Wednesday, 29 April 2015

REVIEW OF CHOOSE TO BE DIFFERENT








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.

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