“..The problem is not with the opportunities, it is with our ability or inability to receive what life presents
at any given time. No matter where you live on this planet, there are always opportunities to make a
difference and add your quota to human development …”
This book is packed to the rafters with so many powerful statements, it was difficult to choose a stand-
out one, frankly!
But the above perhaps more than most, encapsulates the spirit of the text, form and message of this
incredibly motivational book.
Reading this book was a true rollercoaster ride – with all its attendant emotional ranges taking me all the
way from challenge to exhilaration, and back again, with gusto and chutzpah!
But what strikes the most is the very clever, immensely powerful perspectives the author brings to the
appreciation of challenges; she flips it from one of powerlessness, maybe hopelessness, to one
opportunity, and hope.
Then goes further to give useful insights on concrete practical baby steps that anyone can apply to getting
them from the plains of despair and self-pity to the mountaintop of action, success and power.
In many ways the book speaks to us about the big questions of mortality and what impact our short
sojourn, when it is all over, will have made in the time we were here; what problem- however little- would
we have solved for one individual, a few individuals…or for humanity.
The author very successfully weaves a golden thread through the notions of powerlessness because of
our environment, to huge power, despite our environment and circumstances in a way that causes deep
reflection in the mind of the reader whilst giving clarity, focus and encouragement.
I find that this Book with its unyielding wisdoms, metaphors, and anecdotes would be an immensely useful
companion for the youth, and upcoming, and great encouragement for the not-so-young who has found
perhaps that after so many disappointments and trials, has had the spring in their steps fading a little….
“Are you slumbering through life..”?
Overall…this book is an inspirational revelation spanning the historical, philosophical and the literary
inspiration, and managing at once to also be an inspired call to action to each and every one of us to
indeed wake up from our various Slumber states, so we can in our own small way, within our spheres of
influence and circles of friendship and kinship, leave a mark so that when we do finally go to our final
eternal slumber, we will have left behind a legacy of some sort.
This book is in essence a manuscript for living a life truly of fulfillment.
-Conrad Ononeme
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