INTRODUCTION
WHO IS THE CHAMP?
Life is a competition. Everyone in it is constantly pushing against the other to get the opportunity to get something that the other person wants. It’s a sort of game with a price for the eventual winner. Not everyone can win the price, however hard everyone tries. Only one person will manage to beat the rest however wonderful every other person performs. Because the winner takes it all, your goal must be to win it all.
When I was little, I joined my friends to play football consoles at the game house around town. I wasn’t good at playing the consoles so I was always beaten at the first round. One of my colleagues however would play so well that he’d beat every challenger. We’d often call this player the champion. The reason is because no one had the capacity to outdo or outplay him.
One time a young man arrived who was new to the game house and offered to challenge the best that the house could offer. He beat the local champion of the house and accorded himself the exhilarating title of champion.
Life obeys the law of relativity. However good a person is, someone always seems to know how to do better. But there are those who stay above the law. They always seem to know the highest heights of what they do and they do all they can to stay there. They never fall once they have risen. These are the true champs. They challenge everyone who dares for their seat and work hard to ensure no one’s good enough to challenge them. They stay at number one for so long.
It takes hard work to reach the top. It takes even harder work to stay at the top. The champion knows this and works tirelessly to ensure that he stays there at the top. One has to walk his way up to the top.
Nobody becomes a champion from birth; nobody is given right to it. It is a state one has to discover and work towards. You think about it, the benefits accrued, you figure out the path to it and then you walk through the path.
In this book, you will find out how champions become, what they do to remain in that status. It’s good you understand that becoming a champion doesn’t mean you’d be that for long except you keep improving at your champion’s status. You will see why you have to work harder to stay up and how you can redefine your championship status by redefining the criteria for the new champion who would emerge just in case you choose to wane. You will learn to create your records and put your marks on history books.
This book leverages on the experiences of many champions who have sealed a name for themselves even when time had passed and they have long left this time. They left their impress on the sands for men like you and I to follow
You too will become a champion that will be celebrated. Conventions are waiting for you to break them. Styles are waiting for you to rework them. Skills are waiting for you to redefine them. It’s in your hands now, this book.