Making the Best out of Life

By Chibesa Emmanuel

The greatest person is he or she who lives the finest life. But there is only one sure way to a finest life, and that may be attained by those who have known the secret ingredients for making the best out of life. These secret ingredients are offered to you here in the pages of this extraordinary book.
This book describes step-by-step the meaning of life and a practical philosophy of acquiring happiness, wealth, influence, and how to turn your dreams into success. To make it more appetizing, poems, verses, proverbs, and quotes from great thinkers of our time have been included. This book will speak volumes to your life in a unique and fashionable manner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481794879

Chibesa Emmanuel

Chibesa Emmanuel is a man of many identities: He is a teacher, an acclaimed financial management consultant, a motivational speaker and author. He is also the famous actor of ‘Ruinous of a teacher’ (a Zambian comedy). Besides that, he has a lot of passions for the poor and spends most of his leisure time teaching them financial literacy and facilitating charitable projects. ‘Chibesa Ubwafya-Initiative’ is just one of such charitable projects. In fact, a portion of the profit from this book will be donated to orphanages and organizations that support the poor. When asked how a person would be able to do all that in a day, he says; “we all have twenty-four hours in a day. In fact, there are a lot of other stuffs I do, that I don’t include on my CV.”

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Published by AuthorHouse      05/14/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-9486-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-9487-9 (e)

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Preface

Chapter 1    The World Is Yours

Chapter 2    We Only Live Once

Chapter 3    The Meaning Of Life

Chapter 4    Born For The Purpose

Chapter 5    You Are A Master And A God On Earth

Chapter 6    You Were Born Rich

Chapter 7    Who Is To Blame In Life?

Chapter 8    Life Is The Way You Take It

Chapter 9    The Price Of Life

Chapter 10  The Golden Rule Of Making The Best Out Of Life

Chapter 11  The Formula Of Success

Chapter 12  The Six Master Keys Of Making The Best Out Of Life

Chapter 13  The Four Gifts Of Life, Use Them

Chapter 14  The Four Deadly Poisons Of Mr Best In Life

Chapter 15  Money Is Next To God, Have It!

Chapter 16  Nice Foods For Your Thoughts

Afterword

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

—Labann von Schiller, Playwright.

DEDICATION

To my spirit and my soul,

to my children,

to my grandchildren,

to all the Zambian youths,

to all people will read this book and become the Scholars of its philosophy.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My first credit goes to my publishing consultant Shane Duff For her patience, encouragement and availability up to the time the book was in print.

My second credit goes to my eldest brother Dr. Chibesa Felix for having supported me and groomed me into a man I am today. I wouldn’t have done much without him.

My third credit goes to mum for giving birth to a giant like me, having breastfed me until the time I was able to provide for myself.

My last and final credit goes to my close friend Kabwe Ailedi for her kindness, caring and being always around when I needed someone to talk to. Her criticism and scrutiny of my theories helped me to make necessary corrections and colour the mosaic of this book.

PREFACE

If you have what it takes for success but you don’t know how to release it—if you have wanted to make the best out of life—if you have never found true happiness and love—if you don’t have wealth, influence, popularity and power, then… .

This book will definitely be of help to you. Be ready and prepared to be taught by it, as the saying goes; when the student is ready the teacher arrives. This book will teach you that you were born rich! You were born for the purpose—the world was created specifically to make you happy and comfortable—success is yours because it is a natural instinct—you are a master, a vicar of God and a co-worker of Jesus Christ.

This book has arrived to help you find and make the best out of your life. It will also help you achieve what Buddhists call ‘Monkesha’ (the state of being a free soul). It is in its own way a bible, the torah, the Kabbalah, the Koran, the Tao-le Ch’ing, the book of changes (I Ch’ing), the teaching of the Buddha, the Bhagavad Gita, and the book of morns.

The philosophy presented in this book is not a theory for theories sake. It is a combination of all what great men have propounded and put to use. It is the philosophy that goes beyond all the great teachers the world has ever had before like Moses, Muhammad, Confucius, Buddha, Krishma, Zoroaster, Socrates, Copernicus, Martin Luther and Jesus Christ. This philosophy is the mind opener to those whose minds are locked, a torch to those who are still in darkness, a sound amplifier to those who can’t hear low sound and a source of water to those who are thirst.

This book is written for you… . Whoever you are… . whatever your present situation… . Wherever you are… . whatever you have… . whatever your present education… . whatever your age, sex, nationality, skin colour and race. This book will make you do whatever you want, get all what you want and feel the way you want to feel.

Some people are like parachutes. They can not open until someone open them. This book serves to provide such a simple service. I urge you strongly to take time to propound and digest the content of this book in order to open the doors of happiness, wealth, success, power, influence, love, health and popularity. I however, want to warmly warn you that not everything in this book is a gospel truth. You should eat the content of this book like we eat the sugar cane; we swallow the juice and spit the white hard stuff. Practice what is sweet to your taste, your circumstance, your beliefs and you opinions and I am sure that no matter how little you will find sweet and swallow able, it will help you make the best out of life.

Enjoy your reading and become the scholar of this philosophy, since you are the first student of it!

Chapter 1

THE WORLD IS YOURS

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—Just as the eyelids was made for the good of the eye, the womb,

for the comfort of the embryo so was the world made for the

good and comfort of human kind.

—Chibesa Emmanuel

People say that this world is not a better place for man to live in. is this true? Certainly not, this planet was specifically designed by the creator for the best heritance of human kind. It is however very disappointing that ‘man’ being a fault finding animal sees it that way.

Man is naturally born with what I term to be a criticizing and fault finding device (CFFD). This device is an extension of the cerebrum, the part of the brain responsible for thoughts, emotions and personality. It is this device which makes people complain over everything that happens under the sun. When it’s cold they don’t like it, when it’s sunny they say it’s too hot. When it rains much they don’t like it, when there is drought they worry themselves to death. When they are pregnant they abort; when they are barren they cry for children. When they are poor they worry themselves were to get riches and when they become rich; they worry on how to keep their riches. When they are at school they complain about how hard school work is and when they drop out they want to go back to school. When they are unlucky they curse the devil, but when opportunities knock they complain of the noise.

The size of the CFFD differs in accordance to the personality and characteristic of an individual. The CFFD feeds on the hormone ‘adrenalin’, when the adrenalin is secreted; they increase the sensitivity of the nervous system which in turn increases the size of the CFFD. This can explain why people who are usually angry, afraid or under stressed easily criticize and find faults in everything. The CFFD is also partly responsible for making defensive mechanisms.

The criticizing and fault finding device cannot be removed by surgical operation, but it can be prevented from enlarging by seeing something good in every situation that happens under the sun, and avoiding stress, being afraid for nothing and being angry for a long period of time. This world is yours and everything in it is yours. Do not give chance for your CFFD to grow and become the second cerebrum.

There is an ancient African proverb which runs; if the drum is not made it is the fault of the master, but if the drum is not beaten it is the fault of the boys. God has already made the drum of life, it is up to you to beat it and produce musical sounds out of it. God has done his part and he will not be blamed for any misfortune that happens to you. Remember that one cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams.

Maya Angelou once said: a bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Be like this bird; do not live life because you know how to live but because you know you posses the whole world. This world is entirely yours, so love it and like everything in it. As I close this chapter let me give you the best advice on how to posses the whole world.

"You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching,

Love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody

listening and Live like it’s heaven on earth."

—William W. Purkey

Sounds simple, right! But that is it. Do not mind other people who do not want to enjoy this world which we have been sold at no price. Make sure you make the best out of everything that is under the sun. Make sure that you also don’t complain because you will end up complaining of the noise when opportunity knocks.

Chapter 2

WE ONLY LIVE ONCE

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"You only live once

But if you do it right

Once is enough."

We only live once the professor of philosophy told me. But you do not need to be a professor in order to discover this truth. This saying is used by people of all standards and classes, and yet it makes life to be too sweet and too short to be true. It makes life to be nebulous and ephemeral. Life in itself is sweet, meaningless and short, but it is never cheap. This is a natural and cosmic truth from man to an amoeba. Charles Dawn in his theory of ‘natural selection’ proved that every living organism fights tooth and nail to survive. Unfortunately even the fittest animal as to die at one time.

After humanity discovered that he does not stand a chance to survive, what has been his resolution; he has been hallucinating of life after death and ‘reincarnation so as to give himself chances of completing the mission he failed in the previous life.

What a way to corrupt your mind and blackmail yourself. I am not trying to betray you, but the fact of the matter is, we only and I say only live once, believe it or leave it. What you call life after death is not life after death, it is the ‘soul after death’ the body dies completely forever and what remains is the immortal soul, free from the body. What you should not forget is that each body has one soul and each soul has only one body, so it never became human again.

Intelligent theologians might argue that there is life after death with evidence from Jesus Christ who was able to resurrect from the dead after three days of being in the grave. Yes! That might be true. I do not object to the resurrection of the soul, but to the resurrection of the human being. When Jesus Christ resurrected he was not in human form, no wonder he ascended to heaven so easily otherwise the force of gravity couldn’t have allowed him. What resurrect are the immortal soul and not the decayed body of a human being. You can only be a human being once, after that even the laws of nature will not recognize