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    Creating Your Future: Keys to Recognising, Preparing for and Going for Opportunities
    Creating Your Future: Keys to Recognising, Preparing for and Going for Opportunities
    Creating Your Future: Keys to Recognising, Preparing for and Going for Opportunities
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    Creating Your Future: Keys to Recognising, Preparing for and Going for Opportunities

    By Rexford Sam

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    So much talk about time, but what exactly is it and why should we be concerned about it? The book opens on this subject.
    In a similar vein, opportunities are often spoken about or rather the lack of them. This is not a characteristic of youth or developing countries alone, as some perceive it, but in reality, pervades society everywhere as the book will show.

    No one and no organisation is devoid of opportunities. What is often the challenge is the inability to recognise when an opportunity is presented. This book explains the 3 types of opportunities, namely windows of opportunity, slivers of opportunity and doors of opportunity. In very many cases, there is also a question of timing, so a chapter is devoted to time and opportunity as a winning combination.

    Oftentimes, questions are asked about how to prepare for opportunities. This book asks the bigger question of whether one is preparing for the future and follows this with a very important self-reflection exercise called the Reality-Aspiration Check. The importance of this exercise cannot be overemphasised - it will enable the reader to see any shortcomings and/or challenges in relation to their goals achievement.

    The chapter on “Understanding the Need for Change” highlights areas that often need changing, including our mindset, giving a detailed characterisation of the chicken mindset, mouse mindset, crow mindset, peacock mindset, donkey mindset and the eagle mindset.

    Reminiscing about a life of regret or projecting a future of gloom will only exacerbate a person or organisation’s present condition. The current situation is not permanent and certainly not too late to create a better future. This is the reassurance Chapter 9 brings under the heading “Why it is Not Too Late”.

    Your actions today will determine the kind of future you create for yourself. This means doing away with time-wasting activities and avoiding or minimising contact with those who sap your productive time. Time-wasting activities are those tasks and engagements that do not add value to your life. Chapters 10 and 11 elaborate on these under the theme “Avoiding Time Wasters” and “Using Time Wisely”.

    The last 5 chapters of the book focus on going for opportunities. We find “Life is a Giver of Opportunities” and very often opportunities depends on who is seeking them and explains how to use what you have to turn on the ignition for your drive through the roads of life’s opportunities. Chapter 15 explains the how of “Creating Your Opportunities” even when life does not appear to present you with any. Chapter 16 presents keys to “Winning in Life”.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRexford Sam
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9781999936402
    Creating Your Future: Keys to Recognising, Preparing for and Going for Opportunities
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    Rexford Sam

    Rexford Sam is an international best-selling author and a dynamic speaker. A sought-after social media consultant, he has been creating digital opportunities and valued experiences for businesses, churches and campaigns through exponentially increasing their social media presence and significantly enhancing their brands. In some cases, audiences have grown to over 1000%. With over 20 years consulting experience, his work has been carried out in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Middle East, the Caribbean, as well as in West, East and Southern Africa. His seminars draw from his rich experience and research. The intense insights leave audiences fired up and with a sense of urgency to change their practices. His passion is to bring out the best in people and to add value to organisations.

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      Creating Your Future - Rexford Sam

      Creating Your Future

      Keys to Recognizing, Preparing and Going for Opportunities

      Copyright © 2017 by Rexford Sam

      All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, distributed, transferred or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, including scanning, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. You may not sell it, or reprint any part of it without written consent from the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Published by MediaWorks Global Ltd

      www.mediaworksglobal.tv

      ISBN 978-1-9999364-0-2 E-Book

      ISBN 978-1-9999364-1-9 Paperback

      For speaking invitations and consulting engagements,

      please send email to r.sam@rainbowglobal.co.uk

      Disclaimer

      The accuracy and completeness of information provided herein and opinions stated herein are not guaranteed or warranted to produce any particular results and the advice and strategies, contained herein may not be suitable for every individual. The author shall not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage; neither will he be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information incurred as a consequence of the use and application, directly or indirectly, of any information presented in this book. This book is designed to provide accuracy in regard to the subject matter covered. The author has used his knowledge, experience, observations and efforts in preparing this book.

      Dedication

      This reloaded edition is dedicated to those who sometimes feel life is devoid of opportunities for them, to all who need clarity in terms of a sense of direction for their lives, and to those individuals and organisations that want to create a better future.

      Acknowledgements

      My gratitude to God for His enabling grace to complete this reloaded version of the original publication.

      Thanks to Andrew and Sarah Ekuban of Myth Designs for the cover design and to Vike Springs Publishing for the interior design.

      I am immensely grateful for the impactful messages and ministry of Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Global President and Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), and the opportunity given me to spearhead the social media ministry.

      My sincere thanks to my family - Matilda, Gerald, Charlotte, Charles, Carlien, Josie, Maureen and Levinia for their prayers and support.

      I am truly grateful to my friend and coach, Norva Semoy Abiona, for her remarkable insights, candidness and support.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Section 1 - Getting Started

      Chapter 1 - What is Time?

      Chapter 2 - What is an Opportunity?

      Chapter 3 - Time and Opportunity: The Winning Combination

      Chapter 4 - Recognising Opportunities

      Chapter 5 - Types of Opportunity

      Section 2 - Preparing for Opportunities

      Chapter 6 - Are You Preparing for the Future?

      Chapter 7 - The Reality-Aspiration Check

      Chapter 8 - Understanding the Need for Change

      Chapter 9 - Why it is Not Too Late

      Chapter 10 - Avoiding Time Wasters

      Chapter 11 - Using Time Wisely

      Section 3 - Going for Opportunities

      Chapter 12 - Using Opportunities

      Chapter 13 - Life is a Giver of Opportunities

      Chapter 14 - Opportunities and You

      Chapter 15 - Creating Your Opportunities

      Chapter 16 - Winning in Life

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      I am reminded of a story about a very religious man who heard on the newscast that a hurricane had been forecast to hit the city he lived in, and as a result, all residents had been asked by the city officials to evacuate at once. This man did not heed the warning, saying to himself that God would save him.

      As the storm approached, a police officer knocked on his door and repeated the warning that he should leave right away. The man refused and explained to the police officer that God would save him.

      Shortly afterwards, the storm hit, and the surge flooded the city. A rescue worker in a rowboat tapped on the man’s second story window and offered him escape. The man yet again refused the help, saying God would save him.

      The flood continued to rise, and by nightfall the man had climbed up onto his roof. A helicopter overhead spotted him in its light beam and dropped a rope to the man. He waved them off, shouting back that he did not need help as God would save him.

      The flood soon rose above the roofline, and the floundering man drowned.

      In heaven, the man demanded to know why God had betrayed him. I trusted you to save me, he cried, but you let me drown!

      God answered, "I sent to you a newscast, a police officer, a rowboat, and a helicopter, but you refused all the help I sent!

      Having heard the above story, you might be saying to yourself, A very foolish man.

      I do believe in divine interventions because they do happen. Divine interventions, however, do not always come in an earth-shattering manner. Instead, they are often presented as normal events or encounters in our daily life – just like the different types of help offered to the man in the flood story above.

      The moral of the story is that we all get presented with opportunities to get out of some dire circumstances and live a better life, but very often we fail to recognise them.

      Many therefore unfortunately go through life with struggles, pain, or anxious anticipation of some miracle, like winning a large lottery sum or some divine intervention - eager for a change in their current or worsening circumstances, but never doing anything about it.

      This picture seems to be reflected in every society.

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