INTRODUCTION

“Your heart is born free:
have the courage to follow it.”
— William Wallace

Are you free? Are you doing each and every day what your heart is calling you to do in both your professional and personal life?

     I speak in front of thousands of people every year, and when I ask that question very few people raise their hands.  Why? Most people aren’t free.  They’ve become a slave to their job or their life circumstances.  They struggle with the things one “must” do: paying off credit card debts; working a full-time job (or even two jobs); taking evening classes; supporting a family and raising children; living from paycheck-to-paycheck.

     Even successful people aren’t immune from believing they’re “trapped”—most people I know who make a lot of money become slaves to that financial success; the more they make, the more they spend, and thus the more additional money they need to make! I’ve come from a very modest middle class family, and I’ve also achieved financial successes far greater than most people.  I have learned that money in and of itself doesn’t make a man or woman free.

     I have a great friend named Brent Duskin, who has mentored me for many years.  Brent is a tremendously talented individual who has owned his own marketing company for a number of years.  Through his work, he has become an expert on determining what people want.  His research concludes that most people basically want three things: more time, more money, and more freedom.  I have also learned that people want more health, more love, and more happiness.  How then, can each of us get more out of life and recapture, as William Wallace said, our “heart … born free”?  I believe we become free when we create and then follow our destiny.

     What is destiny?  Webster’s Dictionary defines the word as meaning fate.  Look up fate in the dictionary and you’ll see that fate means the supposed force that predetermines events.  I believe that this supposed force is our MIND (or brain).  If we use our mind properly by taking action and executing our ideas and the opportunities presented to us in the way that we are capable of, then WE truly can become the supposed force that predetermines the events that occur in our lives.  Thus destiny means to me the ultimate purpose (fate) each of us has here on Earth.  Destiny is what each of us, as unique individuals, are put here on Earth to do, to become.  Our destiny resides within us.  It is our freedom, the great potential we have, the supposed force waiting only for our minds to unleash it.

     By the end of this book, I believe that you can discover your destiny.  You will also learn how you can apply life’s ultimate Success Secret.   This secret will show you how to achieve what my subtitle promises:

“How to Get Exactly What You Want Out of Life.”

     I know what many of you may be saying: I can’t influence my destiny.  My credit cards bills and student loans are too high.  Or, I have to work two jobs just to make my rent or pay my mortgage—and I can’t even think about saving the down payment for a house like my parents owned while I was growing up.  That’s wrong thinking—you can influence your destiny.   You can shape it, make it become real.  I’m going to show you how in this book, Creating Your Own Destiny.

     Still not certain?  I don’t blame you—believing we can influence our destiny requires huge thinking, an even bigger amount of belief.  But each of us can think, right? Each of us can believe, right?  Right—each of us can positively influence our fate.  As Robert Ringer stated in his book, Million Dollar Habits:

“When your mind believes something to be true, it stimulates your senses to draw to you the things, people, and circumstances necessary to convert the mental image it houses into its physical reality.”

     Your dreams can come true, in other words.  As Abraham Lincoln once said:

“You become what you think about.”

     There’s something else that also often holds people back in the pursuit of their dreams: fear.  Following your dreams can be scary.  You might be rejected.  It will take hard work.  There will be obstacles along the way.  But you must risk pursuing your dreams to become free.  As Walt Disney once said:

“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.”

     I’m also going to encourage you to pursue the biggest dreams possible, the most (seemingly) impossible “things.”  Why?  I strongly believe what George Elliot once said:

“Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far they can go!”

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