Work Hard, Never Give Up!

No one.Is going to outwork me.
You might be bigger than me.You might
be stronger than me. You might be more
privileged than me.But you will
never outwork me.
When I was sick.I still got
up.And put in the work.
When I could not sit down after my
surgery.I still showed up in
meetings.
Standing.I put in the work.
Laying down, I put in the work.

When death stared me in the face.
And pain. I crossed that threshold.
I saw my life flash before me, and I
realized.That yes, I want to
live.And I wanna live because.
I want to be there to see my son grow.
I wanna be there for my family’smoments.
I wanna be there to build all those great
things that I promised to do to help
other people in life.
I work hard.And I will never give
up.That’s what sets me
apart from many others.

I don’t come from wealth.I have worked
hard for every single thing that I have
got.To get into
Yale, To get into Harvard, I paid
myself.There was no scholarships
anywhere.I paid for
myself.Every
single minute of every single day I am
working.When you were sleeping,
when you’re going out.I am
working.That’s what sets me
apart from many others.I am
smart.I do have talent.
But I out work many people.
That is my secret sauce.

And I ain’t going nowhere because I’m
going to be successful at what I am
doing.I’m gonna build
my company to the heights that I
want. I see for myself.
When the enemy could not get me.They
decided to go after my health.When
their words could not cut me down, they
decided to make me sick. But you guess
what? You pick the fight that you’re
going to lose.
Because in my sickness, I am fighting
back.In my ill
health, I am fighting back. I’m standing
up. I’m not going to be knocked down by
it.
That is the mindset that I have.
That has brought me to where I am and
it’s taking me to more places that I’m
going to get to.

I am powerful.I am
wealthy. I am rich. I am
successful. I am hard work.
I am focused.I will
never give up. Everything I lay my hands
upon is successful. Everywhere my
foot steps I dominate.

When someone thought that the success of
my company was going to be dependent on
me being in his accelerator and him
giving me access to the network of
investors that he said he had.And he
decided to shut that down. Guess what? I
kept moving.
In the week when he shut the acces
down, I raised 500,000 U.S. dollars and
got another $500,000 into a
new blockchain ecosystem for my company.
I didn’t need him.That’s
life. The people who think they can stop
you, and serve as your gatekeepers, are
your stepping stones to get to where
you’re supposed to get to.
It’s all here in the head, in your mind.
You never give up. You keep working and
that’s why I made that commitment to
myself.
I will out work everyone who I come
across.I’ll commit to my
goals and my purpose in life, no matter
how painful it is. I would rise up,
no matter how expensive it is. I would
rise up. No matter the sacrifices that
are required. I will put in the work.
And that’s what has brought me to where
I am and where it’s taking me to even
greater heights.I’m putting this out
there for those of you who going through
whatever circumstances you might be
going through to let you know that it’s
in you to beat the situation.

I have beat the circumstances.
And have risen far above where many
people thought that I would be.And I’m
still going higher.
That is the facts.

It’s here.You must have the mental
toughness to not chicken out to keep
on moving on even when the
odds are against you.
If the gun, if it’s gonna be, it’s up to
you.Go make it happen.

By Adebayo Alonge