LEARNING is a lifelong process and throughout the course of one’s life journey, there are always new things to learn and make life better, improve relationships, live healthier and become more effective.
Ultimately, one ends up with a positive outlook of life. This is just the antidote that Zimbabwean-born Christian writer and motivational communicator Tsungi Chiwara provides in her new publication, #TsuChiQuotes (Moments of Inspiration), recently published by Royalty Books.
The 103-page booklet is a collection of 79 powerful quotes touching on various aspects of life. Subject matters dealt with in the booklet include anxiety, belief, challenges, success, wisdom, self-worth, regret, progress, mentorship and leadership — and how one can successfully navigate their way around all these.
In a world centred on speed and noise, with the busyness of life hardly affording many the chance to go through a voluminous book, this small literary offering proves to be a handy tool that allows one to read just one or two chapters over a cup of coffee and meditate on these throughout the day as they go about their business.
It is indisputable that we live in a contemporary world that exerts too many challenges on people, where many have their hopes for the future dashed and the challenges of today looking grimly insurmountable. Therefore, the need for daily inspiration cannot be over-estimated. We all need that push to go the extra mile when our inspiration tank runs low; this is where a booklet such as #TsuChiQuotes (Moments of Inspiration).
What it lacks in physical volume, the booklet makes up for in the heavy dosage of inspiration. Talk about dynamite coming in small packages! The inspirational writings are short but impactful, riding on the philosophy that less is more.
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Reading through the booklet, one gets the impression that for the author, this was not something rushed over, but deeply thought-through, and beyond the few words of each inspirational nugget are shovel loads of meaning.
Simply put, the booklet pulsates with life, and delivers life to whoever reads in desperate search for inspiration to go further than they thought they could.
For you to have a better appreciation of the value and depth of the quotes collected here, the author says in her preface: “It’s taken me some years to come up with this collection of my own inspirational and encouraging quotes.”
Although we have had books on quotes from motivational authors from Western countries, there is something more relatable here because by virtue of being part of our own world and experiences, Chiwara has some sort of cutting edge that enables the reader to appreciate that if their own can provide some form of encouraging word in their situation, everything will be alright.
The collection of quotes is so wide and varied that it covers many different situations of life, and everyone will have their own take-away from this booklet.
It is, indeed, an offering for everyone, relatable and experiential.
Because of the pocket-size nature of the book, the simplicity of the writing and the cross-cutting thematic issues dealt with, the booklet is accessible to all age groups, and especially effective for young and impressionable minds.
At a time when and in a society where the younger generation has been forced to deal with insurmountable social pressures, the booklet will be handy for them, giving them inspiration as they read it alongside their academic texts.
Indeed, this is just what the doctor ordered, a full-proof prescription to silence those incessant negative voices that often speak to our minds.
Chiwara is a professional pharmacist and author, having previously published the novel, Reflections of the Heart: A Story of Hope (2013) and Poems of Hope: Volume 1 (2016).
Her debut novel was nominated for the Outstanding First Published Creative Work at National Arts Merit Awards, Zimbabwe’s prime awards for the arts and culture sector.