Title: Choose To Be Different
Author: Bukonla Akinwande
Number of pages: 140
Publisher: TUG Impact Ventures
Reviewer: Damilola Ayeni
Choose To Be Different is a 15-chapter book that challenges
its reader to be distinct for positive reasons and always stand out.
The first chapter, building a good name is a pointer to the
fact that a name is a brand; your name is your trademark and for you to make a
mark in life, you need to work earnestly on your brand which is your name.
The second and third chapters deal with sleep and
complacency. Sleep is good but some people have turned it to a hobby and any
little break is an opportunity for them to sleep which shows idleness or
laziness. Complacency is a state of self satisfaction but there is an urgent
need for us to stir our hearts to do more than we are doing presently.
Excellence marks you out as explained in chapter four. As a
result, any distinction anyone portends must revolve around everything he/she
does. Success does not come on a platter of gold, it has a big price attached
to it; this is seen in chapter five with a question, can you pay the price?
Determination has to do with the mind or will power as
explained in chapter six. A strong man is not known by his muscles alone but also
by a strong mind to pull through life by sticking to the tenets he sets or that
which obtains where he is.
Chapters eight and nine are on think out of the box and free
your mind. As human beings, we must never limit ourselves. Hatred is like
enslavement and when we harbor hatred, it becomes a burden to the mind. Make things
happen in chapter ten reveals that those who make things happen are always
propelled by a vision.
Focusing on choice in chapter eleven, the reader is told that
life is about choices and the choices we make today have a lot to do with our
future. Chapter twelve talks about the power of vision and to make a difference,
we must see what others do not see.
Chapters 13 and 14 are
on breaking new grounds and that invisible hand. Breaking new grounds means we
have to open up a new record by transforming many things about us and our
environment while the invisible hand says pleasant surprises awaits you if you
turn everything to God. The last chapter focuses on the fact that God can
change anybody.
A good book but, it may get stained easily due to the white
background of the cover design.
