It was an opportunity I was not going to miss out on. And so when the adorable Lady Julia Osei Tutu, wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu, Asantehene, got up to speak at her loving husband’s 74th birthday dinner, I could not hold back my love and admiration for their sweet love story recounted from the horse’s own mouth.

I sighed so many times with some enchantment, interspersed with clapping for both of them countless times. I kept saying to myself, this is indeed a best-seller love story of the most famous King of Ashanti.

To me, her encounter with the great King was very opportune. One saw from her narration that she was not out there looking for a partner, more so a husband but simply fulfilling a corporate duty entrusted to her by her late boss at Ecobank. The outcome is the enchanting love story still blooming.

I was struck with a cord of some similarity in her love encounter, though hers was the first for her, I also accidentally met a great and loving man, my second husband, through similar corporate duties where I spoke.

I took away six learning lessons from the dinner speech which Otumfou himself kept nodding at in many parts.

Lesson 1

Never give excuses for a posting or a transfer outside your comfort zone while on your corporate journey. The ladder to the top in any corporate world is not an easy one. Giving excuses to back out because of moving into an unfamiliar terrain with no family or friends could be a difficult one.  It is like the game of snakes and ladders.