BOOKS BY DR SAMUEL EKUNDAYO
FROM BARELY SURVIVING TO THRIVING - PURPOSE LETTERS VOL 3: A 30-DAY DEVOTIONAL
This book is my encouragement to you in the wilderness seasons-the times when you feel overlooked, overwhelmed, or just trying to make it through. From Barely Surviving to Thriving is a 30-day devotional written to remind you that you were not born to merely exist. You were created to thrive.
Each day, I'll speak directly to your heart with Scriptures, personal stories, practical insights, and spiritual truths. This isn't theory. These are the very lessons God has taught me in the hidden seasons-when I felt unseen, when I wanted to quit, when the dreams looked distant. And yet, every time, God showed up and reminded me of who I am and whose I am.
This book is your push to rise. To sow in famine. To believe again. To write the vision. To walk in dominion. If you're done with barely making it and ready to step into fruitfulness-these letters are for you.
PURPOSE IS ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING - PURPOSE LETTERS VOL 2: A 30-DAY DEVOTIONAL
This second volume in the Purpose Letters series is even more personal because it speaks to one of the greatest battles of our generation: the battle for clarity. In a world filled with noise, distraction, and comparison, I want to help you hear God's voice again and see your path clearly.
Purpose is about doing the right thing is not about easy answers; it's about realignment. I open up on the cost of vision, the challenge of obedience, and the beauty of living a focused life. I've walked through seasons of confusion myself, and in these pages, I share the principles that helped me break through.
If you've ever felt stuck, scattered, or unsure of your next step-this is your companion. You don't have to stay in the fog. There's clarity on the other side of surrender, and I wrote this to help you get there
YOUR PURPOSE WILL COST YOU EVERYTHING - PURPOSE LETTERS VOL 1: A 30-DAY DEVOTIONAL
This book is my personal letter to you-yes, you-the one called to live for more than survival. Your Purpose Will Cost You Everything is a heartfelt journey through the truths I've discovered about purpose, pain, obedience, and the price of destiny. I wrote this to challenge and encourage you to stop playing small and to embrace the fullness of what God has called you to become.
Every page is a conversation between your soul and God's intention for your life. You'll find truth that stirs you, stories that grip you, and Scriptures that ground you. I won't sugar-coat it-walking in purpose is costly. It demands courage, surrender, and trust. But the reward? Eternal impact, divine satisfaction, and legacy.
This isn't just a devotional. It's a wake-up call. It's me taking your hand and saying, "Let's walk this road of purpose together." If you've ever asked, "Is there more to my life than this?"-this book is your answer.
ARISE AND SUCCEED: BECOMING THE CHAMPION YOU ARE!
- Are you living life feeling you could be more successful than you currently are right now?
- Are you finding yourself feeling you could be doing more but just lacking the motivation to take the bold step?
- Are you finding it hard to challenge yourself to find your purpose and living it through?
- Are you working like an elephant yet feeding like an ant?
- Are you feeling like you've been shortchanged in life?
- Is life for you like a rocking chair, and even though you're moving, you are really not going anywhere?
If you find yourself answering yes to any of the above questions, this book was written for you. Arise and Succeed is an inspirational book written to help you reach your goals and to make your mark in your generation. This book has been written to help you find your life's purpose and to awaken the champion on your inside. Indisputably, there is a champion in every man or woman.
FIRED UP: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO FOCUS AND CONSISTENCY IN ANY ENDEAVOUR
Ideas rule the world!
However, many people have ideas but don't know how to succeed with and in them. The ones who manage to get started don't know how to stay focused and consistent in order to achieve success. As a result, many are confused, bemused and bewildered.
I've been privileged to speak to thousands of people all over the world about their purpose and one of the most asked questions is: How can I stay focused and be consistent with fulfilling my purpose?
Business men and women want to know how they can maintain focus and consistency in their business to see it thrive and blossom. Young entrepreneurs want to know how to be engage their passion persistently and consistently with unwavering commitment. This is a pertinent concern in a world that is so full of distractions everywhere. While you drive, it’s hard to concentrate your thoughts because of the many adverts popping up around you. If you are browsing the internet, you are often lured off your main goal by various distractions aimed at making you lose focus. It goes without saying, many people are struggling.
For some years now, I have learned the principles of focus and consistency in fulfilling my purpose. For example, I run a weekly
motivational page for two years consistently and at the time of writing this book, it is in its 100th episode. Amidst every distraction and challenges of working full time as a Senior Lecturer, father of two energetic boys, youth leader in my local church, speaking almost every week of each month, and so on.
People, including my wife, ask me from time to time, “How do you do the things you do?” The answer to that question is all detailed in the pages of this book. In this book, I have documented all I have learned as practically as possible to help you to stay focused and consistent in fulfilling your purpose, birthing your visions and bringing your ideas to fruition.
Before publishing this book, I’ve had the privilege of having it reviewed by great minds and the unanimous consensus is that it is practical and relevant, rigorous and imperative to fulfilling your life's purpose.
I have written this book to help you get started on your ideas, stay focussed, be consistent and eventually achieve success.
Are you ready to be FIRED UP?
GETTING MENTORSHIP RIGHT: Proven and practical keys to effective mentoring relationships
Co-Authored by: Bob Alonge (my Mentor) and Samuel Ekundayo
We all experience some comfort on the journey when not travelling alone. The comfort is even more remarkable when our company has been there and done that. We all need someone else to come alongside us to guide us into the destiny we sense deep within. Moses, sensing the magnitude of the challenges ahead, knew this and invited Hobab to come with him on the exodus from Egypt. Hobab knew the way and was accustomed to the wilderness.
Mentorship is about having a helper in our journey in life, love and leadership. To the mentor, it is an attempt to pass down the experience, wisdom and legacy to the next generation. It is indeed a noble endeavour, yet things often go dreadfully wrong. This book hopes to prevent some of these shipwrecks. It is an attempt to bare our hearts, from our unique perspectives, about the pitfalls of mentorship.
YOUR PROBLEM IS THAT YOU'RE MULTITALENTED: PROVEN AND EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO MAXIMISING YOUR GIFTS AND POTENTIALS AS A MULTIPOTENTIALITE
I wrote this book for the multi-gifted, multitalented and multipotentialite struggling to be effective and productive. In the quest to fulfil purpose, many multi-gifted individuals struggle with their many gifts and wonder how to navigate the multi gifted ‘curse’ or ‘blessing’.
In their bids, many have become the jack of all trade, master of none. I was there, and it wasn’t funny. I was praised by many people for my many gifts but for many years I was like that rocking chair, making motion but no progress; I was known for everything and nothing in particular.
In this book, I shared proven and effective tips and strategies to help you become effective and productive with your multi-talents. God was intentional about those gifts and talents He gave you but you have to learn how to effectively maximise them for impact, influence and income.
PURPOSE IN CRISIS: UNCOMMON SECRETS TO FINDING AND FULFILLING PURPOSE IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY
Crisis is a change. Everyone likes change but not everyone wants to change. A crisis is an unpalatable change, a kind of change that catches us off guard. We're often not ready for crisis but when it comes we have an important decision to make.
The world has been designed by God to make sure change is constant. I believe crisis, as with any change, was designed to grow us, to make us better, and not bitter. God creates or allows change so that we can improve. Crisis fosters growth and improvement. No one grows in comfortable times, we only grow in difficult and tough times.
The key to thriving through crisis or adversity is finding and discovering purpose in crisis. In the word of Viktor Frankl, "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how".
Purpose in Crisis was written to help you discover and find purpose in times of adversity, so you can not only bear it but thrive through it, grow through it and come out as fine gold. A knowledge of purpose in crisis, will make you better, and not bitter. When you know your purpose, crisis will not punish you, it will polish you.
THE WORLD NEEDS YOU: LIFE-CHANGING SECRETS TO BECOMING A PERSON OF VALUE
VALUE: FREE
In my generation, many people are frantically trying to become successful. This is because the pressure to become successful is higher than it has been in times past. In our world today, a lot of people flaunt their achievements and share their success stories which either inspire or intimidate those who listen to them. The competition to become successful is quite alarming.
However, I've come to realise the more you seek success, the more it eludes you. True success comes from actually serving others and becoming a person of value. The root cause of poverty is when people don't know the value you carry and as a result don't know what to come to you for.
Every man carries value but for you to deliver that value to the world, you first have to know you carry value, believe you carry value and learn the secrets to administering the value to the world.
The world needs what you carry. There is no one else like you in the world. Your uniqueness is value, your personality is value, your story is gold but you have to learn how to dispense this value so that you can serve your world in meaningful and fulfilling ways.
I've shared those secrets with you in this book that I hope will transform your life forever. When you become a person of value, you become a force to reckon with in your generation and for generations to come.
I believe in you.
30 REASONS TO STAY: SAY NO TO SUICIDE AND GIVE LIFE ANOTHER TRY
VALUE: FREE
The greatest loss in life is the loss of potential. When someone dies without maximising their potentials, we call such a loss to our generation and to the world. I am a firm believer in the fact that nothing should die until its purpose has been fulfilled.
In other words, death before the completion of purpose is murder because it denies people the opportunity to fulfil their God-given purpose and potentials here on earth. Many lives are lost daily to suicide. The WHO suggests that suicide is among the second leading cause of death amongst 15-29 year olds globally.
In New Zealand, my second home, every 67 hours, a young person commits suicide. That is more than one person every three days and about 130 young people a year. At least one in 20 New Zealand high school students attempt suicide each year.
Since I got to New Zealand over a decade ago, I have contemplated what I could do to help in the bid to reduce the rate of suicide in New Zealand, Nigeria and all over the world. As a motivational speaker and author, I believe I can use my reach and platforms to address this agonising epidemic.
This book is one of my several attempts to kick out suicide in our world. In it, I have compiled 30 reasons why people should stay alive and not commit suicide into a book. I do hope you find some inspiration and hope in the pages of this book.
And if you do, do me a favour, pass it on or recommend to others. Let’s get this book to the hands of every living soul. Let’s save more lives together.