with a specialist niche. I needed an enjoyable occupation
being convinced nobody was ever created to live an unhappy life. I
believe every human being has a unique skill, something that
nobody else can do in the same way as you can, and if you can find
it, you have found the purpose of your existence and life will
consequently become easier to live. My most enjoyable skill is
creative-writing and I made certain it would be an important part
of whatever I committed myself to, a decision I believe divinely
placed after a circuitous life journey.
After reading this book, I am sure you will want to ask if I
eventually achieved the financial goal, I projected. No, I did not.
This is because I started with a goal and ended with a vision that
set the goal aside, for a while. The perks were equally rewarding –
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I could more easily fund my several community-oriented projects,
which include ongoing support to a local orphanage. I was also
able to write more than thirty books over a space of only nine
years, some of them for big-name foreign publishers. An abridged
record of my adventure into writing books, I urge you to read in
my literary autobiography titled Gathering the Words. I must
mention that more than ninety percent of my books were written
after I turned fifty, an age at which most people think their
productive years are already behind them. I still write at least one
book every year, living the most liberating and liberated life I
could ever have imagined.
Undoubtedly, creative writing will not be your liberating
skill, primarily because you need to be an extraordinary writer to
earn any money at all from writing books. Yours could be sports,
or catering, music, pastoring, dressmaking, teaching, care giving
…or whatever your conversation with God eventually places in
your heart. How would you know you have found this liberating
skill? If it is not something that excites you beyond the expected
monetary rewards, you still need to keep searching.
The title of this book may need a bit of explaining. My
definition of a high-powered life is one that is constantly receiving
guidance from God. My definition of a Christian is one who is
constantly guided by the Bible and consequently of God. When
you decided to read this book, what were your expectations? Did
you imagine it may turn you into a high flying business owner
jetting around the world in your private plane? Yes, the little
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knowledge I have given here could enable you to do that, but it
will take a great deal of work on your part to arrive at that goal.
Becoming an entrepreneur is not always about wheeling and
dealing and making a lot of money and I love this definition given
by an organization known as Enterprising Oxford:
“It is not just about starting a business or spinning out a
company from research. It’s all a mindset or a way of thinking.
Entrepreneurs just think and do things differently… Being an
entrepreneur can mean knowing your industry inside out and being
able to exploit that knowledge to create new opportunities. Being
entrepreneurial can mean sharing ideas freely and celebrating so-
called failures as learning and growing experiences. Being
entrepreneurial can mean simply thinking outside the box and
expecting the unexpected.”
What were my reasons to again revisit a book I abandoned
for more than eight years? I thought initially to reply that I don’t
know the reason, but that would be quite untrue. I do, and it is
again purely divine intervention. I offer this book as a testimony
that all the principles I have mentioned in the book work.
Rotimi Ogunjobi
January 2020
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INTRODUCTION
These are difficult times indeed. Entire fortunes are being daily
wiped out economies go deeper into turmoil. Unemployment is rife
and many people are looking to the future with distress. But this is
the world economy, not God’s economy – because The Maker has
equipped each of us with the means to succeed and prosper in spite
of whatever is the situation in the world.
There are a few things though that we ought to get out of
the way before you dive deeper into this book. They should help
you
