Lovely people, welcome to November, the month of my birth and the month of our Motivators International Youth Summit. It’s going to be a super-loaded month. Many times, people wonder why I am a Motivator. So recently, I read the story of John Kennedy Toole and this story will tell you why I am a Motivator.
John Kennedy Toole was a writer who took quality time to write the amazing book, A Confederation of Dunces. At the time he finished this book, he was 31 years old. He was bursting with life and laughter and the prospects that lay ahead of this manuscript could only be imagined. Excitement, fulfillment, everything lay rumbling happily in his belly.
When he began searching for a publisher who will believe in this proud piece of work, no one believed in it. Days chased nights and weeks turned to months. With each passing day, his frustration increased. After several failed attempts, he did the worst thing a discouraged soul would do, he took his own life.
Well, after Toole's death, his mum found a coffee-stained manuscript which her son had concluded before his death. Mrs Toole took it to a College professor who confirmed that this piece of work was genius. And he recommended it to a publisher. So eleven years after Toole's death, his book was published behind his back through the doggedness of his mum and this book later went on to win the much coveted Pulitzer Prize in America.
This got me thinking, if only someone had believed in Mr Toole, if only someone had encouraged him, maybe he would have held on to some flickering light when he got the end of his hope tunnel. And this is why I am a Motivator, to help someone with some light to see the staircase of their next level, to help another see possibility where there is gloom, to give one person reason to believe in the beauty of their dreams, to help young people generate business solutions to poverty.
You see, when Mr Toole died, life went on, like nothing happened. If you die because your life is currently in a maze of difficulties, life will go on and you will be successfully forgotten. And if you don't have a manuscript like Toole had, which will speak for you when you're gone, people will forget you as fast as they forget an empty bottle of coke after they've drained its liquid life. So don't choose suicide, choose life. Believe in yourself. You are beautiful beyond measure. God has made you with so much wealth within you.
So at Motivators International, we inspire solutions that help your dreams come alive, we partner with God to mine beauty out of your ashes and help you maximize the deep seated gold you never knew was there. Would you like to join us? We're currently in Abuja and Port Harcourt and coming up with our Lagos presence.
Well, if you're a young person, from the ages of 15 to 40, we're inviting you to our Motivators International Youth Summit, holding in Abuja on 28th November, 2015 at Hotel de Horizon, Wuse 2, Abuja by 10am. The theme is Young People in Nation Building; The Power of Synergy.
I and the Motivators family look forward to connecting with you. To join Motivators, you can fill this online form to follow all our updates.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-o4CMAw3t_FI9-yF9BIuDwcBkVW_49n1z25xlYkJyVM/viewform
Best Regards,
D-Motivator.
