Olaogun charts life’s path in My Womb

Olaogun’S My Womb is a thought-provoking essay on the importance of living a life with goals, targets, and direction and charting a course on getting to that direction. The book is a refreshing reality checker in a world full of lost purpose and superficial values.

Olaogun uses the womb as a metaphor to convey a message. To her, the womb is a special organ of the body, which grows, nurtures and sustains the foetus to maturity and ready for outside world.

According to her, everyone has that figurative womb to nurture something, birth greatness and achieve his or her destiny. The book, which is made up of eight chapters, examines critical factors and steps that are central to this transformation.

Many suffer through identity crises and fail the first test of self-discovery. This has led many to only follow others or copy them shamelessly.

The author examines the problem of identity crisis and forces the reader to ask critical questions that can lead to self-discovery. Talking about how to identify oneself, Olaogun said individuals must ask the questions of “what do you do, why do you do it, when do you do it, how do you do it, where do you do it and who is it done for.”

The author, in the second chapter, focuses on the discovery of gifts, pointing out that there is a place for gift identification after the discovery of self.

Using examples from the Holy Bible, Olaogun highlights the importance of discovering an individual’s gift, noting that what each person carries is unique and is what can make the person different and highly sought after.

Without the first two stages, the third stage, which focuses on the pursuit of set goals, may be impossible. The author focuses on the importance of setting goals to go far in life, saying that what individuals pursue mainly determines how fast and how far they will go in the pursuit of their greatness. Central to this is having passion and a clear vision to pursue and at the same time, not allowing a negative worldview to affect their aspirations.

The author, however, underscores the need to understand the requirement to achieve your goal, the individual’s readiness to pay the sacrifice, follow a pathway and take cognisance of limitations.

Olaogun, however, puts greatness that individuals pursue in perspective. To her,
it means making profitable use of potentials, strengths and endowments as a blessing to oneself, the generation and God.

The author, in chapter five, discusses the essential ingredients of greatness. She examines the desire and passion that drive individuals to put efforts into something. She discusses the direction to follow, the effort put in and the discipline enforced on self to make a difference.
She also talks about dependence on God, one’s determination, decisiveness, confidence, consistency and character to reach this height.

Olaogun believes self-evaluation is an essential key to achieving life’s goal. According to her, there must be self-evaluation to check where an individual is coming from, where he is and heading to. The author notes that three things are crucial to consider in this regard, namely your past, present and future. This, she said, would greatly impact where you’re heading to.

The writer, however, warns about potential minefields on the road to greatness. Olaogun identifies the choices we make and how we make those decisions as important. She talks about how individuals view and handle money, follow rules, maintain their health, cling to past successes or allow failure to weigh them down as roadblocks on their journey.

Others include mistakes, iniquity, secrecy, comfort, wrong act, wrong risk, taking rest at an inappropriate time, ignorance, wrong association, greed and excuse.

In the final chapter, Olaogun emphasises on factors that can hinder greatness. She talks about laziness, allowing distractions, fear, friends, lack of confidence, poor time management, impact of past events, poor preparation, careless action and lack of patience.

In conclusion, Olaogun submits that like the womb, the actual time a man will be successful may not be certain, but so far the vision is not aborted and progress is being made constantly, the vision will be born successfully.