Kojo Yankson launches motivational book

Kojo Yankson, ace broadcast journalist and host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, has finally launched a compilation of his daily thought-provoking and motivational messages.

The book titled “Messages from the Morning Man,” features over 60 of the acclaimed motivational messages delivered on Joy’s Super Morning Show, which have become the choice of many who wish to start their day positively.

Kojo Yankson noted that there was the need to compile his morning motivational messages, since they had always drawn positive response from listeners, but were never available in any material form.

By putting it into writing, he hopes not only to immortalize the messages and to give them greater reach, but to constantly inspire others to achieve.

An excerpt from the book recounts the interesting experience of a then 10-year old Kojo Yankson in a butterfly farm at Stratford-upon-Avon:

People in the butterfly farm were watching butterflies emerge from their cocoons, but Kojo always happened to miss the defining moment. A frantic Kojo finally saw a low-hanging cocoon wriggle and knelt closer to see.

When after a while the butterfly could not burst free, he decided to help by delicately cutting the cocoon open. A butterfly with shrivelled wings that could not fly came out and died moments later.

It was then that the tour guide revealed Kojo’s mistake: a butterfly is not ready to fly until its wings are strong enough to break its own cocoon. A butterfly is never ready for the world outside until it completes this first struggle.

From this experience, he draws the lesson that it is so with life. If life is a struggle, then one is still in their cocoon, not yet ready for the many blessings outside and still in need of the strength that the struggle provides.

“I have realized that one of the side effects of a lack of inspiration is that people accept anything else. Anything else you give a person instead of inspiration, they latch on to it.” The author said on the need for motivation.

Messages from the morning man have been endorsed by Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communications, who said at its launch: “You will find yourself in it.”