This is a collection of true life-changing stories detailing some of the experiences of the author, Godwin Akasie. The aim is to communicate some clues, some information, lessons and principles through these experiences that could assist in making the reader's journey on the road of life more pleasurable, exciting, rewarding and fulfilling. Very beautifully written, encouraging and uplifting, the collection includes, among several others, such stories and principles on self-belief and action, planning and preparation, the value of good thought, the emotion of fear and worry, apology and forgiveness, appreciation and gratitude, pyramid of ideals, wisdom of the ancients, reciprocity and compassion, the eternal teacher and finding true value in our world of change.
Godwin Akasie is the author of the self-development booklet: Thoughts on Self-Improvement (Principles, Timeless Quotations, Statements and Tit-bits from the Sages and Enlightenment Thinkers, Past & Present). He also wrote the Echoes from the Present Past, and Accounting Essentials - Concepts, Terms and Meaning. Other titles by the author include: Shadows and Colours, Holding On, Painted Walls - Prose and Verses, and The GreenPath Orison (A collection of Suggestions and Personal Affirmations). He had worked in both private and public sectors, rising from the ranks to the top level of management, preparing financial budgets and periodic statements, reviewing operations and activities, analyzing and interpreting accounting results, appraising the strengths of risk management and internal controls, monitoring compliance issues, and evaluating designs of new information systems and major modifications to existing systems, and advising on optimal use of company resources. He left the University of Benin as an Accountant and resigned from his position as the Assistant Chief Accountant of the then Bendel State Public Utilities Board, Benin City, to pioneer and set up the Accounts Department of Great Merchant Bank Ltd in Lagos in the early eighties. A Past President of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Nigeria, Mr Akasie left the banking industry as the Head of Internal Controls and Chief Inspector of Liberty Bank PLC to establish his accounting practice, Akasie Godwin Onyemaechi & Co (Chartered Accountants). A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and a holder of a Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy and Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Nigeria and University of Benin respectively, Mr Akasie is a widely travelled personality. He now lives in London though he still finds time to regularly return to walk the coastlines of the Lagos lagoons, where he was first captured by the wonders and symmetry of nature that inspires much of his thinking and writing. His passion includes teaching and facilitating in business training courses and he had taught accounting for many years at the extramural department of the University of Benin, COSIT programme, University of Lagos, as well as in private business schools in Lagos and Benin City where he helped to develop and write the accounting courses.
