Achieving Excellence

By Elo Hannah Akonawe

Achieving Excellence in all areas of life; isn’t that what all humans are looking for?  Majority of human beings in the whole world are striving for excellence, but are they accessing it from the right source?

 

Many a times, a huge part of the human race is longing for excellence outside the right source.  Some may have it anyway, but it doesn’t last or give satisfaction and the fullness of joy because it is from the wrong source. 

 

Achieving true and lasting excellence, then, requires knowing where it really comes from and how to access it.  There is a Creator and a Giver of that excellent achievement you are about to discover.  Your life will never be the same again.  His ways are excellent achievement you are about to discover.  Your life will never be the same again. 

 

His ways are excellent in nature and thereby superior to the ways of men, gods, magicians, astrologers, rulers, government, kingdom, powers, and authorities. 

 

We then ought to see Him as the Source of excellence, walk after Him, and use His Laws and principles to shape our own lives toward achieving superiors and lasting excellence in all areas of life. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 17, 2008
• ISBN: 9781467839617

Elo Hannah Akonawe

Elo Hanna Akonawe, author of “Born to Live,” “Achieving Excellence,” and the forthcoming “Liberating the Prisoner” is an author, speaker, teacher, and a prayer leader for her church.  She enjoys singing, speaking, working with the youths, and evangelizing. Elo holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Bowle State University and a Master’s Degree in Counseling from the George Washington University.  She is married with four children.   

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© 2008 Elo Hannah Akonawe. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 12/15/2008

ISBN: 978-1-4389-1385-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-3961-7 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Contents

Dedication

ForEwOrd by Dan & Mindy Weatherford

His Excellency

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

About the Author:

V00_9781438913858_TEXT.pdf Born to Live

V00_9781438913858_TEXT.pdf Achieving Excellence

V00_9781438913858_TEXT.pdf Liberating the Prisoner

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Dedication 

To my beloved father, Enoch Eric Efi, who was popularly called E.E. You were a very dear dad to me. You gave me everything I needed while growing up as a child, and you taught me what it meant to achieve excellence.

ForEwOrd by Dan & Mindy Weatherford 

Mindy and I have known Elo at the Full Gospel Pentecostal Church of Maryland City. Elo heads up the Church prayer group and teaches Sunday school. We read and loved her book Born To Live a great testimony of what the Lord brought her through and can bring you through.

This book, Achieving Excellence, is a must-read book in which Elo tells the How, Why, and Who enables us to acheive excellence in all areas of life. There are a lot of biblical verses, laws, and principles cited to back up this book.

Achieving Excellence help define your purpose in life, as well as clarify and strengthen your relationship with others and with God. This book will also provide you with encouragement and hope for the future.

Sounds too good to be true? Don’t worry. God’s Word is true, and is able even in the worst of times, to light your path to a more excellent way.

Dan & Mindy Weatherford

His Excellency 

(Daniel 2:10)This book is centered on the fact that God Himself and all His ways are excellent in nature and thereby superior to the ways of men, gods, magicians, astrologers, rulers, government, kingdoms, powers, and authorities.

We, then, ought to see God as the source of excellence, walk after Him, and use His biblical laws and principles to shape our own lives toward achieving true and lasting excellence in all areas of life.

ELO HANNAH AKONAWE

Acknowledgements 

The Almighty God, who in His infinite mercy and grace made it possible for me to know His mind about this book. Without His instruction and inspiration, I would never have written this book.

Pastor Bobby Hill, the General Overseer of the Full Gospel Pentecostal Church, my pastor. He is one of my examples of excellent achievers.

Meno Richman Akonawe, my baby. When I told him I was writing this book, he said, Mom, you are going to be famous.

I said to him, No man is famous; The Almighty God is the only famous One.

Dan and Mindy Weatherford, my friends and brothers - in - christ. You were a source of support and encouragement to me in writing this book. Every time we met, both of them asked me one question: When is your next book coming out? I want to read it. That question always motivated me to spend more time in writing to complete this book.

Ryan McConnell and Sean Stevens at Author House. You also encouraged me to complete this book and publish. Thanks for your contribution to make this book a success.

ELO HANNAH AKONAWE

Introduction 

Achieving excellence in all areas of life is what all humans are looking for. One thing that is not known to the majority is the fact that this excellence has a source, and it is an attribute of that source. Your knowledge of the fact of that source gravitates you towards the right direction and moves you to it. Before we continue, let’s see what excellence really means.

The word excellence is defined in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as the quality of being excellent, an excellent or valuable quality: virtue, or an outstanding state. When used in the verb form of excel, it means to be superior to, surpass in accomplishment or achievement, to be distinguishable by superiority: surpass others. Its adjective form of excellent means, archaic: superior, very good of its kind: eminently good: first-class. Also, Webster’s New American Dictionary defines excellence as great merit or efficiency.

With no further definitions, let’s look closely to the key words and phrases used to define the word excellence:

• Excellent

• Valuable quality

• Virtue

• Outstanding state

• Archaic