By Olajide Hamzat
Amofin Beulah Adeoye rose through the ranks of corporate legal profession by turning obstacles to stepping stones. He mastered this ancient hack and trick long before his contemporary had a grasp of it. Like success story everywhere, he knew the journey ahead would test his determination and resilience, hence, he prepared many times to sail the hurdles and weather the storm.
As expected, there were indeed various moments of setbacks and letdowns but he endured all through and eventually triumph in the face of adversity, challenges and obstacles. Right from childhood, Amofin Adeoye knew rising strong in any endeavor takes more than grit and gut.
So, he incorporated more than grit and gut in his personal philosophy. Rising above the waters as undergraduate at the University of Ibadan gave him the cutting edge, and the clear advantage to excel and advance beyond imaginations. He knew graduating with a first class wasn’t enough as the market only value those who bring values. As a value driven young man, it was not long before multinational companies gave him the chance to prove his mettle. He excelled and began his sterling and stellar career in the corporate world. Stomping on adversities and challenges, Amofin Adeoye success story reminds us of the power of dream and aspirations.
In Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is The Way, readers were walked through the brambles and nettles of ancient art of turning obstacles to advantage. Holiday spoke about the discipline of perception. He added that how we see anything is how we see everything. Rather than see challenges as stumbling blocks to success, he admonished that we see them as success critical ingredient and element. He noted that the moment we change the way we see things, what we see also changes drastically and dramatically.
He said in the ancient time, highly effective people train their minds to perceive personal predicament as key to greatness. He added that they see failures as opportunity to grow above and beyond. Holiday advised readers to live in the present moment. That instead of fixating about the future that is yet to come or drowning in the past that has gone, living in the present moment remains key to living a more fulfilling, thrilling and happy life. Holiday’s timeless hack on the art of living in the present moment aligns perfectly with Eckart Tolle’s The Power of Now, Dan Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, and of course, Stillness is the key by Ryan Holiday.
In the Power of Now, a spiritual guide to enlightenment, Eckart Tolle spoke about the danger of a cluttered mind and the greatest impediment to enlightenment. He said the mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. In Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, the concept of ‘Presentism’ was coined to capture the act of living in the moment. In Stillness is the key, Holiday combed through tomes of ancient philosophers and scholars, stoics and clerics to conclude that the ultimate guide to personal and professional fulfilment rests on rising above the various cacophony of noises and distractions threatening our inner peace and bliss.
Olajide Hamzat writes about the various prospect and potential of Oyo state while projecting Amofin Beulah Adeoye as a solution provider, problem solver and creative, adaptive and innovative leader and thinker with compassion and empathy.
