Life on the Edge: Because Pushing Your Limits Gets You There

By Stephany Francisca

In Life on the Edge, author Stephany Francisca chronicles her path to finding a formula for a true life that has enabled her to meet and exceed her own objectives. As she recounts her personal memories and experiences from childhood to adulthood, she synthesizes the patterns that she followed to accomplish her life goals.

To her, the pattern is clear:
You do because you dont know better (ages 45).
You do because you want to change the undesired outcome to a desired one (ages 610).
You dare yourself to do more and push your boundaries each time you succeed (ages 1415).
You keep daring but with pre-damage control you take bigger risks (ages 19-22).

Author Francisca definitely took the road less traveled as she challenged everything from eating broccoli at six to being allowed to live on her own at fifteen. She talks about the challenges of fighting conventional wisdom, and of determining her own fate as opposed to letting her fate be dictated by others.

Life on the Edge is about following your dreams and living life to the fulleston your own termsby creating your own path in life and then following it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inspiring Voices
• Release date: Aug 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781462410187

Stephany Francisca

Stephany Francisca born and raised in Curacao graduated from college in the Caribbean and founded her first company at nineteen. She now owns three companies and has over ten years’ experience in modeling, as a television host, a motivational speaker to young people, and as an actress and reality television star. This is her first book.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-1017-0 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014913516

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 08/28/2014

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. We Are Born with It

Chapter 2. Something Changes

Poem: Something Changes

Chapter 3. Go Where the Path Leads or Create Your Own

Chapter 4. Find Your Zest in Life

Chapter 5. Be Courageous

Chapter 6. Rebel Away

Poem: Rebel Away

This book is dedicated to my very special family and my essential friends, with immense love and gratitude.

Preface

My aunt passed away in 2010. It was very hard for our family to suffer that unexpected loss, but the memories that remain keep her alive in our hearts.

Do you know what we did to ease the pain? We told ourselves that she had lived a full life. She had been true to herself and did all that she wanted to do.

The fact she was a housewife and mother of four never stopped her from pursuing her dreams, traveling the world—she traveled to a city on every continent—and doing what she loved. We couldn’t think of anything that she wanted to do that she didn’t do. We couldn’t even think of anything she might have regretted in her life. She really lived it up, and along the way, she made sure our family dreams also were accomplished because she always helped whenever and however she could.

She was such an admirable woman, and her passing made me think: when you’re not around anymore, how will people tell your story? When you are lying on your deathbed, what will be your lifelong regrets? What would you have done differently if you’d known which day was your last?

Most people wish they had worked less so they could have had more time with their families and friends. Some wish they had done more than they did and had given more than they shared. Some even wish they had allowed themselves to be happier by living their lives to the fullest. In most cases, people wish they