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    Blazing Your Path Through Life: How to Turn Your Personal Potential Into Results
    Blazing Your Path Through Life: How to Turn Your Personal Potential Into Results
    Blazing Your Path Through Life: How to Turn Your Personal Potential Into Results
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    Blazing Your Path Through Life: How to Turn Your Personal Potential Into Results

    By Jim Zwers

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    Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a tough decision and didn't know what to do or which way to turn? You're not alone.

    Life can be intimidating, confusing, uncertain ... but it doesn't have to be that way.

    Sometimes we desperately need the knowledge and experience of someone who has been through what you're about to face. Like a friend or mentor to call on, Blazing Your Path Through Life is a book of deep thought and logic that developed out of real-life experience.

    Its array of thought-provoking topics will:
    * Provide you with motivation
    * Assist you in making tough decisions
    * Help you to think and dream big. Influence or be Influenced.

    Change or be Changed. Lead or be Led ...
    The way we approach life has a lot to do with how things turn out for us, whether we're blazing a path for ourselves and others, or being run over by opponents, obstacles, and unexpected occurrences.

    This book is a collection of speeches the author has given over a number of years at various school commencement ceremonies.
    This book is a great read with inspirational and motivating advice for anyone going through a period of transition in their lives.
    Blazing Your Path Through Life reveals important perspectives on:
    * Leadership and being a leader
    * Influencing our environment vs. being controlled by it
    * The power of making decisions
    * The influence of attitude
    * The key to genius
    * The secret behind "luck" and creating an ideal future
    * Mediocrity, greatness, dreams, and courage
    * How to be unshakable in your goals and beliefs
    * How to continue to grow, become better, learn, and truly reach your full potential ... and much more!

    Anyone with a life in transition will appreciate this book. That should include anyone living life fully and seeking goals.

    Read this book and refer back to it regularly, whenever you need some motivation, a change of attitude, or need to make an important decision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProminent Books, LLC
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
    ISBN9781310405464
    Blazing Your Path Through Life: How to Turn Your Personal Potential Into Results

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      Blazing Your Path Through Life - Jim Zwers

      PROLOGUE

      TRANSITIONS

      In life, we are in a repeating cycle of working toward an objective, and then transitioning toward the next objective. Working, transitioning, working, transitioning. Graduation is just one of many such transitions in life: starting school, graduating, moving to a new city, getting married, changing careers, seeing our own children go off to college. At any one of these points of transition there are decisions to be made, goals to be set, things to say goodbye to and new people and places to discover.

      Sometimes the transition comes on its own, and sometimes we shake things up by instigating our own changes in our lives. Sometimes we see the transition coming from far away and other times they happen, out of the blue, completely unexpected.

      WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?

      In putting these speeches together in book form, I realized that in addition to the obvious fact of these applying directly to a graduating student, they could also be useful to anyone going through any period of change in his or her life, whether planned or unexpected.

      There are times that we all have to make decisions, to make changes. I hope this book helps readers to make tough decisions and make them better.

      ABOUT MAKING DECISIONS

      As a quick note of importance, just because you made a wrong decision in the past or failed at some goal doesn’t mean that the game is over for you. Making the wrong decision might just be a step you had to go through to get to the ultimate right place.

      The hardest part of this process of writing a book has been getting over the feeling that someone would think that I think I have all the answers to life. I don’t. But I have found everything in these pages to be relevant and useful in my own life. I work hard to learn more and become better every day and to that degree practice what I preach in this book.

      Good luck and fair weather as you move through the adventures of your life.

      —Jim Zwers

      INTRODUCTION

      THE ECONOMICS OF ADVICE

      In economics, there is a concept known as supply and demand. It determines how much something is worth. For example, if there is a short supply of something (take gold for instance), it becomes more valuable in the eyes of the consumer. Likewise, if there is a high demand for something, the price rises.

      The opposite of this is when there is low demand or too much of something. In this case the value drops and so does its price.

      Most advice is ignored for two reasons: 1) the advice-giver thinks he is smarter than you, which is a complete turnoff and makes you not want to listen, or 2) the advice-giver wants you to avoid the mistakes he’s made in the past, which makes him, by default, seem dumber than you. Either way, it’s a deal-breaker with no interest in listening to the knowledge that person has to share.

      This creates an economic condition where there is a lot of advice available, but there’s very little demand for it. In fact, there is so little demand for advice that it creates an inverted condition whereby the one receiving any advice is just listening to be nice to the person who’s giving the advice. Economically, it is a negative demand!

      It’s to the point where people who are willing to sit and listen to another’s advice are so rare, you could almost be paid to do so.

      Anyway, back to my point. I want to share information with you but I want to avoid giving you advice (which you don’t really want anyway). So, for the next few pages let’s just imagine that we’re just friends having a conversation.

      WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK

      We begin our lives with curiosity, opposition and determination, among other things. At first, decisions are made for us almost completely. The older we get, the more the tide turns to our own control. That control, self-appointed or otherwise, is in the area of responsibility. It has nothing to do with going it alone, figuring it all out and doing things all by yourself.

      We can move along by guessing—taking best chances— and hoping things turn out like we want them to. Though

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