Awaken the Superstar in You

By Uduak Victor Robert

AWAKEN THE SUPERSTAR IN YOU is a motivational book for all ages to inspire and encourage people irrespective of their sex, status, background and religion to unleash and exploit that unique creative potential that God has deposited in them as a positive tool to impact their generation positively, leaving their footprints in the annals of posterity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Apr 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465383143

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Copyright © 2012 by Uduak Victor Robert.

ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4653-8315-0

                   Ebook                                      978-1-4653-8314-3

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter One  A Humble Beginning

Chapter Two  Deep Rooted Desire

Chapter Three  A Planned Pictured Goal

Chapter Four  No Retreat No Surrender

Chapter Five  How Much Do You Know

Chapter Six  Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Dedication

I dedicate this book to four important sets of people. Firstly, to God Almighty for working in me, with me and through me to fulfill purpose on earth.

Then to my loving parent, Dr. Victor and Mrs. Helen Robert, my most cherished brothers, Ekemini, Imoh, Daniel and Uwem. My most treasured aunty Orokawan Robert and best cousins, Sarah and Isaac Roberts.

Not forgetting my beloved Adeyinka Obe and Promise Ajumebor, my bosom friend.

Finally to Lucy Rama, Roy Andrews for their support through the publishing and the entire Xlibris staff, I LOVE YOU ALL.

Introduction

There was once told a story of a 50 year old retired secondary school principal in Nigeria who screamed: I made up my mind not to relent or give up until I fulfil my desire to become a medical doctor in future, on his graduation day. Dr. Amos Babalola Adeloju spent 14 years of his teaching career as a principal; he was the envy of many when he retired in 1992. He said: After my retirement, I believed I had not reached my destination in life. I felt empty. Lots of his friends told him not to bother because his brain would no longer cope. But with a sacrosanct iron will determination and the advice of one of his friends, he enrolled in the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria and successfully completed his medical school. After his one year housemanship at Owo, he set up his clinic and even his former colleagues who criticised him patronised his clinic for constant medical check up. This confirms the saying that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Perhaps you find yourself in the multitude of those that have a desire to breakthrough and you probably work assiduously to achieve your goals but there is little or nothing to show for all your efforts, keep on flipping the pages.

You probably had been deprived of an opportunity that you are qualified for or given up in life as a result of disappointments in your academics, profession/career or business. Every page of this book is written and designed to be a blessing and an encouragement to you.

Are you locked up in the enclave of low self esteem, or bound by the clutches of inferiority complex as a result of personal experiences with others, I advice you in your best interest to drop this book, only when you have read it till the last page.

No matter the ordeal or dilemma you are facing now or might have experienced in the past, be rest assured that you are not alone and there is no problem without a solution. Questions are meant to be answered, although some answers may not come immediately, develop an attitude never to give up, for after the darkness of every night comes a bright and sunny day. In your voyage through life, learn to always pick up something whenever you stumble or fall and pray like the great painter, sculptor, architect and one of the greatest artists of all times who wrote a number of literary masterpieces—Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564): Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

Prov. 10:28a says: no matter the situation, never give up hope.

Age may wrinkle the face, but a lack of enthusiasm Wrinkles the soul.

Rev. Dr. Chris Kwakpovwe

Chapter One

A HUMBLE BEGINNING

The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth.

Believe it or not, before the foundations of the earth were formed, God knew you and he had predestined you for greater works, and he requires that you live a fulfilled life. Although for most people, the beginning is usually rough and tough but for the fact that you come from the past you may speak of it with better and clearer understanding because it is a life you have lived and experienced. God knows both the past and the future, so he knows where you are headed and he has already worked great things out for you.

History has it that most people that have over time, written their names in the annals of posterity were individuals from a humble background. Some were incapacitated with physical disabilities that ordinarily would have been reason enough for them to be written off, in fact some of them were. Others were blackmailed by penury that made them at one point or the other to contemplate suicide, the situation was so bad for a couple because they were not given any opportunity in life. Mind you, these were individuals with equal rights and privileges. Notwithstanding their predicaments, when the world believed less in them, they still hoped. They were ordinary individuals who worked hard, adding an extra in what they set out for themselves to accomplish and the extra dedication that these ordinary individuals added have made them extra-ordinary geniuses that are reckoned with all over the world today.

For instance, the British physicist, Michael Faraday (1791-1867), was one of the geniuses of the nineteenth century. He was born and brought up in a poor condition as