Life Skills to Master Your Destiny: A Life-Changing Guide to Success, Happiness, and Inner Peace

By Gerry Tchir

A recent survey reported that over 80 percent of college graduates would go back to school to learn meaningful and practical life skills. This book shows you how to take ownership of your personal and professional life and create a happy, debt-free life of financial and personal freedom.

Society today is experiencing a "Crisis of Trust."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Jan 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798887383644

Gerry Tchir

* Author: DARE TO BE GREAT and LIFE SKILLS TO MASTER YOUR DESTINY.* President/CEO of CSU. Mission Statement is to "help people believe and then become the person they really want to be."* Addressed thousands on personal/ professional improvement in the USA, Europe, and the Orient.* Taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University, College of Saint Elizabeth, and Georgian Court University.* Appeared on WSMB radio network in New Orleans and Voice of America broadcast to Ukraine and Kosovo.* Missionary volunteer to teach English to orphans in Ukraine.

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Dedication……

This book is dedicated to the real treasures in my life … my wonderful and beloved wife, Olya; our two daughters, Donna and Kristiana; our daughter-in-law, Tiffany; our son-in-law, Mark; and our precious grandchildren, Makena, Merik, Luka, and Kosette.

I also would like to acknowledge and thank Almighty God for giving me the inspiration, direction, wisdom, and determination to complete this book.

Thank you for joining me on this exciting journey.

Enjoy.

Master Your Destiny

Introduction

Did you ever wonder why some people become superachievers, while others only talk about success and accomplishments? The difference is not talent, a college education, or rich parents. The difference between those who accomplish their dreams and goals, and those who only dream of accomplishing them is that achievers have an exciting vision, with definite, concrete goals, and a specific time plan on how to accomplish them.

There are Laws of Cause and Effect when it comes to reaching objectives, which makes success more of a science, and not an accident. Anyone with courage and a burning desire to Master Your Destiny will be met with a rich, rewarding life filled with abundance and victory far beyond any dreams. This book is about changing your thoughts and changing your life. It contains the equivalent of scientific principles for a new way of creative thinking and strategic planning to help accomplish your goals.

Success begins with a clear definition of your dreams, your goals and your objectives, and a precise written statement as to what and when you plan to accomplish them.

Your dreams are the destinations you want to reach; your goals are the signposts of accomplishment that define your path. Your values set the limits for the time and energy that you choose to expend on any dream or goal, and your personal strategies are the tools of accomplishment. Together with a new, positive way of thinking, they become your blueprint for a rich, rewarding journey and a satisfying, fulfilling life.

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the greatest rewards you can think of as you enter extraordinary levels of success, happiness, and fulfillment. Whether this dream is financial freedom, independence, the home of your dreams, a celebrity lifestyle, helping others, or whatever that dream looks like to you, picture yourself already achieving it! Savor the feeling of knowing you will always have ample wealth to ensure your dreams and be secure in the knowledge that it is the fulfillment of your life’s fantasy.

Now open your eyes, and what does your daily life look like to you? If what you see isn’t what you want it to be, then this book was written specifically for you!

Many years ago, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale made the observation that next to my relationship to Almighty God, the greatest thing that I have learned is that if you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results; if you think in negative terms, you will achieve negative results.¹ In the movie and book The Secret, millions were introduced to the concept of the Law of Attraction that advocates focusing our thoughts to attract those things we want from life and turning dreams into reality.²

Albert Einstein said, Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.³ Dr. Wayne Dyer’s book, Wishes Fulfilled, offers that the greatest gift you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. Within your magical inner realm is the capacity to have all your wishes fulfilled.

Here, in your imagination, lies the greatest power you will ever know. It is your domain for creating the life you desire, and the best part of it is that you are the monarch with all the inherent power to rule your world as you desire.

So now ask yourself, how do I apply the Law of Attraction and the power of my imagination to create success and fulfillment in my personal and professional life?

It starts by applying Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which teaches us that "when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at tend to change."⁵

Master Your Destiny is about taking ownership of your personal and professional life. It is about understanding the principles of cause and effect, and learning how to design and execute your actions so that you are the cause and not simply the effect. May this book bring you much love, joy, and peace in your life journey.

If you want to create a debt-free world of financial and personal freedom and live an extraordinary, worry-free life, this book is for you!

You will be inspired with powerful meaning and purpose, and receive clear, life-changing information on the process and direction you need to build your dream life.

So, let’s get started on your exciting journey to unlimited opportunity and abundance.

Chapter One:

THOUGHT CREATES EVERYTHING

Change your thoughts and change your life!

Your thoughts not only matter, but they also create matter. Thought is where everything comes from, and your thoughts originate your success. From Napoleon Hill to Earl Nightingale, there is one consistent theme in all their teachings: the secret to our success lies in controlling our thoughts. The only limitations on our accomplishments are those we place upon ourselves by our own self-limiting thoughts. You’ve heard the old saying, I’ll believe it when I see it. But that’s not how it works; the truth is more like, You will see it when you believe it. Your beliefs don’t reflect your reality, they create your reality. Our thoughts have a direct, causal impact on our reality. Victor Hugo said, There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.⁶ Our thoughts are the controlling factors in what we manifest and create in our lives. The idea always precedes the thing. Thoughts are the dream world we live in, and they are the clay from which you will shape and give life to your dreams of happiness and success.

We live in a world of absolute laws, a world that operates on every level and in every detail with absolute precision. There are no accidents, no coincidences; every movement and every action are accounted for precisely. Everything starts as an idea. Every thought you form broadcasts a distinct and particular frequency, and that frequency elicits a response from the Universe. Things don’t arbitrarily happen to you; events in your life are the reflection of your thoughts, an echo of your own actions and the thinking behind them. You are the cause in your life. Embracing this principle means you no longer have the luxury of blaming others or external circumstances for the things that happen in your life. Embracing this principle also means that you have far more capacity to create events and circumstances in your life than you could ever have imagined possible. George Bernard Shaw said, The winners in life look around for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they create them.⁷ With God’s help, all things are possible.

Quoting Proverbs, James Allen said, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.⁸ To master your destiny, you must first begin with your own personal vision. Vision is the foundation for every personal or professional success that has ever been or ever will be; it starts with the power and precision of an idea. The key to building a dream business or dream life is contained in the clarity and strength of the idea … the seed of greatness.

As is true in nature, every thought or seed needs an incubation period, a specific period of time to establish itself before it can unfold into a fully realized physical form.

There is one more ingredient in this process. For the seed or plant to grow, it’s simply not enough to plant it and wait. You also have work to do. Hold it, I can hear you saying, if everything starts with an idea, and creating a crystal-clear picture of what I want starts the Law of Attraction, why would I need to work? Why not just visualize what I want and wait for the arrival of my success?

Creating your dream life will require that you act with an intense level of precision. This means that your thinking and your vision have to be very clear in every detail. Which leads us to the single most crucial step that resides at the heart of the Law of Attraction: focus. Did you know that the average person loses focus every six to ten seconds?

The bad news is that the conscious brain cannot possibly keep track of all the things around you, yet the subconscious brain can and will, twenty-four hours a day, every day of your life. Your subconscious brain follows through with all the millions of actions necessary to achieve your goals. The conscious brain perceives the past and future. The subconscious brain has no perception of past or future; to the subconscious brain, everything is happening now! The conscious brain operates with a very short-term memory span, generally limited to about twenty seconds. The subconscious brain remembers everything it experiences … forever.

It is staggering to imagine even a fraction of what your subconscious brain achieves every second of your life. And all of this happens without the slightest bit of conscious awareness on your part. Your daily activity becomes a force of habit. And just what is a habit? It is what you create when you do something over and over, to the point where you no longer need to think about it consciously in order to repeat the process perfectly. And this applies to not only the things you do physically but also to your thoughts.

When you think the same thing over and over, it eventually becomes a habit of thought and a pattern of behavior. A habit of thought over time and with repetition becomes an attitude or belief. Beliefs are nothing more than specific patterns in your brain. They are thoughts that are so ingrained they have become automatic. They are not there because they are the truth. They have simply been handed down from generation to generation because someone put them there. I am not talking about your faith or religious views. I am talking about your beliefs, your habits of thought, opinion, and attitude about the world around you, especially your beliefs about yourself, about your life, and your prospects for fulfillment.

Let me put this into perspective. By the time you are seventeen years old, you probably have heard no, you can’t more often than you heard yes, you can. That makes for a very powerful and ingrained negative belief.

Most people view their own goals in the form of hopes or wishes. I hope I can succeed, or I wish I could earn a million dollars. And here is the remainder of that unfinished thought that usually goes unsaid, but I bet I won’t. The biggest obstacle to the accomplishment of most people’s goals has nothing to do with any external condition or factor. It is that they don’t believe it will happen, or that it can be done. If you don’t believe it will happen, it is almost guaranteed that it won’t. You simply cannot achieve a goal