Everyday Evolution: Practical Perspectives on Personal Growth, Permanent Changes, and Progress in Life

By Martin Meadows

If You're Expecting a Revolution, Expect Disappointment

The world wants to sell us the idea that all we need to succeed is one lucky event. One lucky event and your dreams come true, your problems are forever solved, and everything is perfect.

But life doesn't work that way. Those who expect an overnight revolution in their lives end up right back where they started—bitter and angry at the merciless world that placed so many obstacles on their path to a better life.

If you wish to make your dreams come true, instead of hoping for a revolution, prepare for an evolution—an arduous but fruitful everyday process of self-improvement. And for that, Everyday Evolution, a new release by bestselling author Martin Meadows, has you covered.

Here are some of the things you'll learn from this book:

- When dreaming is dangerous and how dreaming strategically can help you accomplish your goals rather than sabotage them.

- Five traps that stem from fixating on events which can jeopardize your goals and set you up for failure.

- An overlooked, crucial step that will help you overcome plateaus and enjoy sustainable, long-term success.

- Five tips to stay determined over the long term, including a morbid strategy inspired by Japanese movies and a method based on the findings of a relationships expert.

- Six ways to improve yourself daily, including focusing on various important areas of your life that you might have not considered before.

Don't fall victim to the trap of event-obsessed thinking. Learn how to cultivate and enjoy a process-oriented outlook for consistent progress towards your goals. Buy the book now and begin a new chapter in your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Meadows Publishing
• Release date: Jul 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393401377

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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1: When Dreaming Is Dangerous

Chapter 2: The Five Traps of Fixating on Events

Chapter 3: Taking It Day by Day in a Humble Way

Chapter 4: Five Tips to Stay Determined While Evolving Every Day

Chapter 5: How to Improve Yourself Daily

Epilogue

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About Martin Meadows

Prologue

Richard wins the lottery, and suddenly his life is perfect. He can finally live the life of his dreams. Every problem has been solved, courtesy of a once-in-a-lifetime windfall.

Lucy and Troy get married and live happily ever after. They never fight. They never have to deal with any of the difficulties other couples experience. Marriage has solved it all.

Mary wins a tennis tournament. Just like that, she’s a world-famous sports celebrity, and thousands of athletes around the world look up to her. She never has to train hard to improve her skills again. She’s a sports star now, unable to lose.

Felix decides to change his sedentary lifestyle. A day later he’s jogging down the beach with a sculpted body, his beer gut of ten years having disappeared in a flash.

We’ve been led to believe that personal change happens virtually overnight, provoked by a single event that transforms one’s life in a blink of an eye. If only we could decide to change and reap the instantaneous benefits.

In reality, expecting big, sudden changes usually leads to big disappointments. Barring lucky incidents and unlucky accidents, it’s not an overnight revolution that changes a person’s life. Instead, it’s evolution: a much less attractive concept with almost imperceptible short-term results that lead to hard-to-believe long-term outcomes.

It’s only fitting that the word revolution comes from the Latin word revolvere, which means turn, roll back. Those who expect a revolution in their lives end up right where they started, disappointed in the evil, merciless world that placed so many obstacles on their way to a better life.

I decided to write Everyday Evolution to share with you some practical perspectives on how you can embrace a process-oriented approach in life and avoid this disappointment. By focusing on the slow but steady everyday process, you’ll have an easier time working on your goals than if you were to think of self-improvement as a series of events.

In my books, I like to use the words Prologue and Epilogue instead of the more common non-fiction book words Introduction and Afterword because they hint that there’s a story hidden between the pages.

Just like the hero of a good story develops their character throughout the pages, so do we grow in this successive fashion. A story in which a character becomes perfect on the second page of the book wouldn’t even be a story, would it? In the same vein, big changes need to gradually grow into such—starting from the tiniest seeds.

Care to learn more? Let’s start the story.

Chapter 1: When Dreaming Is Dangerous

Jasmine is tired of her mediocre, unexciting life. She lives in a city with endless opportunities, a place that never sleeps, goading its residents to be more, have more, and do more. Yet, there she is, stuck in a dead-end job, shuffling papers in a windowless office, hoping for an unlikely promotion and a small raise so she can go on a short vacation once a year.

Where did her life go wrong? What about her dreams of living in a cozy lakeside house, writing romance novels for a living? Everybody tells her to be grateful for what she has. Dreams are for kids; adults need to make do, they say.

But she refuses to accept this as fact. Her great-grandparents didn’t come to America for her to barely get by. She shouldn’t squander her opportunities. It’s time for a big change, she decides. No more selling herself short. She’s capable of so much more, and it’s time to prove it.

She starts by telling her family and friends that