As I have progressed through my life, the journey has been quite exciting and illuminating. My father, of blessed memory, Alimi Onaolapo Oladimeji, impacted my life so positively than any other person. He showed me true love and ordered my spiritual steps in life. My mother, Abigail Abike Aderemi Onaolapo-Oladimeji, nee Apara, was also a valuable source of inspiration in my life affirming my father’s confidence in me and providing deeply spiritual support to me at every stage. I have enjoyed both worlds of Islam and Christianity. My father, being an Islamic faithful endeavored to impart the knowledge of Islamic faith to me while my mother equally shared the Christian faith with me. Until the passing of my father to the great beyond in 1983, I was a practicing Moslem. After a brief interregnum, I became a born-again Christian in 1992 by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal Saviour through the altar call made by Pastor E. A. Adeboye at the Headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lagos, Nigeria.

The Holy Bible, an embodiment of God’s infinite wisdom, has remained my greatest companion to date. God has been so good to me and to Him alone I give all the glory for whatever I am today. I believe in enthusiastic work. I believe in honesty of purpose in life. I believe that I can become whatever I wish to become in life by God’s grace. I believe that nothing can change my destiny as purposed by God. I know that God’s thoughts towards me are thought of peace with full desire to grant me an expected end. I hold this last truth sacrosanct for me, my wife and my children.

As I continue to study the Bible every day, more revelations of my God’s wonderful plans kept unfolding. In all my insights from various management textbooks and journals, I have discovered that, for every theory, there is always a passage in the Bible providing a clue. Spirituality, however, goes beyond religion. Experience has shown that people are what they are, character wise, in spite of the religious beliefs they profess. Some of my best friends do not share my religious belief and, on top of that, they have impacted my life in many positive ways through their behaviour toward me and people around them. Personally, I refrain from judging people on the basis of religious belief.

I believe, like my favorite author and scholar, the Late Stephen Covey, that all of us in this world should endeavor to live, to love, to learn and to leave behind, a good legacy