The Sunday News
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter
FOR most children growing up, especially when they start attending school, becoming a doctor is usually the Holy Grail of their budding academic ambition.
It is the one profession that is treasured by most parents who see their children in white lab coats as soon as they start scoring good grades at school.
For those few that manage to attain the right grades to crack medical school, it is usually the realisation of two lifelong dreams – those of their parents and their own.
Dropping out, when one has reached that stage, is a devastating blow and this was the case for Takudzwa Mugaviri who had to drop out of Fujian Medical School in China as he failed to raise the required tuition fees.
Instead of allowing his stifled ambitions to crush him, Mugaviri has instead taken charge of his life, penning a book titled Back to the Drawing Board, an offering which he says emphasises on the need for people to become the captains of their own lives.
It is an offering which he says has gems for everyone from corporate leaders to ordinary citizens.
“This book is my first work of many to come. Writing this book was more than just a desire, it felt like a responsibility, something I owed to the world.
After I had finished a webinar back in May 2021 on the same title, the idea I had initially started on in February came back at me. I told myself that I would write 10 lines each day in the same book from January to December and become an author by the end of the year.
I believe we can achieve anything as long as we approach our desires, goals and dreams more like a responsibility and less of an option,” he said.
His book, Mugaviri said, was meant to break the cycle of individuals making plans but rarely acting on them.
“Each year around this time up until early January more than 90 percent of the world population Zimbabwe included sit down and start making plans for the upcoming year.
This is also the time we reflect on the previous year’s goals and usually disappointed, but still go ahead to make new goals nevertheless.
This cycle of making goals and failing to see progress or achieve them has a lot of reasons many of which have been addressed within the pages of the drawing.
It takes more than one revisit to a goal in order to actually fulfill it. It is an everyday commitment and staying focused is a key element, the question that come up is how to stay focused, because all this you probably have heard it before except the how part,” he said.
