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able to write more than thirty books over a space of only nine

years, some of them for big-name foreign publishers. An abridged

record of my adventure into writing books, I urge you to read in

my literary autobiography titled Gathering the Words. I must

mention that more than ninety percent of my books were written

after I turned fifty, an age at which most people think their

productive years are already behind them. I still write at least one

book every year, living the most liberating and liberated life I

could ever have imagined.

Undoubtedly, creative writing will not be your liberating

skill, primarily because you need to be an extraordinary writer to

earn any money at all from writing books. Yours could be sports,

or catering, music, pastoring, dressmaking, teaching, care giving

…or whatever your conversation with God eventually places in

your heart. How would you know you have found this liberating

skill? If it is not something that excites you beyond the expected

monetary rewards, you still need to keep searching.

The title of this book may need a bit of explaining. My

definition of a high-powered life is one that is constantly receiving

guidance from God. My definition of a Christian is one who is

constantly guided by the Bible and consequently of God. When

you decided to read this book, what were your expectations? Did

you imagine it may turn you into a high flying business owner

jetting around the world in your private plane? Yes, the little

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knowledge I have given here could enable you to do that, but it

will take a great deal of work on your part to arrive at that goal.

Becoming an entrepreneur is not always about wheeling and

dealing and making a lot of money and I love this definition given

by an organization known as Enterprising Oxford:

“It is not just about starting a business or spinning out a

company from research. It’s all a mindset or a way of thinking.

Entrepreneurs just think and do things differently… Being an

entrepreneur can mean knowing your industry inside out and being

able to exploit that knowledge to create new opportunities. Being

entrepreneurial can mean sharing ideas freely and celebrating so-

called failures as learning and growing experiences. Being

entrepreneurial can mean simply thinking outside the box and

expecting the unexpected.”

What were my reasons to again revisit a book I abandoned

for more than eight years? I thought initially to reply that I don’t

know the reason, but that would be quite untrue. I do, and it is

again purely divine intervention. I offer this book as a testimony

that all the principles I have mentioned in the book work.

Rotimi Ogunjobi

January 2020

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INTRODUCTION