The High-Powered Christian Entrepreneur. Rotimi Ogunjobi

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      being convinced nobody was ever created to live an unhappy life. I

      believe every human being has a unique skill, something that

      nobody else can do in the same way as you can, and if you can find

      it, you have found the purpose of your existence and life will

      consequently become easier to live. My most enjoyable skill is

      creative-writing and I made certain it would be an important part

      of whatever I committed myself to, a decision I believe divinely

      placed after a circuitous life journey.

      After reading this book, I am sure you will want to ask if I

      eventually achieved the financial goal, I projected. No, I did not.

      This is because I started with a goal and ended with a vision that

      set the goal aside, for a while. The perks were equally rewarding –

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      I could more easily fund my several community-oriented projects,

      which include ongoing support to a local orphanage. I was also

      able to write more than thirty books over a space of only nine

      years, some of them for big-name foreign publishers. An abridged

      record of my adventure into writing books, I urge you to read in

      my literary autobiography titled Gathering the Words. I must

      mention that more than ninety percent of my books were written

      after I turned fifty, an age at which most people think their

      productive years are already behind them. I still write at least one

      book every year, living the most liberating and liberated life I

      could ever have imagined.

      Undoubtedly, creative writing will not be your liberating

      skill, primarily because you need to be an extraordinary writer to

      earn any money at all from writing books. Yours could be sports,

      or catering, music, pastoring, dressmaking, teaching, care giving

      …or whatever your conversation with God eventually places in

      your heart. How would you know you have found this liberating

      skill? If it is not something that excites you beyond the expected

      monetary rewards, you still need to keep searching.

      The title of this book may need a bit of explaining. My

      definition of a high-powered life is one that is constantly receiving

      guidance from God. My definition of a Christian is one who is

      constantly guided by the Bible and consequently of God. When

      you decided to read this book, what were your expectations? Did

      you imagine it may turn you into a high flying business owner

      jetting around the world in your private plane? Yes, the little

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      knowledge I have given here could enable you to do that, but it

      will take a great deal of work on your part to arrive at that goal.

      Becoming an entrepreneur is not always about wheeling and

      dealing and making a lot of money and I love this definition given

      by an organization known as Enterprising Oxford:

      “It is not just about starting a business or spinning out a

       company from research. It’s all a mindset or a way of thinking.

       Entrepreneurs just think and do things differently… Being an

       entrepreneur can mean knowing your industry inside out and being

       able to exploit that knowledge to create new opportunities. Being

       entrepreneurial can mean sharing ideas freely and celebrating so-

       called failures as learning and growing experiences. Being

       entrepreneurial can mean simply thinking outside the box and

       expecting the unexpected.”

      What were my reasons to again revisit a book I abandoned

      for more than eight years? I thought initially to reply that I don’t

      know the reason, but that would be quite untrue. I do, and it is

      again purely divine intervention. I offer this book as a testimony

      that all the principles I have mentioned in the book work.

      Rotimi Ogunjobi

      January 2020

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      INTRODUCTION

      

      These are difficult times indeed. Entire fortunes are being daily

      wiped out economies go deeper into turmoil. Unemployment is rife

      and many people are looking to the future with distress. But this is

      the world economy, not God’s economy – because The Maker has

      equipped each of us with the means to succeed and prosper in spite

      of whatever is the situation in the world.

      There are a few things though that we ought to get out of

      the way before you dive deeper into this book. They should help

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