Mr Tobechi Okwuonu

Shine Like "You": Achieve Your Goals by Emulating Your Body, the Best Model of Success (Volume 1) Mr Tobechi Okwuonu

The book explores how our behaviors and the strategies we adopt while working towards our goals cause the failure, partial or complete, of those goals, then goes further to show how these failings are unlike us. Here, I defined failure as not realizing the goal(s) we planned to achieve from the outset, and I set out discussing some of the uncommon causes, those that escape casual notice, responsible for the failure. After identifying and illustrating with both real and fictional stories, how the failings derail our goals, I demonstrated how they are unlike us by making analogies between our approach and how our body goes about its own business. I used the analogies to show that our body does not exhibit those failings. In other words, the body is the best success model that we should emulate in pursuing our goals. It goes about its complex goal of keeping us healthy, without exhibiting the failings we exhibit while trying to achieve our own goals. From the discussion on the perils of the failings, with respect to our goals, inference on the alternative actions we can take to counter the failings and increase our chances of succeeding in our goals can easily be made. Although written on a personal level, the main themes of the book applies to organizations and even countries since they comprise people working individually and collectively towards achieving the common goals of any organization or country.