You Have Everything You Need to Get What You Want: You have the power to change everything!

By Zach Touchon

"It doesn't matter who you are, how much you've got, how much you don't have, what you do, or where you work, anyone can use these tools and practices to help them achieve their goals faster than you ever thought possible." - Zach Touchon

In this book, you will discover...

- A step-by-step guide to easily transform your life, your relationships, and your business.
- How to identify what you want and what your major purpose is.
- How to gain from a loss in your life.
- How to identify what is holding you back and how, to be honest with yourself.
- How to uncover resources that are hiding right in front of you in plain sight.
- Tools to help you deal with the things that are holding you back in your life.
- Tools to put the assets in your life to work for you.
- Principles to live your life by.
- How to identify negative habits and replace them with positive habits.
- How to uncover your deep-rooted fear and tools to help you overcome that fear and even use it as your new superpower.

"You are the writer of your story and as the writer of your story you can change the next chapter in your life, just like I did. You have the power to change everything!" - Zach Touchon

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667838250

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Print ISBN: 978-1-66783-824-3

eBook ISBN: 978-1-66783-825-0

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I want to thank my wife,

Ekaterina Khrustaleva Touchon,

without whom none of this

would have been possible.

I would also like to thank all of my friends and family

for supporting me on my journey

to realize my dreams.

Dedicated in loving memory to my momma,

Elizabeth Touchon.

Why Did I Write This Book?

The Journey Begins

CHAPTER 1 What Do You Want?

CHAPTER 2 Stop Wanting, Start Having

CHAPTER 3 What’s Holding You Back?

CHAPTER 4 What Do You Actually Have?

CHAPTER 5 Ignore, Remove, Improve

CHAPTER 6 Utilize, Visualize, Realize

CHAPTER 7 Ask for Help and Focus on What’s Working

CHAPTER 8 Make Personal Changes

CHAPTER 9 Building Successful Habits

CHAPTER 10 Immediate Action

CHAPTER 11 Know When to Let Go

CHAPTER 12 Accept Your Success

CHAPTER 13 Learn from Your Mistakes and Move on

CHAPTER 14 Start Over

CHAPTER 15 Fear

CHAPTER 16 A Few Other Things I Learned Along the Way

CHAPTER 17 Final Thoughts

Why Did I Write This Book?

Like me, you may be searching for a breakthrough to help you take your life to the next level. When I began writing this book, I was looking for a new perspective, a new truth that would set me free. Are you trying to find that one piece of the puzzle that will pull it all together and create the beautiful life that you want? You may be in the right place.

This isn’t a book about some multimillion-dollar pyramid dream. I’m not going to promise you a fancy car or a big house or that you can get rich quickly by reading this book. What I am offering is a set of tools and principles that will help you discover what you want and how you can get it. Using these tools and principles, you will be able to identify your strengths and weaknesses and discover one simple truth:

YOU ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED

TO GET WHAT YOU WANT!

How did I discover this truth for myself?

I have acted in almost forty movies, run my own art gallery, sold thousands of dollars’ worth of art, written several feature screenplays, become an executive producer, recorded hundreds of songs, and started and run a successful company on the Westside of Los Angeles. I have a beautiful wife, I live on the beach in California, and I’m happy, fulfilled, financially independent, self-made, and I do what I love doing every day. Most importantly, I am proud of who I am.

It wasn’t always that way. I grew up in a bad neighborhood, what many would call on the wrong side of the tracks. I mowed lawns, waited tables, was a cook, worked at all types of manual labor jobs, moved pianos, lived under a bridge and at a shelter for kids when I was homeless at sixteen, lived in a closet, in my car, and endured all types of struggles that made me who I am today. Through those experiences, I never stopped dreaming and wanting a better life. Everything that happened then had to happen for me to be where I am today.

My brother-in-law Chuck has been a mentor and inspiration to me as I have become a man over the last fifteen years. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him.

Naturally, when I decided to write this book, I told him about it. He asked me, Why are you doing this? What’s the plan?

I paused for a moment and then said, I am writing this book to find out more about myself, tell my story, and dive into what I can do to get to the success that I want and understand what I need to do to get there. Then, I can use this information to help others get there as well.

The reason I wrote this is so that I could realize that I had everything I needed to get what I wanted. I have read many self-improvement books and always loved how they made me feel. When I would pick up a good book and find answers that I needed at that moment, it would push me to keep going. I love that. I was looking for the motivation to reach greater heights and successes than I ever thought I could accomplish.

I wanted to create a guide that would contain some practical tools and practices that I could use in my own life to help me reach the fulfillment, success, and happiness I’ve always dreamed of. Ultimately, I wrote this book to map out a new part of myself and my life. I want to pay closer attention to the details that helped me survive as a creative entrepreneur, but, more importantly, some of the things that have held me back. In the beginning, I was writing this for myself. What I quickly discovered was that others, like you, the one reading this book right now, could benefit from this knowledge as well.

I believe that just a small shift of perspective can be the key to unlocking the potential around and inside of you. I hope that by the end of this book, you will have an entire paradigm shift and gain a set of tools to help you uncover the resources right in front of you. We have everything we need to get what we want, so all we have to do is see it. Join me on this journey to discover the truth that,

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE EVERYTHING!

The Journey Begins

We all have a story to tell. There are struggles, failures, successes, pain, losses, good and bad decisions we have made, and so many things that we go through in our lives that make us the people we become. No matter where you are in the world reading this book, I want you to know that your story is important too and that you are the writer of your story. As the writer, you can change the next chapter in your life, just like I did.

This is where my journey begins...

In 2016, I was living the dream. The apartment I was living in was stunning. It had a million-dollar view overlooking the Staples center in Downtown Los Angeles. I was making a lot of wealthy friends. I was living the good life, but none of it was mine. My godfather was letting me crash at his place. I was painting in a studio that my friend let me use, and I was skating by, but I wanted so much more. It looked great from the outside, and it was a great time with no regrets. As I stood there looking out of the floor-to-ceiling window, it felt like I was on top of the world. But I knew that if I wanted to take life on and start having something that was mine, I was going to have to make some dramatic changes.

I had just begun a new romantic relationship with a big-time Hollywood producer, and we were heading to New Zealand to make a movie. I could see all of the pieces falling into place. I’ve always been led by my dreams and been willing to drop everything and run towards them. Even if you can’t drop everything and run towards your dreams, you still have to be willing to take the next step in your life as well, even if it isn’t going to be easy. You have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone and step into your new life or you are forever going to be bound by who you have always been.

We landed at the airport and, within a couple of days, I could already see that it was going to be a bumpy ride. I was in a relationship with the producer, so it was a strange place to be where I had to balance my opinion and what to do between the producer and the director. Other than the fact that I had done several films at that point from the limited view of talent, this was the first time I was able to see the whole picture from the production side as well. I did what I could do knowing what I knew at that point. Long story short, the film didn’t work out. But what I did get is a crash course in filmmaking that, although I didn’t know it at the time, would change my life forever. In retrospect, knowing everything I know now, after all I have learned since then, there was way more I could have done. We all do this as we get older; we look back over our experiences and think how we could have done better knowing what we know now. Let’s face it, that is not the way life is. There is nothing we can do about the past except learn from it and do our best to do better in the future. Sometimes the most valuable thing that we gain from an experience is the lessons that we learn.

After the disappointment of what could have been a great experience, we flew to Fiji for a quick hiatus before heading back to Los Angeles. When we got there, it was raining so much that we could barely see the road in front of us. The airport had lost our luggage and we were having a very bad argument. By the time we got to our hotel, we were both ready to break up and move on with our lives. She went off to bed and I went out to let off some steam and make the best of it.

The next morning, I got the news. My mother died. I broke down in disbelief as I ran straight towards the beach. My heart was racing because I was so angry. I was in denial; I could not believe it, and the pain was unimaginable. I fell down to my knees as the waves rushed over me and I began to sob. I would never be the same. Everything had changed.

It’s hard to explain the feelings you have at a moment like this even when looking back on it. At the time, your mind is racing and your feelings are all over the place. When you have a loss like this, it’s not something you ever really recover from. It gets better over time, but the loss is always there with you. You even come to a place where you like crying and missing them. I had lost many of my friends at this point and that pain was bad, but nothing compared to the loss of my mom. My mother was a guiding light for me and the person I would call when I needed the unconditional love that she always gave me. We would talk nearly every day, sometimes just to say hello. All of a sudden, I was all alone. At least that is how it felt. Where do I go from here? Who do I ask for advice? Who can I make proud? Where will I call home? Who will be there when I’m at my worst? Whose shoulder will there be to cry on?

My girlfriend at the time had us on the next plane to Texas to see my Mom one last time before her body was given over to science. We made it with just five minutes to spare. In my memory, all of this happens in slow motion. Walking down the long, cold, fluorescent-lit hall towards the room to view the body, knowing this was the last time I would see my Momma. Seeing her laying there on the cold metal bed was surreal. I felt like she would wake up when I touched her cold hand. I just said, Mom, wake up. The crying was uncontrollable. Even now, writing this, tears are rolling down my face. My brother, my two sisters, and I were there together. My brother began to cry and cry, something none of us had ever seen before. I had moments in the past where I wondered if he even loved her because of his ability to not show emotions, but in that moment, I

Reviews for You Have Everything You Need to Get What You Want

[Regina S · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Read it and loved it!!

This book has come along at just the right time in my life.
I had to make some important choice and it helped me a lot.
Zach Touchon’s book has great lessons on self-development, motivation, and personal growth.
Thank you for inspiring me.
I enjoyed reading the book and learned a lot.
Highly recommend it to the people who are trying to find the way to change their life , make it better and start following their dreams.