It all started with a vision. With my experiences in life and the processes I have passed through to get to where I am today, I did not want to keep these to myself because I live to have significance in life and to lead others to have significance. Therefore, I asked myself how can I teach people this and enlighten them? And the idea of a book was birthed. The written word is powerful, it can always be revisited and reference can always be made to it so it is not easily forgotten.
Decision: After the vision was birthed, I took an active decision to actualize it and bring it to life. I begun to set the necessary mechanisms in place and the work started. A vision without actualization is dead.
Teamwork and Leverage: No one is an island of knowledge. Writing involves so many things such as editing, technological know how, proofreading and so on. A lot more can be achieved when the labour is divided and you team up with people who have the required capabilities. And so a team was imperative to the success of the book.
It is not enough to just have ideas, it is important that they are conveyed in a way that can be understood by the public to achieve the desired impact.
Setting of goals: For every part of the book, goals were involved. Setting goals gave us guidelines to follow. It also enabled us to easily fish out ideas that were incompatible with or generally detrimental to the development of the book. Every goal set and accomplished resulted in the success of the book.
Research: Research was a major key to the success of the book. It is very easy to make errors and research aids in avoiding many errors and misconceptions. It exposed us to certain important ideologies which people are yet to be exposed to. It also enabled us to make informed suggestions.
Determination: It is without doubt that there were certain challenges but determination to carry out what we set out to do and accomplish it, overrode whatever challenges that arose. In fact, the more the challenges, the stronger the determination. We saw the challenges not as roadblocks but rather as stepping stones to move forward.
God: We owe everything we are to God our Creator. Without Him, nothing can be achieved.
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