My journey was kind of untraditional(in the typical kenyan scenario i.e) it happened online.I cleared high school and during that 1 year out I didn't go to any 'killing time' colleges,Instead I started visiting online forums,IRC channels and basically I became a very heavy internet user.I didn't have a computer at the time so the only way to access the internet was through my phone(it was a nokia n80).Eventually after seeing it all,I decided I also wanted to make money online like the people I used to interact with.Today I can say that am glad unlike most of my peers,I knew earlier that the internet was bigger than going to facebook to poke people and like status updates.So with that phone(you may chose to believe me or not)I created simple web pages that made me the 1st and 2nd payment as is in the screenshot below(read in an ascending order).

In those early days things were tough,I had sleepless nights,had to work like a horse,and nearly did give up(that first check you see of $215 which is ~ ksh.20,000 was for money generated over 4 months so technically I was making less than a maids salary working at times for upto 20hrs/day)
Frankly I dunno what kept me holding on but as you can see my resilience eventually paid off.That screenshot right there is exactly my journey to my 1st million,I've already done my second and it's only been 8 months.Am becoming better at this and it makes me happy that am using my own talent to take myself to the top.I made a thread a while back about wanting to be a multibillionaire by 30 and right now,that doesn't feel unrealistic at all.
in summary:
-Keep a positive mind(this is everything)
-A pure heart(when choosing who to bless,God doesn't look at your church attendance record,He looks at your heart,that's why you see very rich 'ungodly' people whom if you look closer turn out to be very philanthropic and very poor 'godly' people who haven't yet unlocked this secret...also here compassion is everything).
-This I came to learn the other day,unless someone shows you a clear and precise manner in which they intend to repay you a debt,do not lend them anything....I've loaned out some ~100,000 and so far I've only been repaid sh.500 so you can imagine.
-That is basically my story..gotta get back to work.
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