Names of people in business and
career today that strikes your heart didn’t become some overnight, it was earned
by their resilience steps taken on a daily basis. Behind every successful business,
there is a successful minded person whose eyes and heart aligns to
become successful.
Listening to Pastor Mrs. Ibukun Awosika
severally about the story of her rising for about four to five times, a
successful woman, wife and mother who pastors at Fountain of Life headed by
Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is one of those multitudes who after their youth service were
passionate about becoming successful. The celebration of her twenty five years
in business made her launched Ignite Ideas contest in 2014, a platform for
helping 100 Entrepreneurs with N100,
000, which Lagos State Government under the governance of Babatunde Raji
Fashola complemented her N10, 000, 000 ten
million naira with N100, 000, 000 one
hundred million naira and many more of her outstanding achievements.
She started her working career
with Akintola Williams & Co. as an Audit Trainee. Shortly thereafter, she
moved to Alibert Nigeria Ltd, a furniture company, as Showroom Manager. It was
from there she launched out to fulfill her entrepreneurial learning by
establishing Quebees Ltd, a furniture company she started from her father’s
backyard, from which The Chair Centre Ltd later evolved.
She was the Managing Director of
The Chair Centre Ltd, a market leader in the office furniture and banking
security systems industry, until recently when she was appointed the Chief
Executive Officer of Sokoa Chair Centre Ltd, a joint-venture company of Sokoa
S.A of France, Guaranty Trust Bank, The Chair Centre Ltd, and some other local
investors.
She is the host of the popular TV
programme, BUSINESS - HIS WAY, where she teaches the business community ethical
business principles based on the Word of God.
She is the Founder of Christian
Missionary Fund, a non-governmental body dedicated to raising support for
Christian missionaries across the country.
She is also the Chairman, Board
of Trustees of Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ), as well as the
Chairman of Intermac, the organisers of SmartCard Conference in Nigeria. (Source
from her website) to complement her live speech.
Reading the goodnews about her
becoming the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, I checked into her profile
to date and I could establish the fact that this woman’s eyes and heart were in
alignment, she didn’t run the race like someone who beats the air.
She knew what she wanted and she
pursued it with focus that cannot be diverted, she spoke about how she had to
jump from one taxi to another when she started business even when she could
afford to buy a car but because she need to defer her gratification.
There is need for you to see
something with your inner eyes; you need to grab the power of imagination,
start imagining those things in years to come for them to align with your
vision. She knew she must not stay longer than six months in the furniture
company, she saw her today from yesterday and her heart aligns with what she
saw, which made her not to waiver even when everyone was discouraging her
little beginning.
If your heart fails to align with
what you are seeing, you will stagger when complains start coming in about what
you see within you. The man Nehemiah saw it that the wall was rebuilt, though
enemies of progress rose up but his heart had already align with what he saw; he
staggered not at their comment and trick to stop the work until he finished it.
Greatness lies in the little in
your hands, it is just for you to see the greatness in it and let your heart
align with it. When your heart aligns with it, you will establish it with your
positive words and songs. Where you are today is a product of what you have
seen and your heart has aligned with it.
Don’t be held down in fear and
uncertainties, you just need to gather momentum, see something, which your
heart must align for you to reach stardom. May you not die as a dwarf, may you not
trade your lineage into this glorified slavery.
God: Her pursuit about God cannot be denied, she still Pastor to
date amidst her tight schedule. You will see her contagious grace spreading
around all her team.
Vision: She is a visioner, Joel said it that young ones shall see vision;
she got it when she was twenty five years. It is suicidal for a young man and
woman, boy and girl like you to keep growing without having a vision.
Dream: I heard her said it clearly that when she will be
celebrating her fifty years in the industry, she will be willing to do more
than what she is doing now at twenty five years anniversary. She still dares to
dream. You addiction to your daily routine to amass wealth for your boss
without having a dream is a catastrophe.
Passion: You can handle her passion when you either see or hear her.
The blind cannot doubt her passion, the aura of her steps are catching.
Priority: She had her priority right when setting out as a young
girl. When a man or woman misplaces his or her priorities, he or she is
prepared to fail in life. She had the priority to build her business first,
which built other things for her. Your travelling all over the world is in your
building your business first, your building lies within you building your
business first.
Discipline: A life committed to a cause is what I have termed as
discipline. Pastor Mrs. Ibukun Awosika has traded a lot of ephemerals for this
her stardom today. Bishop David Oyedepo said “Play boys of yesterday grow up to
become play men”.
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