About this Book

1.1 Purpose of this Book

As human beings we grow up with a natural desire to be successful in life thereby driving us to go to school, get an academic certificate, get a professional qualification and hopefully climb up the corporate ladder in the work place. This has been the trend that is assumed to bring in money, wealth, confidence in life and perhaps success in general. When we look at the world at large we notice that there is quite a good number of people who have followed this trend successfully, and made it to the top especially in developed countries. However there is still a large number of our black brothers and sisters in Africa, still trailing behind this chain of success. A few of these blacks end up employed at middle management levels in most companies or even remain unemployed. It may therefore be concluded that black Africans still have to master the art of creating success in life especially given the levels of indigence in the continent.

The purpose of this book is to bring awareness to the black citizens of Africa about the crucial link between success and the unique life purpose of a person.

There has been much talk, much motivational encouragement and much preaching around the importance of people having to know their purpose in life. But there has not been detail or instruction on how people can practically discover their life purpose or achieve the success they want by discovering their life purpose.

This book has been written to assist people in Africa with a practical approach to discover their distinctive purpose in life, which in turn is a lever to making their lives successful. Unlike motivational talk-shows where people are advised to find their purpose in life, this book actually provides details on methods, tools, techniques and processes that people can use in order to find out what their purpose in life is. The book provides a formula to both the identification and fulfilment of life purpose which are the key ingredients to successful lives.

This book will stimulate one's mind, exhorts and helps to dispel fear from people who have a will to achieve success in life but continue to experience bottlenecks, roadblocks, and various other limiting challenges in life.

The book provides a roadmap about the journey of life and it aims to:

- Create order in lives of people

- Bring clarity of purpose in lives of people

- Encourage people to do what they were created to do

- Inspire people to become what they were created to be

- Unleash the power inside of people by understanding that we have all the power that we need inside of us to create the lives that we dream of "The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world", 1 John 4 verse 4

- Give hope to people who are facing trials and challenging moments in life

- Bring success to mankind, predominantly my black Brothers and Sisters in Africa

Discovery of life purpose forms the central theme of this book based on the premise that, life purpose is the lever to success in life. The book goes to demonstrate how you can use a combination of tools and techniques to discover or identify your life purpose. The book also clarifies how you can fulfil your own life purpose by following the process of combining a vision, mission and life strategy for your own life leading to an orderly, successful and fulfilling lifestyle. The book further shows you how to formulate a plan for your life in a similar way to a plan for a business, remembering that life of a business has a similar life-cycle to that of a human being as both go through stages of concept, birth, growth, stability, decline and eventually death.

This book guides you in walking the journey of discovering your unique life purpose which will then enable you to achieve tremendous success based on the simple logic that there is no way a human being, or any other being for that matter, can fail when operating in their area of purpose. This book is about what makes people become great and successful. The book is about human uniqueness, self-discovery, self-actualization and the book acts as a source of inspiration to those who want to get to their unique destiny in life by discovering and fulfilling their unique purpose on Earth.

This book simplifies the process of life purpose discovery as it makes reference to practical guidance in the use of tools, techniques, processes and motivational quotes that people can use to assist them to discover their unique purpose in life. The book also contains examples of exceptional people who went further to demonstrate their human uniqueness by fulfilling the purpose of their lives.

KJV

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

NIV Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. [Biblica]

1.2 Targeted Audience

This book targets mostly emerging Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders and adult people in Africa that may fall into the lost, the perishing and disillusioned, also referred to as LPD sector.

LPD largely comprises of people with typically the following kinds of self-limiting characteristics:

- Those gripped with fear and are afraid to make the next move in life e.g. fear to start a business which in turn could be a platform for success

- People who pity themselves, who have no confidence and who prioritize on self-doubt

- People who are not satisfied with their achievements despite putting in reams of effort into their business or personal undertakings

- Those who feel trapped in employment and have no idea how to break out into a free life

- Those who struggle to come up with concepts or ideas to grow their businesses

- Those who are generally tired and have become hopeless about life but cannot figure out how to think out of the box to reach the next level

- People who have not yet fully developed spiritual awareness

- Deep soul searchers

- Those who need to know the reason for their being

- People experiencing chaos in life

- Those who need motivation to succeed in life

- Entrepreneurs who seek success and breakthrough in their businesses

- Those who generally want to set themselves free from bondages in life

The list is endless and is all based on lack of clarity of purpose. The...