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    Are You an Asset or a Liability?: Tips for Living Life as an Outstanding Youth
    Are You an Asset or a Liability?: Tips for Living Life as an Outstanding Youth
    Are You an Asset or a Liability?: Tips for Living Life as an Outstanding Youth
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    Are You an Asset or a Liability?: Tips for Living Life as an Outstanding Youth

    By Olayinka Ekenkwo

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    Add value ... Be different! Create a colourful and bright future for yourself!

    To be a person of value, you must build your life on timeless truths and make your life count!

    This book can provide what you need to get your life on the road to being an amazing person!


    Are you constantly getting into trouble because of the company you keep?

    Do you often wonder where the time has gone?

    Do you struggle with being knowledgeable?

    Do you want to know how to manage money?

    Do you want to be celebrated and not just tolerated?

    Do you have a desire to fulfi ll your God-given destiny?


    Are You an Asset or a Liability? provides tips on how to increase your value and create acolourful and bright future for yourself. It challenges you to stop complaining, blamingand pointing fi nger at your background, circumstances and environment. It exposes youto timeless truths and to learning from other peoples experiences. It compels you to takecharge of your life, stop living by trial and error and moving towards great success, to thetopmost top!

    After having literally lived her fi rst twenty years based on trial and error with no form of guidance, mentorship or sense of direction,Olayinka Ekenkwo blamed her personal family circumstances, environment and fate for her lack of fulfillment and often wonderedwhat life held in store until she began to read in books that her future is in her hands. She took charge and personal responsibility, and her story and outlook took a turn for the most exciting events. Olayinka is now passionately committed to helping youth create a colourful and bright future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781491796344
    Are You an Asset or a Liability?: Tips for Living Life as an Outstanding Youth
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    Olayinka Ekenkwo

    Olayinka is the founder and host of the “Young, Free and Single Forum,” which focuses on imparting knowledge to the youth by discussions on topics that are never taught in schools. Olayinka has a bachelor of arts degree (BA) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a bachelor of legal laws (LLB) from Northumbria University, United Kingdom. Olayinka Ekenkwo has been working with youth in Nigeria and Toronto, Ontario. Olayinka resides in Ontario, Canada, and is married with children.

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      Are You an Asset or a Liability? - Olayinka Ekenkwo

      Copyright © 2016 Olayinka Ekenkwo.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-9633-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-9634-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016907054

      iUniverse rev. date: 07/13/2016

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter One The Company You Keep

      Chapter Two Your Time

      Chapter Three The Books You Read

      Chapter Four The Movies You Watch

      Chapter Five What Do You Do with Money?

      Chapter Six Some Liabilities Feeders to Avoid

      Procrastination

      Indecisiveness

      Fear

      Low Self-Esteem

      Ignorance

      Examples of Liabilities

      Satan

      Samson and Delilah

      King Solomon and His Concubines

      Chapter Seven Asset Building Blocks

      Planning

      Discipline

      Self-Confidence

      Mentors and Role Models

      Persistence

      Determination

      Examples of Assets

      David and Jonathan

      Joshua and Caleb

      Jesus Christ

      The Holy Spirit

      Chapter Eight A Destiny to Fulfill

      Chapter Nine Confessions for Success

      Chapter Ten Daniel—A Case Study

      Chapter Eleven The Right to Choose

      Chapter Twelve Go and Succeed

      About the Young, Free and Single Forum

      I humbly dedicate this to all the Christian teenagers and youths in all walks of life, and I extend my support and voice to say you can be all you ever dreamed to be! You belong to the topmost top!

      To your success!

      Foreword

      The challenges facing today’s youth are enormous and are amply compounded by the advent of technology, which has in some way become the conduit for distraction. It is often said that the youth are tomorrow’s leaders, but the preparation for leadership begins today, with the inculcation of Christian values, standards and ethos that will be instrumental in their service to civil society and to the body of Christ, the Church.

      But for the Christian youth, it is a continuous struggle to conform to the word of God and live within His will with the constant pressure from the media and their dwindling supply of spiritual and moral capital. They are submerged in a world of convoluted messages—one that accentuates rebellion against parents and authority while extolling immorality and lewd lifestyles.

      With religion failing to inspire confidence in the youth, and with adults around them neglecting their responsibilities, this book is not only timely but meticulously written to provide godly counsel to the youth on their journeys. It integrates vignettes of real-life experiences that resonate with readers, providing unique opportunities for genuine reflection.

      By citing appropriate verses from the Bible, the authoritative source that holds the principles to our destiny, this book seeks to encourage, support and endear Christian youth to their faith when life’s challenges seem insurmountable. The role and importance of wise sayings and proverbs are generously emphasized at every instance, which represents the theme of each chapter, providing truth, wisdom, warnings, direction and motivation to forge ahead and overcome the obstacles.

      By recognizing the duality of humans as spiritual and physical beings, the book appears to mandate education, which in today’s world has become the gateway to success, the pathway to disillusionment and the basis for social mobility. It strongly encourages youth to seek knowledge, acquire the capacity to contextualize notions in real-world settings and make a critical difference in their communities.

      Are You an Asset or a Liability? is inspirational and thought-provoking, and it asks pertinent questions that inspire the Christian youth to find biblical truths in their journeys to fulfill their God-given destinies in becoming assets to humanity and His kingdom.

      If you are a teenager or a young adult feeling susceptible to peer pressure or facing other life challenges, this is a must-read.

      Dr. Phil Tam-Al Alalibo and Dr. Trudy Alalibo

      Acknowledgments

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