Art of the Struggle (eBook)

The 5 Incontrovertible Laws for Transformation, Success and Fulfillment

Reggie Flowers (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
Manifold Grace Publishing House, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-937400-71-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The Art of the Struggle is a personal blueprint and strategies designed to reveal the art within your struggle, harness its power, and propel your transformation, achievement and fulfillment. Reginald illustrates the fundamental strategies and solutions through 5 simple laws. The 5 Laws outlined in the book are: Law of Embrace- For Improvement to Occur You Must Welcome It Law of Engage- You Must Be a Part of Your Own Rescue Law of Equip- You Need the Right Tools for The Right Job Law of Empower- You Must Fuel Your Progress Law of Elevate- Growth Impacts Everyone Around You Reginald uses real-world experiences from his life as well as the lives of Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry and others to highlight each law. This book will remove the mental fog, destroy fear, and encourage greatness within you.

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The Art of the Struggle embodies fundamental concepts of Reginald's laws to overcoming life's struggles and unlocking your inner-greatness. Reginald Flowers depicts his own personal fall from success into the metaphorical "e;jungle of struggle"e; to reclaiming his life, purpose, vision, and blossoming back to success. It's very apparent "e;the struggle is real."e; Whether you are struggling with love, health, work or business, this book will help you be triumphant. Reginald takes you on a journey through the five laws that provide a systematic strategy to turnaround anything you may be struggling with. Reginald uses life to highlight each law's consequence. Reginald's ability to breakdown some of the most challenging issues into 5 bit-sized nuggets of wisdom and a simple strategy to implement, impact, and influence the life you deserve is transformational. The 5 Laws outlined in the book are:Law of Embrace- For Transformation to Occur You Must Welcome ItLaw of Engage- You Must Be a Part of Your Own RescueLaw of Equip- You Need the Right Tools for The Right JobLaw of Empower- You Must Fuel Your ProgressLaw of Elevate- Growth Impacts Everyone Around YouThe Art of the Struggle is more than a how-to. It's a reader's universal blueprint to strategically redefine struggle and harness its power to catapult life-long transformation, achievement, and fulfillment.

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Introduction

 

Progress is essential to your happiness and wellbeing. It’s one of the most gratifying emotions one can experience in a lifetime. Progress fuels desire. It suggests increase. It yearns for excitement. It attracts possibility. Progress encourages you to take on your next journey. It aids in your ability to feel as though everything you’ve sacrificed thus far was worth it. Progress is a required need of mankind. Investing time wisely becomes a priority to you. Ultimately, you have never felt more alive than you do when you’re in the presence of progress. We all have the potential to experience progress consistently in our lives. Progress isn’t just given to those who desire it; it’s given to those who deserve it.

What about regress? It is an opposing force of progress. When the markets crashed in 2008, millions of Americans were economically devastated. People, for the first time, found themselves unwillingly becoming regressive. 401Ks were reduced to 200.5Ks. Property values were significantly depreciated. Foreclosures were at an all-time high. When someone said job security in conversation, people would listen with anticipation for the punch line. This era validated the deconstruction of the American Dream. You and I were told to go to school, get an education, and find a great job. This was a strategy for long term job, and retirement; security.

Millions were dumbfounded. They couldn’t understand why they were being penalized for obedience. The hard-working couple that bought a home in the right community and saved their money or the single mother who worked two or three jobs to put herself through night school and graduate college; couldn’t understand. “The struggle is real” is a phrase that has now become a statement that described the experiences of millions.

Either you are moving forward or you are going backwards, what you are not doing is standing still. I think we both can agree; no one wants to experience constant defeats or failures.

It would be my pleasure to extend an invitation for you to join me on one of the most incredible, figuratively speaking, roller coaster rides from broke to riches and back to being broke while working back to riches - again. My ride began just before my 20th birthday. During this time, I was a full-time college student attending Oakland University. I was your typical pre-med biology major, bombarded with coursework and studying which left very little time for a social life. My goal was to become an orthopedic surgeon; I often chuckled when people asked what inspired me to pursue being a doctor?

My answer was quite simple. My mother had two college degrees, so it was expected (demanded) of me to at least get one. I desired to be successful and I was pretty good at math and science so, I’ll be a doctor. I went online to do some research and googled the top five earning physicians in the medical field. (Yes it was teenage logic!) If I’m not mistaken, I think orthopedics was either number one or number two. Since I had an athletic background, the concept of working on bones just made sense.

I shadowed physicians at the beginning of my sophomore year and by the end of the year I no longer wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. What happened? Can you believe some of the doctors were working between 12 to 36 hour shifts? I thought to myself this is crazy, there are only 24 hours in a day and I will be working 36 of them. At this point I knew in my heart of hearts that being an orthopedic surgeon wasn’t for me.

Within a matter of weeks after the decision to change my career path, my mother received a phone call from a stranger out of New York. She had found my mother’s contact information online and gave her a call. Keep in mind this was in 2004, personal information wasn’t readily available like it is in 2016. Phyllis (the stranger) informed my mother that an article featuring her was on the front page of her local newspaper in New York. At that time my mother was living in the small city of Port Huron, located in Michigan. The local newspaper was just that, a local newspaper. It wasn’t clear to my mother, or I, how this article made it to upstate New York.

The article was titled “Ex-cop, Retired Social Worker Heavily Involved in the Community”. In the article, my mother was quoted regarding her concerns about Gen Y and millennials being unable to successfully retire with pensions and social security benefits. Phyllis (the New Yorker), felt compelled to reach out and see if my mother was open to an opportunity to earn additional money outside of what she was currently making. My mother explained to Phyllis that she was not interested at the moment, but she told Phyllis that her son was looking for something different.

I remember that Monday evening vividly. I had just returned from the Oakland Center; or the OC which was the hub of student activity; after studying for a biology test. After only being in my dorm room for an hour, this strange number with the 716 area code showed up on my caller ID. Typically I don’t take phone calls from numbers I don’t recognize, but that evening I was led by Holy Spirit to answer the phone and I did. After small talk, Phyllis asked me to join a presentation call in a couple of hours that evening. She recommended that I try to get someone on this call with me. I immediately called my best friend and told him to join the conference call. He did and we both listened to the presentation that evening. Before the call was even remotely close to being over; something was different. Instinctively I knew that my life would never be the same. Have you ever had that feeling you could not explain, but you knew everything about your life was about to change for the better? That’s what happened to me. I felt it deep down in my soul.

The information I received was so inspirational, it was unlike anything I had ever experienced in my life. Feeling overwhelmed with excitement was an understatement. I didn’t have any doubts that God was answering a prayer. After my decision to discontinue my pre-med major I had prayed to God seeking direction and clarity.

On the call, I was introduced to two wealth principles: residual income and leveraged income. I also heard testi-monies from average people who were making more in one month than they used to earn in an entire year.

After the conference call I got back on the phone with Phyllis and she asked me a series of questions to qualify my interest. I told her that I loved everything I heard and wanted to know more. The only challenge was I didn’t have the initial capital to get started. She told me that wasn’t a problem, and the next step was to get on the phone with the presenter who happened to be a multimillionaire. This was the first time I’d had the opportunity to speak to a millionaire. I can’t deny that I was quite nervous, but Phyllis did such a phenomenal job introducing Mrs. Davis to me. It helped me feel comfortable getting on the phone and speaking with her.

The conversation between Mrs. Davis and I went from a phone introduction to a series of events and has transcended into a lifelong friendship. The events started with me looking for airfare from Michigan to California, which I only had 72 hours to book, all while doing it as your typical financially strapped college student. No job. No income. And definitely, no assets. I had to quickly find and employ a strategy to get the money. So I had to rely on a best-kept secret. The ATM at the bank of Mom. I asked if she would give me the money. For the first time in my life, mom didn’t have the extra money to send me to California. Now I’m worried.

As a matter of fact, she suggested that she could send me to Africa for less than California. I called Phyllis back, and with worry evidenced in my voice, told her my dilemma. I distinctly remember her saying this to me, “Boy…. don’t call me back until you find a way.” Phyllis proceeded to hang up on me. I thought, who does this woman think she is? Then I remembered that she was successful, I was financially broke and she was interested in helping me change my circumstances. I searched online for hours running multiple itinerary scenarios and finally I landed a round-trip flight leaving Detroit International airport and arriving in Santa Ana for $268. Boom! It was on!

 

THE RISE

 

I returned from the convention excited and ready to go. My mother was late paying some of her bills to help me get the startup capital. I enrolled immediately as a new distributor. I had a private business reception at my home with 19 of my closest friends and family. That evening 17 of my friends did not feel like this business was for them. I felt slightly discouraged, but I was determined to prove to them that this was what I thought it was.

After being in business for 18 days I was able to recoup my initial investment. By my 30th day, I earned an additional $1700. Over the next year everything seemed to be going well. During this time, I found out that I was going to be the father of a little girl. I found myself very frustrated because I wasn’t earning the type of money that would allow me to continue my business full-time and provide for my family. So, I quit. I didn’t contact Phyllis or Mrs. Davis, I just left, quietly. I was embarrassed and ashamed. They both believed in me deeply, but my belief in myself dissipated. I think that was the first, and only, time I attempted to give up on my dreams.

Seems like the newspaper always brought me luck, and so my search for a job began. Once again the local newspaper helped me. I found a job as a car salesman. Business at the dealership was...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-937400-71-9 / 1937400719
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937400-71-2 / 9781937400712