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Find out what happened right after this photo was snapped in the Chapter entitled, "Your True Self Portrait" This book is about achieving more than you ever thought you could. It is about having more than you ever thought you should. It will help you become – and remain – your better Self. This book is your guide to manifesting each of your worthy aspirations. It will make you unstoppable in living the life you’ve always wanted. You will be able to accomplish any goal and possess anything that is worthy of your better Self. Prepare to meet your better Self in the pages of this book. You’ll be amazed by what you will do from that moment on! The following was sent to me by a friend who knew of my musical aspirations. My record album, "Horizonless Halls" appears as a top billing. Not bad to be wedged between Garth Brooks and Kenny Rogers! It gives me a visual stimulus to keep on playing and singing.  Aspire to Your
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 “Your Better Self” is your guide to manifesting your worthy aspirations. It reveals the inner resources available to you right now that will help you make them real. It offers uplifting and motivational content designed to move you immediately in the direction of your waking dreams. If you’ve ever wanted to accomplish more, be more confident, worry less, overcome your fears and experience more peacefulness in your life, then this book is for you. It provides specific and practical ways to get in touch with your better Self – and to help others become their better Selves. This book will make you unstoppable in the pursuit of the life you’ve always wanted to live. It will help you accomplish any goal and possess anything that is worthy of your better Self. By the end of this book, any negativity in your mind or hopelessness in your heart will vanish. Then you’ll experience the power of personal wholeness and discover opportunities for achievement you never thought possible. Then your life will take on new meaning and deeper significance. Then you’ll be your better Self. Order Now!
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"Your Better Self: A
Simple Guide to Where You Want to Be"
The Promise of This Book Do you want your life to be better but don’t know what to do or where to begin? This book will guide you to your better Self. Why your better Self and not your best Self? “Best” presumes an upper limit to your capabilities. “I did my best” is often used as an excuse for not doing any better. Whatever you believe your best is, it is merely a self-imposed restriction on what you think you can achieve. This book is about doing better than your best. It is about resetting your internal regulator so that your personal and professional achievement can exceed what you previously thought was possible or permissible. You’ll be shown how to call up resources you didn’t know you had to help you foil your fears, triumph over your troubles and diminish your distresses. This great store of potential comprises your better Self that offers exactly what is needed at the precise moment you require in order to fulfill your life’s true purpose. This book will help you properly set what you believe you can – and should – be, do and have in your life. It will assist you to live a better life than you ever thought you could. Your better Self defies definition. It resists being reduced to verbal expression and refuses to be confined by any language. Therefore, this guide is less descriptive and more experiential in its approach, sharing many stories and ideas about how you can get to – and remain in – your better Self. No one will have to tell you when you get there. You’ll know it instinctively. The author Franz Kafka commented, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” This book provides sharp tools that will help you chisel out your better Self from the frozen parts of your potential. By reading this book, your better Self will quickly emerge from the shadows it has lived in for most of your life. You will experience a release from long-held self-doubt, insecurity and any sense of unworthiness to receive anything better in your life. You will know how to move confidently into success, abundance, peacefulness and joy. This book will help you experience your future now by introducing you to the wealth of possibilities at your command for a life overflowing with everything you’re truly worthy of. You will learn to manifest the motto of your better Self: “The best is soon to come!” Out of the soil of your soul will grow a wholeness that unites the apparent fragmentation of your current reality. Every part of you will be woven into a tapestry of truth about who you really are. I have designed the contents to engage your mind and your heart. Some chapters will touch your heart more than appeal to your mind. Others will cause you to think more than feel. But my intention is that they all will help you clearly recognize and fully experience your better Self. Ready? Committing to Your Journey Worthy aspirations beckon your better Self. Worthy aspirations seek improvement in yourself and others. Unlike mere inclinations to pursue pleasurable activities, they comprise the deep, soulful yearning to experience something better – more fulfilling – in your life. But if you perceive yourself as being unworthy of them, your worthy aspirations won’t tug at your heart and stimulate your thoughts enough to compel you to act. The first step toward your better Self is to honor your worthy aspirations as healthy prophets of a future you fully deserve. Early in high school, a friend of mine expressed his aspiration to be an artist. Instead of mindlessly scratching swirls and stick figures, he perfected his art by drawing portraits of the teachers. They were stunningly life-like. I ran into him many years later and asked about his art. He told me that “life had gotten in the way” and that he had not done much with it. But he quickly added that he had just taken a job teaching art to high school students. “You know the first thing I’m going to tell my students?” he said excitedly. Not waiting for me to respond, he continued, “I’m going to tell them, ‘What you want to be, is the art you see. Paint it out! Draw it out! Sculpt it out! Act it out! Sing it out! Dance it out! You are the art!’” Your better Self stirs when you’re moving toward manifesting your worthy aspirations. Manifesting a spirit in line with your worthy aspirations often requires thinking and acting in ways that can be uncomfortable. To think or do anything that is different from what you’re accustomed to will require commitment. While it is true that commitment precedes any great achievement as a vital ingredient of turning aspirations into reality, it can only grow strong as the result of the many little decisions that are made in service of accomplishing a goal. Once you take your first steps toward your worthy aspirations, commitment increases. Setting the goal to “lose weight” or “get into shape” requires commitment to changing the ways you normally think and act. It means doing something you’re probably not used to doing, like going to the gym. Choosing to go again to the gym stems from the many little decisions made moment-by-moment that in their totality comprise your continuing commitment to achieving your goal. Your commitment to your goals, both before and while pursuing them, empowers you to manifest your worthy aspirations. Commitment is also necessary to change anything about yourself you have come to hold dear. S. I. Hiakawa wrote, “The basic purpose of all human activity is the protection, the maintenance and the enhancement, not of the self, but of the self-concept of self.” Even when everything seems to go wrong in our lives, we resist changing the way we see ourselves. John Steinbeck wryly saw this as the natural progression of human life: “It is the nature of [a person] as [he/she] grows older to protest against change, particularly change for the better.” The poet W.H. Auden expressed this resistance succinctly: We would rather be ruined than changed.
We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the present And let our illusions die. Furthermore, when a person changes a fundamental belief or opinion, the experience is often excruciating even though it may yield a catharsis and a release of long-held nagging pain. Neurological research indicates that when this kind of change occurs, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations resulting in extreme distress and discomfort. Our natural desire is for comfort and predictability. Yet we aspire to a better life – and this requires change. Thoreau wrote, “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of [a person] to elevate [his/her] life by conscious endeavor.” Your better Self is only a commitment away. Here’s how you can keep any commitment you make from this day forward: • Write down one of your worthy aspirations in a single sentence. Be specific and concise. Begin your sentence with the words, “I want to . . . ” and end it with “ . . . by [date and time].” I call this the “One Thing Clearly” method. Any commitment must start with an initial step. It is easier to take that step when it is clearly defined and designed. • Underneath this statement, write a single action you’ll need to do to begin moving your body toward your aspiration. Do not remain in your brain. Move! Once your body starts to move in a particular direction, your brain finds reasons to keep it moving. • Stop reading this book and do it now! Return to reading only after you’ve done this single action. When you commit to manifesting your worthy aspirations, your better Self shows up. In May of 1953, two men stood on top of the world.
One was Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander. The other was Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa tribesman from Nepal, who guided Hillary and his team up the craggy, slippery and dangerous slopes of Mt. Everest. Hillary said afterward that he could not have accomplished his climb, the first successful attempt by a European, without the knowledge of the mountain and the personal guidance of Norgay. In fact, Hillary would not have returned from the expedition at all had Norgay not snatched him from certain death when he halted Hillary’s slide into a bottomless crevasse. “Your Better Self” will act as your personal Sherpa guiding you to where you want to be in your life. This book will help you safely ascend to the heights of your worthy aspirations. It will help you halt your slide into the abyss of despair. In its pages, you’ll learn how to successfully climb the craggy, slippery and dangerous slopes of life so that you quickly rise to your better Self. You’re about to set out on a trip to the top of your world. By the end of this book, a panorama of exciting possibilities for your future will emerge that you didn’t know existed. You’ll see everything from an elevated perspective. The high ground will definitely be yours. The air will be clear and the vistas unlimited. You will find yourself in a place of peacefulness and wholeness. Gazing down at the clouds that always before had blocked your view of a better life, you will say, “What took me so long to get here?” Self-mastery is required to scale the cliffs of your self-imposed limitations and to arrive at the summit of your worthy aspirations. “Your Better Self” shows you how. You are embarking on a joyous journey to the best within you – and beyond! Welcome to your better Self!  |
