They say that life is a journey. Wadzanai Ashley Mushakwe is inclined to concur. The entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker and sportsman’s journey has been full of thrills and excitement, trials and tribulations, failures and successes, ups and downs, twists and turns.
One of the turns gladly plunged Wadzanai down the path of writing which he now proudly walks. To date, he is a published author of three books and has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines. Everybody who reads his work raves about his writing. Some of his readers said that they feel many similarities to his life, while others said they recognise or relate to many of the characters in his books.
Here, we give you a brief synopsis of the three books, namely ‘Journey to Success’, ‘Start by Looking in the Mirror’ and ‘Wrath of a Broken Heart’.
Journey to Success
‘Journey to Success’ is a self-help/self-development book targeted mainly at young people with the aim of inspiring, enlightening, challenging and encouraging them to work hard, persevere and be patient and courageous in the pursuit of their dreams. In order to convey the message effectively, Wadzanai combines stories of his own life experiences and those of other people from all walks of life and came up with a storyline that many have decreed as engaging and entertaining as a thriller movie yet still serving the above purpose. Subsequently, ‘Journey to Success’ is a three-part book that narrates a story about a young man who grew up poor but was determined to change his life and become rich.
The first part – The Dream (The Why) – explores the experiences, events, challenges and the life in general of the protagonist as he is growing up in a poor family. As a result of his humble background, the lad determines to change his life for the better. In other words, it explains the reasons some people pursue dreams and ‘why’ it is important to have a clear understanding of why one is doing what they are doing.
Part two, subtitled ‘The Journey (The Process)’ discusses the journey that the protagonist goes through in order to achieve his dream of becoming rich. It also explores challenges, experiences events decisions, sacrifices and lessons among other things which he had to go through on his road to success.
The third and final part of the book – Destination Success (The Result) – talks about the life of the protagonist after achieving his goals. It emphasises the results and benefits of working hard and doing things the right way in order to achieve success. Also discussed in this section are some social issues such as the misconception that money makes one happy, the responsibilities that come with being rich and or successful among other things.
Start by Looking in the Mirror
“Start by Looking in the Mirror” is targeted at a broad audience covering topics that affect every individual regardless of gender, political affiliation, religion, leadership position or business. It aims to inspire, teach, entertain and challenge every individual to change their mind-set. Wadzanai believes that most people are failing to live up to their full potential due to their current way of thinking.
Therefore, with this work, he uses day to day practical examples in order for the readers of the text to relate and understand. Some of the topics included are making wise choices, changing the way one sees oneself, shifting focus from negative to positive thinking, desisting from blame and finger-pointing, and desisting from trying to please everyone and living up to the status quo.
Just like “Journey to Success”, Start by Looking in the Mirror is also a three-part book. The first part subtitled ‘Reflect’ is basically challenging the reader to carry out a self-introspection exercise in order for them to asses where they are and where they want to be. The second part, ‘Change your Mindset’, teaches on some of the areas of life that people need to change their mindsets and why they need to change them. ‘Take Action’ – the final part – explores how the changes can be made in one’s life.
With this book, Wadzanai hopes that the readers will be challenged to change their mindsets and begin to see themselves as the change that they want to see.
Wrath of a Broken Heart
Karma always has a way of finding you and when it does find you, it usually hurts. It is also said that a woman can love you to death. Now picture this, a serial player plays two women who both deeply love him. When they find out they are both heartbroken and the wrath of their broken hearts is ignited. It does not end there; they decide that they want to teach the lesson of karma to this player.
‘Wrath of a Broken Heart’ is simply a social commentary novel on the issues of love, relationships and heartbreaks. It is an exciting, engaging, fast-paced and thrillingly unputdownable romantic novel. The book is not only aimed at entertaining but also to teach people to be more sensitive and considerate of others’ feelings especially with regards to relationships.
This story is just one example of how people react differently. Wadzanai hopes that this work will act as a caution to those that disregard the feelings of others while providing entertainment for the reader.
Now that you know about the books, go check them out. Wadzanai looks forward to you reading them and hearing your feedback on them.
