Change Your Life Forever!: The Seven Deadly Sins in the Modern-Day World: How to Fight Evil with Learned Virtues

By Jade Fan

Did you know that we have the freewill and are always given a chance to choose the kind of life we want to live? You can either choose to live in sin and choose a sinful lifestyle or alternatively, you can opt for living a life based upon the principles and core values of righteousness. In reality, you have a choice. Most people rarely question the way that they live and automatically follow a path of mindless and senseless self-destruction, destroying relationships with themselves and with others - by choosing to allow sin to underpin their hidden agendas and motivations for their life choices. But the truth is that you don’t have to live this way.

This book was written to help every person in the world understand how the seven deadly sins as we know them are not only extremely dangerous to us and those around us, but are the reasons and root causes that can lead us down the road of destruction. Understanding the ways these sins may operate or manifest in a person’s life, and how to deal with them, can help us to banish sinful and destructive routes in life once and for all. As it is only then that we can choose to turn our backs on the very lives that are causing us immense pain and suffering. Choosing to live a life of sin equates to gradual emotional and spiritual suicide, whereby one’s once joyful spirit and moral character of nobility and righteousness are eroded and eventually lost forever.

What are the benefits you will gain from reading this book?

• Help people from around the world understand how to combat these seven deadly sins, develop the willpower to consciously overcome destructive emotions and underlying motives - help you to restore a sense of hope, purpose, and new-found direction in your life.

• Will help you live a life based on truth and stop you from making costly mistakes that are causing you unhappiness, perennial pain, and suffering.

• Will help you realize that you deserve to be happy, and deserve to have a better life through simply knowing what is presented to you in this book; learning, understanding, and implementing the life-changing virtues taught in this self-help guide.

• Will help you will gain the ability to recognize the material manifestations of the seven deadly sins in the world and the people around you, and how best to neutralize or combat these attacks on your own lives.

• Incrementally find liberation and be set free and change your life forever! Our main motivating purpose is to liberate all people in this world. No matter who you are, where you’re from, your individual circumstances, or your past mistakes or faults. This guide will ultimately help you to understand that your destiny is your own to change!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Apr 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781528956536

Jade Fan

Jade Fan is a professional Life Coach accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation) who founded Jade Fan Life Coaching to help people worldwide. She is also a qualified and experienced counsellor, career coach, educator, author, and therapist specialised in resolving mental health, spiritual, emotional and identity issues. Jade is an avid advocate of existential psychotherapy in her approach when facilitating clients in achieving greater life satisfaction, happiness and holistic well-being. This could include overcoming anxiety, depression, spiritual and identity issues, and dealing with loss and emotional trauma – ultimately, Jade Fan’s mission and goal in life is to help others restore a sense of purpose or direction, whose lives she touches upon either through her writing or direct interventions. Jade Fan also offers courses on various health, wellbeing and education topics to help people transform their lives for betterment and healing. Jade is working on further books to help alleviate some of the most common ailments people find most challenging, including dealing with past trauma and painful events, and how to move forward from the past to the present.

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About the Author

Jade Fan is a professional Life Coach accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation) who founded Jade Fan Life Coaching to help people worldwide.

She is also a qualified and experienced counsellor, career coach, educator, author, and therapist specialised in resolving mental health, spiritual, emotional and identity issues. Jade is an avid advocate of existential psychotherapy in her approach when facilitating clients in achieving greater life satisfaction, happiness and holistic well-being. This could include overcoming anxiety, depression, spiritual and identity issues, and dealing with loss and emotional trauma – ultimately, Jade Fan’s mission and goal in life is to help others restore a sense of purpose or direction, whose lives she touches upon either through her writing or direct interventions. Jade Fan also offers courses on various health, wellbeing and education topics to help people transform their lives for betterment and healing.

Jade is working on further books to help alleviate some of the most common ailments people find most challenging, including dealing with past trauma and painful events, and how to move forward from the past to the present.

Dedication

Dedicated to my beloved grandmother, who taught me the value of goodness.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my family and friends for being supportive during the gestation and writing of this book. It was such a pleasure and joy to write, although I pondered over it for a while and wanted to ensure that it was ‘perfect’ before I thought it was ready to be published and presented to the world, and the wider readership that would stumble across it. However, throughout the process of writing this book, I realised that there was no such thing as ‘perfect’, as the best I could do was to present to the world the knowledge I had in my heart and mind, and the intellect that God has, thankfully, blessed me with and granted me with the ability to share it with the world. The biggest influence upon the focus of my writing was the role of my grandmother, who, unfortunately, passed away to be with God many years ago the year I turned 13 years old. At the time, I was only a high school student who was crumbling under the pressure of juggling many subjects, hectic revision schedules and trying to keep focused without giving in to distractions of the world, entertainment and friends during those crucial years of intellectual and academic development. However, the many years of perseverance and hardship were well worth the time I invested, as the journey shaped me into becoming the person I am today, with the core values that I have, which I hold dear and intimately close to my heart. These are values of goodness, kindness, generosity, benevolence, patience, virtues of honesty, happiness, a sense of righteousness, justice, equality, respectfulness for life and zest for living a life full of meaning and purpose. Thank you, my loving and encouraging grandmother, who instilled in me the values of needing to love education, the pursuit of knowledge and intellectual curiosity, having a deep profound self-belief in possibilities and being an active agent in creating a life that can not only enlighten and transform the self but also has the potential to transform the external conditions of the world to better the world in some shape or form, which is very exciting for it makes, what seems initially impossible, possible. My grandmother escaped the Vietnam War as a refugee, fleeing to England for a place of safety and refuge during the time when her country was being bombed by Americans and under destruction. Her character of strength, pious nature, and traditional values of loyalty, faith, and commitment to family, not only taught me how to respect and love myself first but also the importance of being a truly good human being with a strong identity and sense of purpose in the world by being compassionate in duty towards the need to help other people, the needy and vulnerable, and not having a fear of giving. The giving could take the form of money, charity, effort, patience, and investment of time for the benefit of another human being without expectation of return or calculation for my own selfish gains. I’m not quite sure how I knew, but I just knew deep within my heart and spirit that it was through education and knowledge that I would be able to help other people, and I had a feeling in my gut that I would be dedicated to helping other people throughout my entire life; though at the time I had no idea how I was going to do so. Now, fast-forward two decades later, not only have I regained a new sense of faith and sense of physical purpose in the world as a professional Life Coach accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation), but I also regained a higher spiritual purpose in my heart, which is dedicated to having faith and a love of everything godly that belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven and Light; paired with an unquenchable passion and love of helping people and having a heart filled with compassion and honest nature that values truth, and one that renounces and steers clear away from people and events that delight in deception, selfishness or evil. Our childhood and early experiences do matter and influence our core values that reside within us; as they are akin to the early seeds planted within us as young children. Thanks to my grandmother, who raised me throughout my childhood with a good solid foundation and appreciation of values centred around ‘goodness’, ‘virtuousness’, ‘kindness’ and ‘compassion’, combined with the love of learning, knowledge acquisition and sharing, and education. Thus, finishing this book and just releasing it out there in the world is such a wonderful achievement, and if I were to compare the time when I started writing the book, and when I finished it… I realised that there are parallels between the book-writing process with life. There are often many things that we may be afraid of in the beginning, or have a tendency to worry about or over-analysing, which leads to analysis paralysis; being stuck in a state of stagnancy, or procrastination. Yet, when one actually starts the writing process and if we persevere to the end, one realises that it is not actually as bad or as difficult as we initially thought. I would therefore encourage readers of The Seven Deadly Sins to give the strategies or changes to one’s mindset and perception of the self, world, and others a try by learning the virtues detailed in this guide. After all, the worst thing that could happen is that when you give it a try the first time, you may not succeed straight away or be able to get used to the new way of thinking or behaving, yet with time, perseverance, and practice—like most things in life—it gets easier and, eventually, becomes the new status quo; a way of being and way of life. I hope this book genuinely changes your life for the better and adds more blessings and happiness to your relationships, self-perception and ability to handle most situations that may present themselves to you as you explore and learn through this journey called life.

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Disclaimer: Although this manuscript has been prepared with the utmost care, neither the author, publisher, seller, editor or any other party associated with this book can accept any liability for any direct or indirect damages caused by following the advice given here. All opinions, ideas and advice expressed here are largely my personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the opinion of any other organisation or person, including my employer, my clients, or their agents. Any reference to any persons or businesses, whether living or dead, existing, or defunct, is purely unintentional.

Why I Wrote This Book

This book was written to help every person in the world to understand how the seven deadly sins are not only extremely dangerous to us and those around us but are the reasons and root causes that can lead us down the road of destruction. Understanding the impact of these sins, and how they are likely to manifest in ourselves, our thoughts, behaviours, lifestyle choices, and actions would be extremely liberating, as it is only then we can choose to turn our backs on the very lives that are causing us great pain and suffering. Choosing to live a life of sin equates to gradual suicide, whereby one’s once joyful spirit can be lost, possibly temporarily, or worse still, forever. A person who lives a sinful lifestyle is also likely to experience a loss of positive personal identity, which can, thus, even lead a once good, virtuous, righteous, upright, noble, and most importantly, happy, content and peaceful person astray—to leading a life of destructive addiction, prone to afflictions such as mental health disorders: for instance, having recurring negative psychological thought patterns or low self-esteem; feeling disheartened and lost in life without purpose or meaning; losing the will to live due to crippling anxiety and/or depression are bound to prevent any human being from being truly happy from within. Choosing to live a sinful life motivated by these seven deadly sins, unfortunately, is most likely to lead to the breakdown of social relationships, feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, discontentment, emptiness, lack of love and compassion and is a way of life that is based on selfishness and immorality without healthy boundaries or limits. This is likely to affect us even as we go about in our everyday lives trying to mind our own business and do the best we can on a daily basis.

This is the reason why I wrote this book, because I believe that the world and all the people leading lives in which they feel lost, directionless, deep down sad without truly knowing or understanding the root causes or reasons as to why. Thus, this book was written with the intention to provide hope as you deserve better; to be happy in life. This guide should, therefore, help you to recognise the material manifestations of the seven deadly sins in the world and the people around you, and how best to neutralise or combat these attacks on your own lives. By following the seven virtues detailed in this guide, you can, incrementally, transform your life for the better forever.

My main motivating purpose is to liberate all people in this world. No matter who you are, where you’re from, your individual circumstances, or your past mistakes or faults. This guide is not meant to be judgmental towards those that are leading a sinful life at this present moment. As the popular saying goes: ‘knowledge is power’, but in my view, it is not enough to just know something—it is more about the kind of actions that you take to do something about it. This is where true power and autonomy comes from. Therefore, to put it more accurately, knowledge is potential power, but action and implementing life-changing practices, making conscious decisions to find realistic solutions to problems or issues are the true gems that we need to learn and take away to implement in our own lives.

Why You Should Read

This Book

This book will help you recognise the seven deadly sins that underpin all human behaviour, which can bring destruction into places and characterise the relationships that are most important to us. The seven deadly sins can crop up anywhere: in one’s workplace, in friendships, displayed by the people that we meet or by acquaintances that we hardly know, in our choice of partners and marriages, and even closer to home: in our own families and personal relationships.

It is only when you can develop an astute way to combat or steer clear away from people who operate from the standpoint of these sins (that are most likely motivating their behaviours and actions), that we can find liberation and break away from the bondages that are making many of us live (although some of us may never admit) unfulfilling, sad, empty, purposeless, or meaningless lives.

I hope that this book touches upon many people out there, reaches their core, and helps them to become better, more spiritually aware versions of themselves. This is because we have to recognise that happiness is essentially within ourselves, and our internal realities are fundamentally projected onto our external realities. And the way to true inner happiness that reaches deep within our cores, essence, souls, spirits that drive us forward in life, has to depart from a choice of sinful ways of living. What we have to acknowledge and understand is that living a sinless, blameless, and guilt-free, shameless, kind, full of love, peaceful, joyful, content, happy lives can lead us to a state of blissfulness. The secret to success and prosperity lies in the openness and willingness to accept change, in order to bring longstanding happiness and well-being, in our state of feeling and being. It commences and