Matriculate to Your Perfect Degree Course: A Guide to Finding the Right Education. the Right Environment in School & Life.

By Kammy Chibueze

Matriculate to Your Perfect Degree Course is a wake-up call for the many that coast through life to come alive to their true potential and build their true platform for success by harnessing the value of education in more meaningful ways than mere certification. The book challenges us to discover our unique purpose for living and to dream the dreams of our own making rather than end up as mere players of the visions of others bold enough to follow the courage of their convictions.

Also, In the Matriculate to Your Perfect Degree Course
You will learn:
How to find your purpose in life
How to find the right education
How to find the right environment for your education
And ultimately, the inspiration you need to achieve your dreams and goals

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491888933

Kammy Chibueze

Kammy Chibueze’s dream was to become a professional footballer, but he ended up in Manufacturing sector, where he found his second self, the writer within, and the passion to coach and inspire people. He is presently a QA manager of a FMCGs company in Nigeria, where he has immensely contributed to building a quality and safe product. He has equally contributed to the personal development of staff as a trainer, coach, and as inspirational and self-help writer. Kammy Chibueze is the founder of PassionCare Resources Limited, a company born out of his passion for sharing knowledge and inspiring people to draw out their innate potential. The company’s mission is “To add value and to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit in man’s passion.” A freelance writer with Achievement Journal magazine, he shares his passion for purposeful contribution. Kammy hails from Achi in Oji River Local Government Area, Enugu State, and resides in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/31/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-8891-9 (sc)

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Letting My Emotions Out!

Chapter 1:    The Switch!

Chapter 2:    Your Potential Is Your Credential

Chapter 3:    The True Meaning of Education

Chapter 4:    This Is My Passion, My Purpose

Chapter 5:    Now Find Yours!

Chapter 6:    Make the Right Choice

Chapter 7:    Find the Right Environment

Chapter 8:    Dream Your Dreams

Chapter 9:    Set Your Goals and Plan Them Out

Chapter 10:    Matriculate

Chapter 11:    Have Confidence in Yourself—

Chapter 12:    —and Then Have Faith in God

Chapter 13:    The Kind of School I Dream Of

Chapter 14:    A Passionate Appeal to Parents

Chapter 15:    An Appeal to Our Teachers

Chapter 16:    A Message to Youth

Chapter 17:    The Philosophies That Changed My Thinking and My Thoughts

Chapter 18:    End of Discussion

Bibliography

Acclaim for Matriculate To Perfect Degree Course

I have read Matriculate to Your Perfect Degree Course and found it to be very interesting and highly recommended not only for students but for those who want to make a mark in life.

Dr Isaac Yaw Ani

Acting Director of finance, National communication Authority Ghana

Congratulations on having realised your passion for self-development and leading others to self-realisation by completing your book, Matriculate to Your Perfect Degree Course. I found it stimulating to read and very passionate, as suits your topic. I am sure your readers will draw inspiration from your heartfelt ideas and the examples you gave of finding one’s path through life, both from your own life and that of others, particularly in the form of the quotations. I enjoyed reading your book, and wish you much luck getting it out to its intended readership. Thank you for the opportunity to read it and to help you bring it to fruition.

Editor at Scribendi

This was a wonderfully researched and well written book, and I found your ideas on education inspiring. This book should be required reading in schools across the world.

Monica O.

Editor for AuthorHouse

To God Almighty for His gifts and His grace;

to my spiritual father, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, for his inspiring teachings;

to my dad, Gabriel Udeabanihu, the legendary hero of my life;

to my brothers Chido, the onwa and Chubby, the strongest and wisest one;

to my sister, Ngozi, the MaryAnnsistas Enterprise founder;

to my grandparents, Mr and Mrs R. Ikepeazu for their love and support.

Foreword

I met Kammy through the instrumentality of The Motivators Academy—an institution I had set up in 2005 to train and mentor aspiring motivational speakers from all over the country. His commitment to pursue his motivational speaking dream always stood out as he consistently travelled from Port Harcourt to Lagos for the various programmes we held over those years.

Being a motivational speaking professional in Nigeria comes with many challenges, and I can affirm indeed that Kammy has not only met those challenges, he has surmounted them. He has managed in the face of these odds to keep his dream of writing this book alive. And the seed of his dream has now blossomed into the book in your hands today. Such is the thinking that renders its content all the more imperative for all who are in search of a meaningful existence.

Matriculate To Your Perfect Degree Course is a wakeup call for as many who continue to coast in life to come alive to their true potential and build on same as their true platform for success; and to harness the value of education in more meaningful ways than mere certification—a situation that has become an unfortunate national plague in our time. It challenges us to discover our unique purpose for living and to dream the dreams of our own making rather than end up as mere players of the visions of others bold enough to follow the courage of their convictions.

Kammy runs the motivational gamut as he has observed life and living over the years from both personal experiences and learning from several other motivational exponents before him. And in the process, he has created an enrolment programme to which he now summons all true students of worthwhile living to matriculate in order to pursue their perfect course for the degree of life.

What are you waiting for? Admission is underway.

Ubong Essien, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) and Dean, School of Eloquence

Acknowledgements

I never understood the importance of an author dedicating his or her time and energy for acknowledgement until I asked for informal review of this book draft from a bosom friend of mine. It was as if I had asked him to do the impossible. He did not find it funny or inspiring, and that was written all over his face, and the manner in which he rejected it made me feel terrible, and I told him I was sorry.

But all the same, I still give him thanks, for his reaction motivated me to look for an editorial firm. I found an amazing one—Scribendi—which I owe much of the thanks in making my dream a reality. For without their input and encouragement I would not have believed that this book was worth anything, and it was after then that I began to have confidence in myself and in my ability to actually write.

Thanks to some of my friends, who found it a great privilege, an honour, and a source of inner joy in reviewing the draft, to them, I raise my cap! Thank you, Barrister Asonuka, Chika Ukpaka, and to my dearest friend, Treasure Ohakwu, who I fondly call Tgirl. I also thank Samson Worlu for typing the bibliographies and the words for indexing.

My warmest thanks go to Jud Cure, my consultant, my leading light and my friend. For if not for her, the Publication of this work would not have been this soon. Actually I was planning On publishing the book but I was lost on which direction to go and which publishing Company to contact, engrossed in these considerations when her intervention’s call Came in. At first I thought the call was from all this unprofessional trickster, but when she spoke about publishing of book, her deep knowledge about publishing and the passion in her got me interested. At that very moment I said this is the company I will work with and as you can see, this the outcome.

Thanks to my editor at AuthorHouse, Monica O and the entire staff of AuthorHouse for a job well done

My special thanks also to my brother in-law, Dr Isaac Yaw Ani, who not only read through the draft but penned his honest praise for the book content and ensure the book, would get published.

I equally wish to thank my colleagues at the office and the students who did their industry trainings at Dufil Prima Foods Plc.; from them I derived part of the inspiration to embark on this project.

I thank the management of Dufil Prima Foods Plc. and the entire staff for the opportunity to serve them; it was during my sojourn here that I gained some of the experience that shaped my life philosophy and which I humbly share here.

I thank my uncles, my friends, and my enemies, whose actions in one way or another have inspired me to bring out my best.

I owe great gratitude to my great mentor, friend, and teacher, Mr Ubong Essien, whose inspirational message on that fateful day started it all. It was his inspiration that metamorphosed into the book you’re reading now. Sir, I cannot thank you enough because I still look up to you, and I must say, I fell in love with your personality and philosophy of life that day fate brought us together. Thank you for everything. I owe this achievement to you.

To my dearest sister, Franca Ama Ani, for the inspirational words she frequently posts on her Facebook wall, which inspires me. Thank you for believing in me when I did not find it easy to believe I could. Thank you for all the positive words you say to me; it really makes a difference.

Thank you, Mom, for being there for me during my adolescent life, when you did almost everything for me and for your selfless sacrifices during my schooling. You are really a woman plus as our dad fondly called you. The Lord will grant you long life and the grace to celebrate with all your children.

To my younger ones John Paul and Obianuju, who stood in for me during challenges in our family, you are as strong in spirit as your height.

To my aunts and other in-laws, to these my friends Obasi, Robert, Christian, oge, and Godknows, I thank you all.

Letting My Emotions Out!

Author’s Note

Sometime ago I watched the soap opera Second Chance, which is also referred to as Deep Desire (the Spanish word is Ecupera). It tells the story of a wealthy old man who decided to get married to a girl his daughter’s age. Everybody was convinced the girl was marrying the old man for his money, except the old man. The supposed best friend (who was much younger and happened to be his employee) of the wealthy old man secretly started seeing the old man’s wife right under his roof. The young man did not stop at seeing this woman, but he convinced her to gradually poison the old man so they could live together on the old man’s wealth once he was dead. The old man eventually died—but it was a coincidence, because the old man’s wife loved him and never poisoned him.

However, before his death, the old man was aware of his supposed best friend’s escapades with his wife. The story takes on a supernatural turn. On the same day the old man died, a young and strong man in a nearby town also died, giving the old man the one thing he so desperately needed: a body which enabled him to return to life (hence the title second chance) and eventually take back his wife from his younger, ambitious employee, the man he once regarded as his best friend. The import of this story is that some times or rather most times we are given a second chance to life, an opportunity to take a new path and rights our wrongs or possess our possessions.

According to my mentor, Ubong Essien, One of the finest opportunities of life is the privilege to have a second bite at the cherry, to pick up the pieces and start all over, especially where we may have performed unsatisfactorily.

When I gave up on pursuing a career in football, I felt as if I were dead, but after years of searching for something that could replace the emptiness created in my heart by not achieving my dream of being a professional footballer, I finally followed the underlying feeling in my heart that there is a writer inside me. It was a kind of second chance, a chance to do something I feel passionate about, and I was not ready to let go. It was like God had given me another life to live.

Sources of Inspiration

I must confess, I have drawn on numerous sources of inspiration in turning this book into a reality.

First, I believe in the school of thought that one should be known even if it is for just one thing. According to personal-success pioneer Napoleon Hill, Until a man selects a definite purpose in life he dissipates his energies and spreads his thoughts over many subjects and in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision and weakness.

My second inspiration came when reading the book The Success Principles, written by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer, and they mentioned a book by Jason Dorsey titled Graduate to Your Perfect Job. Jason Dorsey was a teenager when he wrote this book, and it took him just three weeks to write the first draft after he was inspired by a man who had been asked to speak to his business class at the University of Texas. Dorsey told the man about his dream, when he becomes older, forty years or thereabouts, to inspire young people to get a good education and a respectable job. The man challenged him, saying, Why wait until you are forty or forty-five before you start to do what you really want to do?

Even though, as of the time of writing this book, I have not laid my hands on Dorsey’s book, the title was so much of an inspiration that I could not avoid mentioning it here. It gave me the means to express my idea that I have been looking to let out. I reasoned that if Jason Dorsey’s book is about the perfect job, then it will be good to have a degree or a master-ship in alignment with one’s calling or passion, which I have termed the perfect degree, which will naturally lead to a perfect and joyful vocation.

Thank you, Jason Dorsey. You are my source of inspiration, and one of my dreams is to meet you in person. And I will.

The third one was when I came across the phrase, Your potential is your credential (author unknown). What a word combination! These are the most inspiring words I have ever come across.

Fourth was when I heard Mike Murdock say that every man should write a book, because every man has experience and a passion about something that lies inside him. And it is said that about 80 per cent of average people have the dream of writing a book; the only difference between being a published author and someone who is not, is the courage of the one to put his experience and passion on paper so the world can learn from it. I didn’t want to be part of the 80 per cent average. I was tired of telling friends and whoever cared to listen that I was going to write about this or that, that I would soon publish one of my writings. And I heard this piece of wisdom: do not tell the world what you will do, show it. Every day I want to start a business, I want to start this or that.

Pastor