Foundation for Greatness: Understanding the Benefits of Laying a Solid Foundation.

By Victor Uzoma

Foundation for Greatness helps you to discover the secrets that were hidden in every foundation that determines the outcome of every venture. The primary assignment of this laudable book is to show you;
How to discover the power and indispensability of foundation on every embarked
journey; either for a glorious life or a lifetime project.

How to constitute an impactful foundation that enthrones one as a celebrated figure
through the generations.

It provides an ample safe exit for a regrettable life by helping you create new wills and
dispel the old ones.

It thoroughly furnishes you with the techniques on how to establish an enviable
destiny.

It answers most of your boggling questions that concerns your journey to success,
fulfillment, great accomplishment, fame and generational legacy.

The revealed secrets are loaded with wisdom fit for exceeding results, which are unmatchable and inevitable in our race for a fully fulfilled life with positive generational legacy as a back-up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481707763

Victor Uzoma

Victor UZOMA is the founder of Potential Builders' International (POBUI). An organization set up to help arrest the challenging issues in the developing countries. His vision and love for the developing countries has made him to dedicate most of his time in seeking for solution on development related issues. The author is a researcher, a prolific writer, and bestselling author. He is a committed nation builder and a global consultant on nation building and development issues.

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FOUNDATION

for

GREATNESS

Understanding the benefits of laying a solid foundation.

VICTOR UZOMA

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© 2013 by Victor Uzoma. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/28/2013

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ISBN: 978-1-4817-0776-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900933

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Contents

Endorsements

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

Understanding Foundation

Chapter 2

Types Of Foundations

Chapter 3

Ingredients Of A Solid Foundation

Chapter 4

Limitations To A Solid Foundation

Chapter 5

Foundation Essentials

Chapter 6

Factors That Influencing Foundation Choice

Chapter 7

The Cost Of Negligence

Chapter 8

Signs Of An Incorrectly Laid Foundation

Chapter 9

Foundation-Strengthening System

Chapter 10

The Ladder To Greatness

Chapter 11

The Finishing Line

Epilogue

Tribute To My Father, Raphael Alamezie Uzoma, Chief

Endorsements

Profound and powerful insights! Foundation for Greatness is the book for everyone who aspires to personal achievement and greatness!

—Jonathan Quek

Asia’s Youngest Wealth Coach

Founder of True North Asia and SilverMalaysia.com

Author of Why Gold? Why Silver? Why Now?

Foundation for Greatness—another exquisite milestone in the literary world for those who dream to be successful in life. The author, Mr. Victor Uzoma, a profound public speaker, with his refined and powerful thoughts, elegantly paves way for his readers a glorious path to success.

—Mrs. Manohari

Lecturer in English

Multimedia University

Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Building the right, solid foundation is the gateway to making a global impact. The height of our exploits in changing the world is determined by the solidity of our foundation. Surely, we are indeed the change that we seek, but it takes building a firm foundation to be an agent of change. Uzoma is one of the emerging pilots born and destined to drive societies and nations to their place of enviable transformation. Indeed, it is a truism that the book you are holding and looking into is a masterpiece with keys to building your own right, sure, and solid foundation, which will launch you to your world of exploits.

—Chukwuka Chukwueke

President, Carpenter’s Touch International and

Friends for Change Network International,

United Kingdom.

Author, Created For Impact

Uzoma highlighted often-overlooked ingredients for achieving our personal legends—the foundation . . . those tough little baby steps at the start! And in the end of this practical book, you’ll be cherishing how far you have come and convinced of how much further you can go. Perhaps this is our blueprint for greatness.

—Terrence Tan Wing Hong

Youth entrepreneurship advocate, corporate finance lecturer

Foundation for Greatness is an inspiring and very reflective book. The fundamental tenets of building greatness are its foundation. This book captures the most intrinsic aspect of life: its foundation and greatness. The author has done a great job by elucidating all the pathways to greatness through its foundation. I recommend all those who are aspiring for greatness to lay their hands on this book. It is a sine qua non.

—Emmanuel Eburuoh

Tokyo, Japan

Greatness is the apex of so many ensembles that originate from a solid foundation. The process is challenging, but its integration is rooted deeply in a fascinating base, which Victor Uzoma has graciously described as foundation. The absence of this grace-filled base becomes not only challenging but much harder to integrate new realities for greatness.

The author’s arguments are sound and life enriching, encompassing such realities as uniformity, predictability, controllability, and competitiveness, which create and re-create opportunities for self-fulfillment on to greatness. This is a masterpiece from such a young and promising author, which will reignite the spark of genuine search for a purpose-driven life, free people from confining assumptions and self-defeatist mind-sets, and help put an end to the struggle between work and personal fulfillment.

Foundation for Greatness is another outstanding book from Victor Uzoma. It has all the ingredients that make for a good read.

—Rev. Charles Enyinnia

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

A good foundation is the substrata for any meaningful living in this twenty-first century. Once again, our generation has just received a step-by-step analysis on how to live life to the fullest by strategically aligning ourselves with those seemingly small matters. This eventually enables us to fulfill destiny in grand style. Like a master mason, Victor Uzoma has laid brick upon brick in this life’s journal. Purchase, read, and follow."

—Paul M. Bassey

Preacher, author, business advisor, and theo-motivator

President, Garden of Glory Ministries Int’l

Founder / senior pastor, Garden of Glory Christian Center, Malaysia

It is a well-known saying that it is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have it than to have an opportunity and not be prepared for it. Building a foundation for greatness is synonymous with preparing for that opportunity. The deeper your foundation, the higher your structure of greatness. If you want to understand the principles of laying a solid foundation to greatness, then this book is your manual.

—Colman Nwosu (MSc—distinction & B.Eng AMImechE)

University of Bradford, United Kingdom.

Dedication

Without the undeniable guidance, strength, and inspiration of the Holy Ghost, this piece of work could not have been a reality.

I therefore dedicate it to him for making the wells of heavenly knowledge available for me to constantly draw from.

I dedicate this to my will-be loving wife who is my treasure, for the foundation of our marital edifice that leads to an eternal enviable marital bliss.

I dedicate this to my unborn, beautiful kids, for the platform they are going to provide to exercise building a sure foundation of godly seeds and a wonderful family.

I dedicate this to all those who are aspiring to make extraordinary marks on Earth by executing a solid foundation that will forever hold that magnificent lifetime edifice of destiny they hope to see.

Foreword

Greatness does not come by chance. It must be built upon a foundation that can be traced to so many factors and circumstances, extending generations down the line. In fact, a lot of trials stand in the way to greatness. The one who is now declared great must have overcome a lot of trials as he or she struggled on the way to achieve a goal. Even those who fail to get to the top and make the one hundred percent mark, they can still be reckoned as great people.

Greatness is associated with failure. For a leader to earn the title The Great, he or she must surely have attained a height that so many others have not been able to reach. His or her achievements in office are so remarkable that even enemies may not fail to acclaim him or her as a great leader, a great man, a great woman.

Why Alexander the Great? He wasn’t the only military man who excelled in military leadership or prowess. Why Pope Leo the Great? There are many popes of the Catholic Church whose reign and leadership brought a lot of progress to both Church and state. The Catholic Church blossomed under their reign. But not many of the popes were said to be great.

Therefore, to achieve greatness and earn the title great, one must have distinguished oneself as an extraordinary personality. In the past, virtues and qualities like kindness, charity, good nature, peace, piety, honor, and truth set one apart from others; in other words, made one great. The opposing qualities or vices include wickedness, lack of patriotism, selfishness, extravagance, and odious lifestyle.

Barrack Obama of the United States could be great. Even if his opponents fail to acknowledge his greatness, they can never prove him a failure. The road to greatness can be thorny, and that’s why only a few receive the title. The foundations can always be traced and usually must be deep and solid.

Rev. Fr. Dr. N. I. Ndiokwere

Bakersfield, California, United States

Author of

At the Crossroads—Dilemma of the Man of God

and

Search for Greener Pastures—Igbo and African Experience

Acknowledgments

No one ever achieved anything of value without the assistance of others. Mine is no exception. I am today a product of various input from people whom God has positioned with me to move me higher in life.

To my Creator, Redeemer, and Guard

− For their immense thought of good, divine guidance and protection. I forever remain grateful to them all.

To my parents—Chief Raphael A. Uzoma and Mercy Obioma Uzoma

− You not only made yourselves available as the channel through which I came into this world, you have also denied yourselves so much in order to give me the best. Your dreams must surely find full manifestation in my life.

To my younger brother—Chibuzo Kelvin Uzoma

− I often reflect on the times we shared together . . . how you have never ceased to love, care, and bother even when you make me smile, cry, and fight. I love you.

To all potential Builders’ executives

− For the invaluable support and incentives you people provided in getting a sure underpinning for the organization.

To my entire family

− I deeply appreciate you all for the immeasurable support you have offered to take me to where I am today.

To my very good friends

− Chukwuka Chukwueke for your warm friendship, mentorship and editorial assistance to this work. To Emmanuel Eburuoh for being a very good friend and a tremendous blessing who saw this work in print. I give a nod of thanks to you people.

To my Publisher—Author House

− This piece of work was a product of various effort. I won’t forget to acknowledge the inputs from Rudy Thomas my Publishing Consultant, Lorraine Goldman my Check-in-Coordinator, Sidney Cabading my Design Consultant, AuthorHouse Editorial and Design Teams for their valuable contributions. It undoubtedly gave this work a world-class outlook. I return my undiluted appreciation to you all.

INTRODUCTION

It was not until late 2005, in my home country of Nigeria, at the conception of an assignment, that the realization hit me—Your ending is determined by your beginning!

When the vision for Potential Builders International (POBUI) came to me in April 2005, along with it came a restless desire to not only be among the world’s most celebrated persons, but to be super-accomplished and fulfilled in life. There came a willingness to take risks in order to stay ahead of the competition under the auspices of the new body—POBUI. The underlying aim of POBUI is to initiate programs and processes in the developing world that will ensure most of the nations a place in the developed world.

The establishment of the entity was beset by many challenges. It also presented many personal challenges to those of us involved as we embarked on a journey of discovery that forced us to study many organizations in developed countries. This included the UN—their policies, fundamental philosophies, and developmental processes.

Therefore, in my study for a glorious life and of renowned men in history, I have discovered one very important fact about them, and that is that they all had significantly strong foundations. Foundation is a two-edged sword; it can uplift one when it is well constituted or sink one because of its shallow nature. A weak and cracked foundation leads to the downfall of any structure. Our lives are like buildings, and we are the architects. We construct our personal buildings the way we want to, starting from the foundation and working up to the rooftop before we concentrate on the furnishings.

It is important to note that foundation is a very vital phase of every visible structure on Earth. Foundation determines how tall a structure will be, how well it looks, and how long it will last. The edifice you are today is largely a function of the foundation you laid for yourself in the past. Your actions and inactions of yesterday are what formed the foundation of the results you are seeing today. Therefore, a life without solid formation is worse than an untimely death. When any foundation is weakened, it usually leads to the sudden wreckage of the building.

At the end of your existence, what makes your presence known and felt in society are your impact on the human community, the lives you affected positively, the volume of your bank balance, your possessions, who you knew, and who you associated with. These are what sum up your legacy as an individual.

Every mighty flame is initiated by a simple tiny spark. Without the little spark, the mighty flame becomes impossible. A bad beginning makes for a bad ending. I understood that every destiny that is to become renowned in this world begins when conscious efforts are made to build a well-planned and solid base. In the field of sports, when you start badly, there is a wider margin chance of ending poorly.

Also, in the world of female fashion, the foundation garment is the undergarment that a woman wears to give shape to the contours of her body. So, the foundation garment is what brings out the beauty and shape of the clothing worn outside as well as the person who is wearing it. Likewise, the setup