brought a lot of color to my life.

I didn’t enter the new year with any notebook containing goals, or new year resolutions, I just wanted to make the best out of it. Suddenly, out of the blues, an idea hit me, “move from your freely hosted blog platform, to your own domain.” I planned for a few months, and got it done (Thanks to my website designing brother). Another idea came too saying “why not write an eBook?” I wrote an eBook that has helped so many people today titled ‘5 Crazy Lessons Blogging Taught Me’

Many of the major steps I took were so random, and how I got to know about them was really random as well. But I didn’t keep a closed or rigid mind, I was willing to explore them!

I was driving one sunny afternoon with my cousin when he received a random broadcast from someone he barely chats with, about a job in our vicinity, and that same day (that we saw the message) was the deadline. Like hungry lions spotting a weak deer, we pounced on the offer immediately and applied. We both got accepted for training, and he later got a better job, while I continued with the job.

I got brand new channels of support and strength from the people who decided to add me up after reading up some of my articles. Many of them just did it as a step of faith, and not knowing what to expect (like what if I was a dragon?) but I am glad they did.

The truth is:
“Many times, people in your life will get tired of you, and get used to you. It’s not because your worth or value dropped, but that their sight became dimmer because of the more of you they saw.”

This doesn’t mean that everyone previously in your life is not useful. There are friends I am grateful for, I call them ‘carriers’ because they are basically there, constantly encouraging you, showing you your true worth and supporting you. But these new, formerly unknown folks are part of the random in the year that I am grateful for. So much support from people I couldn’t dream of, and so much commitment from people I never knew.

There were a couple of disappointments and failures in the year 2015 that I came across, but the joys are greater! This year, I learnt that the tough situations that we all go through, build us up for the challenges ahead, and the glories that we must partake of. There is no victory without a battle, no warrior that hasn’t shed blood. We must be willing to fight and take chances we have! The year 2015 is a year I am glad I got to see, because this foundation is going to get a building on it soon enough.

Have you been very skeptical about new experiences or walking out of your comfort zone? Have you been so afraid of the random chances, situations, that have appeared in your life that you didn’t expect? It’s time to start to take them, one after the other, regardless of how small they may look, or how mighty as they may seem. Will you try and try again?

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment to make a move. There just may never be a perfect moment. Take that step any way.”

I just took one by writing this article that stemmed out of a little info from a random chat with someone I once never knew. Embrace the random, because in the random and the unseen, lies what will lead you to all you have been searching for!

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