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Patrick Snow – Creating Your Own DestinyPut your own fate exactly where it belongs-in your handsIt is one of the great questions of life. Its a simple question, really, but it seems impossible for many to answer: Do we control our own destinies? 90 percent of people think and act as if their destiny is foreordained, while only about 10 percent believe in the capacity to change and act on it.Creating Your Own Destiny explains and demonstrates to the majority how to dream, plan, and execute a better future-despite the challenges of the economy and life circumstances.Based on time-honored principles, theories, and case studies Pres a Success Road Map for all those people who are seeking to achieve success but who aren’t satisfied with their careers. Written in an easy and accessible tone by Patrick Snow, who has been dubbed “the Dean of Destiny”With the powerful and practical tools featured in this essential guide, you’ll find yourself newly empowered and energized to achieve extraordinary results.Summary: Makes you thinkRating: 5This book can’t be read in one sitting. Each chapter is a life lesson, some more than others. The chapter on balancing family and work was life-changing for me, while the review on real wealth was more validation. There’s everything in here that affects how we run your business life from health habits to mind-sets to financial plans. I’ll probably reread it for various stages of my future business life as well.Summary: New Book Has Answers for SuccessRating: 5Patrick Snow’s “Creating Your Own Destiny” is the most energetic and inspiring book written about fulfilling your dreams and finding true happiness in life. While thousands of self-help and motivational books exist in the marketplace, this book should be at the top of the list for everyone who wants to improve his or her life. I have had the incredible honor to talk to Patrick Snow in person and to hear him speak in public, and I can truly say he is the genuine article, a man whose energy and incredible gift of vision can help you succeed, a man who truly wants each of us to create our own destinies and choose to live the lives we deserve. “Creating Your Own Destiny” breaks down the achievement of your destiny into four steps: Dream, Plan, Execute, and Soar. Patrick Snow takes the reader through each of these steps, beginning with dreaming or visualizing what the reader wants because “Only those who can see the invisible, can achieve the impossible!” Snow pres numerous exercises and thoughtful questions to help you decide what you want out of life, and he gives extensive details on how to achieve these goals. He reminds us it isn’t that people plan to fail but that they fail to plan which causes them to be stuck in jobs they hate while living paycheck to paycheck. To back up his program, Snow pres numerous examples of people who have become successful, and he lists many resources beyond his book, which include his own coaching services, Creating Your Own Destiny University, many other books, websites, and professional services to help you achieve your dreams. One of the key points Patrick Snow focuses upon is how over fifty percent of Americans are unhappy at work, and how the corporate 9-5 model no longer pres security for workers. He enforces the importance of having multiple streams of income, and he teaches the reader how to create these multiple streams of income by following his passions rather than working a job he hates to make an employer rich. Snow advocates self-employment, emphasizing that the only way a person will truly be rewarded for his talents is to own his own business. His chapter on using the Internet to grow a home-based business is one of the best resources I have ever read for Internet marketing. Snow gives examples of how to execute your plans a little every day, so over time you will succeed. I especially liked his suggestion to plan as if you only had thirty days left to live so you have a sense of urgency to create your destiny. He also emphasizes that happiness is not just about money and that we must also make time to nurture our health, spend time with family, and follow our higher calling. What I find most imive about “Creating Your Own Destiny” are the examples of real-life people Patrick Snow uses, especially examples from his own life. The reader may be tempted to say, “Sure, Patrick, it’s easy for you to tell us what to do; you’re already successful.” But Patrick Snow has had an incredible journey that led him to his success. Throughout the book, he bravely shares many details of his life–how his dreams of playing college football were destroyed by an injury, how he has been laid off from work, how he has had his utilities turned off for non-payment and how he nearly lost his home; despite these difficulties, he never lost sight of his vision to succeed. He is now one of the greatest motivational speakers alive today, and his book has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Most importantly, he talks about overcoming fear and self-doubt; what a loss to the world if he had let his fears prevent him from writing this book, a book thousands have declared to be a great inspiration to them. I highly recommend “Creating Your Own Destiny.” I do not doubt it will be a classic in the field of self-help and inspiration beside “Think and Grow Rich”, “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and “Ask and It Is Given.” If you want to live a happier, richer, more empowering life, go out and buy this book! – Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D., and author of the award-winning “Narrow Lives”