Design Your Own Life

Step-by-step advice to start living out your biggest dreams Design Your Own Life: Practical Advice and Powerful Insights to Shape Your Destiny imparts a straightforward 12-step approach to design your perfect life: one that is full of not only career success, but also authentic fulfillment and happiness. Relying on author Michael Pilarczyk’s remarkable life story as well as interviews from more than 3,400 people between the ages of 15 to 30, both those searching for meaning and those already on their way to fulfillment, this book moves past empty motivation and instead unlocks the door to real, transformative, and impactful action. Some of the ideas explored in this book include: Early life socio-emotional conditioning and its impact on your current behaviors and thought patterns Intelligence versus knowledge and the serious mistake of confusing one for the other Thought as a catalyst for creation and how to free ourselves from worst-case-scenario fantasies Meditation as a gateway to the part of yourself often called your “higher consciousness” Design Your Own Life is a must-read for those seeking to rapidly conquer the learning curve of life and find themselves living out their ideal existence, no matter where they start from or how high they hope to climb.

Introduction 1 Why I Wrote This Book for You 1 The Book I Wish I Had When I Was Younger 2 Answers to Your Questions 3 Your Assignments 5 This Book Isn't for Everyone–But It Is for You 5 Part I Discover Who You Are 7 Chapter 1 About Me 9 Chapter 2 Getting to Know Yourself Better 21 Chapter 3 Making Good Choices 41 Chapter 4 Understanding How Your Thoughts Work 57 Part II Peace of Mind 85 Chapter 5 No Stress! 87 Chapter 6 What Are You Afraid of? 101 Chapter 7 Peace of Mind 115 Part III Choose Your Own Future 127 Chapter 8 Choosing Your Direction 129 Chapter 9 Who Do You Want to Be? 151 Chapter 10 Money Mindset 179 Chapter 11 The Road to Success 207 Chapter 12 The Strategy 227 Acknowledgments 249 About the Author 251 Index 253