Treasure: Personal Guide to an Inspired Life

By Chibuike E. Wogu

In this phenomenal text, Chibuike E. Wogu has outlined truths and suggested techniques to aid you in living your dreams now and to achieve great and lasting success. He has written this book to you not as a onetime event, but through persistent practice to self-mastery of the techniques contained in it, you will be able to achieve your goals, whatever they are. These techniques will help restore your dreams and make them real, get you to understand how to discover the silver lining in every frustration, setback, challenge that may have up until now hindered you from realizing your dreams and aspirations, and launch you into your winning realm of endless possibilities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512727517

Chibuike E. Wogu

Chibuike E. Wogu is an entrepreneur and has been providing coaching services for entrepreneurs for over four years. He writes inspirational articles with the sole purpose of inspiring people to begin living their dreams. His educational background in business, marketing, and theology has given him a broad base from which to approach his topics of interest. His articles focus on using the persuasive power of metaphors to communicate the lessons he’s learned and to help people tap into their dormant, unbounded potentials to achieve greatness in major areas of their lives—but never at the expense of providing an entertaining read. Chibuike believes you’ve got brilliance inside of you, if you’re willing to let yourself loose to live your best life now. Learn more about how Chibuike’s inspirational articles could help you make progress toward your creative goals, whatever they are, by visiting his blog at CEinspired.com. He pursues creative tasks all of the time. Every Monday through Friday, he publishes a new article on CEinspired.com and displays creativity as a writer. Chibuike resides in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, and he enjoys cycling and watching basketball.

Book preview

INTRODUCTION

What Makes Men Tick

We all have goals and dreams that we want to see achieved. We believe we can make a difference and contribute to the world through those dreams by positively impacting the lives of people. Yet, those dreams for many of us have been shrouded in the frustrations, setbacks, challenges and daily routines of life that we no longer see any possibility for us or any reason to try anymore to accomplish them.

Every man and woman has the capacity to become great. We all utilize the same 24 hours a day, drink the same kind of water, breathe the same kind of air and enjoy the same vast abundance of the natural resources that abound in the earth. Then the question is, How is it that some men become great while others don’t? How come some men become masters while others serve?

The day that my life changed was the day I began asking myself these self-examining and life transforming questions. I began searching for the answers to what really made men great. Is it that they had all resources to achieve lasting success at their disposal? Or Is it because they had the right relationships at the outset? Or was it because they were raised with a silver spoon?

Just recently, I had the privilege of sharing these thought provoking questions with one of my suppliers, who provides the services of a freight forwarder and he was as puzzled as I was the first time I thought about them.

Through my research, I have found these weren’t what made men truly great, to imprint their names in the sands of time. I went deeper in my search and I made a remarkable discovery. I found that true tenacity towards a cause, desire or dreams they believed in was what made men and women alike, tick. True tenacity towards a cause they felt so passionate about and believed strong enough in (even in the face of daunting setbacks, challenges and seemingly failures situations) was what made their cause, desires, dreams, goals and aspirations have no other option but to materialize.

The truly great characters that I have studied, men and women who have positively touched the lives of many, right from William Clement Stone to Jack Canfield, to Anthony Robbins, to Thomas Edison, to Mother Theresa, to Oprah Winfrey, to Pastor Nick Vujicic, to preachers, to teachers and so many other great people that have walked the face of the earth, all of these characters at their outset didn’t have all the physical and material resources to achieve the kind of inspiring lives they lead. All what they truly needed was within and they understood the power they bore of their capacity to bring to reality whatever it is they had ever dared to dream about or imagine of their lives through an unwavering power of believe and tenacious persistency.

Imagine if all of us lived our lives at our full potential, living our dreams, what a much more beautiful world, there will be. We could do anything, be anything and have anything we truly desire. There is no place we cannot go, there is no challenge that will be insurmountable, no barrier will be unbreakable, and no negative situation will be unchangeable.

You have all it takes within you and through the words in this book, you will begin to find unlimited resources that abound around and within you, which may have eluded you that will help you begin to live your dreams, because that is my desire, only let yourself loose to live your wildest dreams now.

The quest of TREASURE is to restore your dreams and make them real, to get each of us to understand how to discover the silver lining in every frustrations, setbacks and challenges that may have up until now hindered you from realizing your dreams and aspirations, and launch you into to your winning realm of endless possibilities.

Chapter 1

BE YOUR BEST MOTIVATION

At some point in your life’s journey, you will come to realize that other people’s lives may not motivate you enough to keep going than your own very life. Developing yourself to be your own motivation will at some point be the factor that might determine if you stay long enough on your life’s goals and dreams in the face of challenges and setbacks.

You cannot continue throughout your life’s journey to drink from the cup of motivation of your mentors and role models but you can choose to develop yourself enough and fill yourself enough to be able to motivate yourself and come to an overflow of motivation that other people can drink from and stay motivated. – CHIBUIKE E. WOGU

This truth helps put you in a state of self-awareness and builds the desire in you to develop yourself to be a role model that other people will want to follow in his steps.

Most people I have interacted with on this topic have always thought it to be such a ‘big shoe’ to wear but while you may be thinking the same, I want to bring you to the understanding that it always seems impossible until it is done.

Being your own best motivation has all to do with persistent and conscious practice of all you have learnt so far in your life’s journey. We must be doers and not only hearers. It is important you understand that doing is never a onetime event it is a continuous process to mastery.

Persistent practice of your life’s lessons in your daily life’s journey does one amazing thing for you, it literally helps you develop a ‘tough skin’ to intelligently face all challenges and setbacks and emerge a better person.

By developing and growing this trait, you begin to develop a well of motivation that will eventually yield to an overflow that others can drink from and stay motivated on their own life’s journeys.

Every successful individual today, who is now a motivation to our world was at some point in their lives drinking from the overflow of motivation of successful individuals before them until they had enough. They understood the importance of being their own motivation and developed themselves until they could come to a point of overflow of motivation where others could drink from and stay motivated.

Jack Canfield once shared a remarkable story about his relationship with his mentor, William Clement Stone. Even before