Is There More To Empowering Your Life?

About the Book

This book is about self-motivation of the mind and soul, understanding how to deal with the complexities of life’s situations.  By first mastering and being in command of the minds fundamentals stages of distress.  Identifying the cause of negative source and creating an environment of positive mental reinforcement.  Discover endless possibilities for happiness by following very simple guidelines.  Knowing where to start searching to make sense of what we do not understand in our lives when every aspect of it is touched and affected in one-way or another through religion, science, politics, health, philosophy, and history.

This is the most inspirational of thoughts and feeling to surface the pages of a book, from the deepest boundaries of my soul.  When I wrote this book, there was no selfish thoughts of getting rich or becoming prominent. It is written with the intention to inspire ideas of self-motivation.  To make readers understand that self-accomplishment starts with peace of mind.  The book gives the reader the basic tools of what it takes to begin a successful life.  With the very essential things they already possess. During the reading of this book and all up to the end, it leaves no doubt in my mind that it will ignite inspiring thoughts to the reader and send an urgent need to begin  looking for a different path to exceed any present conditions.

There are many different ways people measure success.  Some say it is by the position you hold on a job or public office.  Others, by the amount of wealth you obtain or the people you know.  Success however matters nothing if you are not happy by the time your head hits the pillow.  How do you measure success?

About the Author

As an immigrant from Guatemala City, Arriving to the US at the tender age of seven, with two other siblings, my-self being one of the youngest until several years later when my youngest sister was born and having parents that spoke only Spanish.  I would say made it incredibly difficult to grow up in Providence R.I where the environment for minorities seemed unfairly at times.  In 1978, I had open-heart surgery to correct a valve that was closing.  Little did I know then I could have dropped dead at anytime.  I did not understand until decades later how fortunate I was to have lived through those awful times.  My understanding of the English language and fluency was not yet clear to me until I reached the fifth grade. 

I began to realize that if I had a witty personality, relating to others was a breeze.  Making other kids laugh and giving out a feeling of comfort earn me a free pass to making friends quickly, thus allowing me to concentrate on my education with little distractions.  It was after eight-grade graduation where my true-life learning experience began.  My first semester in High school was a different story all together.  I probably attended two weeks at best. 

It was not difficult at all staying away from drugs in school.  I guess it seemed that every time I said no, there was no second chance, the offer was usually consumed before I had time to think about it a second time.  Violence however, changed my mind about staying in school.  Students were assaulted at random for whatever reason; eventually everyone had a brush with this sort of behavior.  When my time came to confront this ritual, I did not even see it coming.  At least five people attacked me.  The physical attack felt like it ended so quickly, I thought they were being gentle, until I got home, so many lumps on my head and my first black eye.  I was so proud of it, I did not know why.  Later on that day, I gathered up a few senior friends for a friendly returned visit but to my dismay, my assailants were nowhere to be found. 

My guess was they did not realize their friends were my friends also and this display of violence was an unapproved incident.  I was never confronted again but too late for my education and me.  I decided to drop out.  I left the wonderful government school system and was lost for several years.  I felt like a lost case, thinking who would hire anyone with an eight-grade education.  The thought of getting a GED at the time was not even mention to me until the age of eighteen or nineteen but by then I was already working at an auto body shop as prep helper. 

I hated reading; I would only read things that would be of interest to me like some of the articles of GQ or auto magazines.  I began to envision myself like those men in the GQ magazine, and what car I would drive from the Auto Magazine.  I knew I had to do more that just labor.  I wanted to be the man who employed.  Twelve years later, that is exactly what I became.  I am now Vice president for two different companies and I want to inspire all readers of this book that if you want to get anywhere in life you must envision yourself there first.  You live your days with the schedule of contributing something to the future you envision your-self living in.  With that method, this became my story and the purpose of this book.