The 20 Year Old’s Guide to Spiritualism And Business: You Want the Keys to Live Your Best Life, Don’t You?

By Caleb Allison

Most of the greatest parts of your life all started with a leap of faith. Do you remember that one time you were on one side of the playground and the one cool kid, the one with that new phone, bet you $5 to jump to the other side and you did it, thus earning $5 and the ultimate respect of the cool kids? That was a leap of faith. And, like that decision to jump across the playground, you are now looking at another leap of faith. This book presents one of the greatest opportunities you’ll ever be presented in your entire existence. It is giving you the chance to learn all the secrets you’ll need to live your best life.

The question is, are you going to take the leap? Or, are you going to stand at the top and wish there was an escalator?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Sep 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781645368649

Caleb Allison

Caleb Allison is a man of failure. After dropping out of his small-town Georgia college to pursue his dreams of being a famous content creator, he realized this; content creation is about self-expression, and here he was finding that he had no idea who he was. So, he got lost for a while. And, in getting lost, he found himself. Just as most of his family before him, he wrote a book about it, giving all the secrets of living one’s best life written in the perspective of a 20-year-old dropout. For the first time in his life, Caleb succeeded.

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Caleb Allison is a man of failure. After dropping out of his small-town Georgia college to pursue his dreams of being a famous content creator, he realized this; content creation is about self-expression, and here he was finding that he had no idea who he was. So, he got lost for a while. And, in getting lost, he found himself. Just as most of his family before him, he wrote a book about it, giving all the secrets of living one’s best life written in the perspective of a 20-year-old dropout. For the first time in his life, Caleb succeeded.

Mom.

Dad.

Hannah.

Jacob. Nana.

Warren. BoJack.

Diane.

Caroline.

Great Grandma.

Every pet I had growing up.

Every chicken nugget I’ve eaten.

Myself, past, present, and future versions.

Teachers who actually believed in me.

And to every person who has restored my faith in humanity.

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Allison, Caleb

The 20 Year Old’s Guide to Spiritualism And Business

ISBN 9781645362562 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781645362579 (Hardback)

ISBN 9781645368649 (ePub e-book)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021916654

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I’m Going to Be

Straightforward

I don’t believe I’m the best person to write this book. I am far behind in the mystic path with no excuses considering I’ve spent the last year surrounding myself with a few already-established mediums and one that’s up and coming. I’m young, still stuck behind cultural conditioning, the opinions of others, and the things I picked up from my childhood. I have a hard time believing most of what spiritualists say, even though I’ve seen most of the phenomenon they explain happen in real life. I’m not sure, maybe it’s just my age.

But, as you’ll come to read, that is the point of this book. What we’re trying to do is grow past these issues to realize a deeper, more resound problem at the root of all of us; the problem is that we don’t even know who we even are. There’s no reason to feel bad about it. Like I said, I’m guilty of being stuck behind all of society’s filters, and it’s easy to lose yourself when you never found yourself to begin with. Once we fix this issue, however, we gain complete control over our entire lives. Issues such as balancing binge-watching of Parks & Rec with getting on the Dean’s List and we truly become easier, become the easiest things we’ve ever done.

Ask yourself right now, do you believe that you could control every aspect of your life?

Relationships, finances, opportunities? Or, are you the kind of person who messes up their order at Taco Bell and then spends the rest of the day telling yourself that you’re dumb, socially awkward, and will never amount to anything but a woman of the night? As we start this book, remember what I just said. I don’t believe I’m the best person to write this book. I am still stuck behind the societal mold. I want this book to be a journey for both of us. (Spoiler alert, it is. I’m editing this, and I know how it all ends. We climb mountains and jump off waterfalls, it’s fucking awesome.)

By the time this book is over, I want both of us to have made progress within ourselves, while also learning the concepts that make life a tangible, manageable Golden Retriever instead of a bat-shit-crazy Chihuahua. It doesn’t matter where you are in life, how old you are, or what you do for a living. Right now, all that matters is that you make the decision now to start on this journey with me. I’m your bestie throughout this. Your wingman. I’m the guy just looking out for your well-being. It’s completely platonic. I just want to see you succeed.

The best way to become friends with someone is to tell them about yourself and hope at least one thing about you clicks with them. So, to do that, I’ve connected these concepts with stories about me and the experiences I had growing up that taught me these things. For now, I’ll tell you this; I am a businessman. Ever since I was young, I was obsessed with the concept of business and everything that it stood for. When my brother and the boys of the family were out in the mud and hunting deer, I was inside with the girls playing ‘house’. I ran the office, and everyone worked for me. My parents and friends and teachers thought I would grow out of it, they pushed college on me and encouraged me to place myself in a lifetime career, one with a steady paying job, health benefits, and a 401k.

And, I did just that. To be honest, I didn’t hate it. I loved the concept of college; I just had this renowned hatred of the concept of two years of core curriculum.

It wasn’t until a year ago, two years into a four-year degree, that I realized I was wasting time. What I wanted, a life of creating and helping people realize their potential while traveling the world, wouldn’t be at the end of that degree program. I had to go out and get it, right then. To be fair, it took me two years of not doing what I wanted to realize what I wanted, but I digress. So, here I sit, watching the sunrise over Gatlinburg, Tennessee, thinking of two things. One; how crazy it is that I just thought of the idea for this yesterday, and how I’m already working on it, which is not like me at all. I usually plan for a decade then give up five minutes in. And two, how the first lesson I learned in the way of business is that if you notice a problem or the lack of a solution, then you create that solution yourself. That’s what this is; a solution to an issue I noticed. That’s what I am; a problem solver.

I was reading a book my aunt/business partner recommended, Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, when I found myself unable to comprehend the language he was using. Sure, I was reading it and I was understanding what he was saying, but it just wasn’t clicking. I thought, Hell, maybe I’m just too young for this. I’ll get it when I’m older. But I knew that wasn’t the case. It happened again the next day, so I explained this to Diane. And, she said to listen to an audiobook of hers to see if it helped. It was Esther Hicks explaining the law of attraction. There was so much going into my brain only to jumble up and fall apart, like driving in Atlanta. I explained this phenomenon to Diane. She thought I was asking for an explanation, so she immediately provided one. The thing is, I was actually asking for a solution to my problem. She inadvertently provided a solution to my problem when she explained Hicks’ rambling. When she explained what Hicks was saying, there was an audible click in my brain. The way she laid it out made sense, and when I truly understood it, the lesson cemented itself in my brain almost immediately.

Let me give an example (without giving too much away, so we can have a more detailed talk about this later)

The way hicks explained it was layered in metaphors and fluff, "Find out what you don’t want, so you can know what you do want." (Repeated in different ways a few times) … Most people focus on the fact that they don’t have something they want, it’s normal to want things, but you can’t want things, wanting to be focusing on the fact that you don’t have the thing you want, so you can want but don’t want (I’m paraphrasing because this is what my brain heard, layers upon layers of one lesson stretched out into oblivion).

Diane’s explanation was, Hicks is saying that the law of attraction states that having a desire for something is ok. But, don’t focus on the fact that you don’t have the thing you want. Focus on the feeling of having that thing in your hand right now. For example, (for backstory purposes, we were stopped at a gas station/McDonald’s earlier that day where Diane had gone inside to get us some chemical energy. While she was in there, I explained to the kids how good it would be to have some French fries at that moment, do you remember earlier when I surprised you guys with chicken nuggets and French fries? You were thinking of how good it would be to have fries right then, not the fact that the guy in the car over has fries and you don’t.)

The lesson clicked. Later that day, there was a shot that I wanted to get with my camera, a very difficult one. And, I just imagined how good it would feel to actually get that shot instead of how disappointed I would feel without the shot. Sure enough, the opportunity arose five minutes later.

That was the explanation and the lesson that cemented itself, but the hidden solution in that was that, sure, I didn’t understand the language the big-league mediums and mystics were using, and it may be because I’m young, but it that may not be the case. There’s no telling if I ever would grasp it. There needs to be a simpler explanation, one that ties to chicken nuggets and Netflix