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Publishing services provided by Church House Publisher Jackson, Mississippi  Printed in the United States of America            In this text, our goal is to present a clear and concise path to true success in life. We will consider success in the view and in reference to the eternal terms of living. How does God view success for man and woman? Are we victims of a blind fate or do we determine what our own successes and destinies. Or, are we just victims of own circumstances?  Do we really determine what is success for us? Does society determine it? Are we the captain of our souls, the master of our fate? Does a person success determine another person success or our successes in living determine by how others succeed? Or, does a man and woman success reflects the success of another man or woman? In other words, what is successful for one person, can this be true success for another? Is what we call success on our terms today really success in the eternals terms? There are these issues and more issues for consideration before us in this text. We will examine the bottom line of success. Where did modern success ideas come in the western world? What the philosophers have had to say about what we call success? Again, Is what we call success really success in the eyes of the Eternal Mind? You will unlikely observe in this text at times a rather constant phase– that is, ‘success in eternal terms.’ What are these eternal terms? As we unfold each chapter of study in the art of success and modern living, another constant fact will be, ‘Living Successfully’ ‘How to get the most out of living.’ I pray and hope this will become a rewarding course of study and action for you and the journey embarked upon will brings beneficial and lasting results. This book is dedicated to those seeking the true meaning and perspective of life and living. In these days of great human stress, worry, uncertainties and pursues of life in what we call a modern world, there is a great need for clear directives as given by the Creator to find a clear and right path for us to follow. That path can only be known in the light of God’s directives, guidance and wisdom. We will make many references to the Bible (translations in the King James Version, New King James Version and The Living Bible). The Bible references about living and it’s teachings about success and the good life. Our Creator designed life. Is it not He who is best qualified to defined true success in life and right living and thinking? Does not our Creator have the key to a complete and rewarding life upon this planet? Is it not that our Creator can lift us above the chance and circumstances of living? Is it not Our Creator the One who teaches us and helps us to get the most out of living? We shall discover how to get out of debt and how to live a stress free life. In essence, the book is designed to help the reader to start really living the life of their desires and dreams. We perhaps could have title this book Creating Your Own Destiny; but it really is about How to Get Exactly What You Want Out of Life, and How to find the ultimate success path for those of us who are low and high achievers. This book is for anyone who wants more out of life! Most people want to get more worth, meaning, more fulfillments, more time, more money, more freedom, more health, more love, and more happiness in life. Creating one’s own destiny through the principles taught in this book will be an aid if you consider the things given in the text as a simple path of success and it is a revealed path to more abundant living. We offer this book for your greater fulfillment and rewards in living a complete life. Hopefully, one will search their inner soul for the meaning necessary to apply simple directives provided in the text. We hope there will emerge simple strategies that will help you get what you ultimately want out of life in one reading of the text. In turn, this purpose-minded text on succeeding is set to make a difference if carefully considered.  Is building money prosperity the only effort to be made for prosperity in success? To understand what is true prosperity requires very little effort. If a person is struggling to get true prosperity and the most out of living, they’re going about it the wrong way. Hopefully, in this text, we will learn to relax and allow prosperity to come to us and learn how to change our life from struggle to daily fulfillments and rewards in living. I guarantee you will never be the same after one reading. Success can come into your reach if you have not experience it. Your success’ desire can become reachable within the pages of this book’s text.  Introduction  This is not a series of lectures, essays, sermons or speeches on success. But rather this text is about a serious and pensive consideration of living successfully and getting the most out of living. Its approach is sound, basic and proven thought and a method that has comes from the heart of study over life and seeking life best outcome. The moral message and technical methods (at some times it may appear very technical) are all proven in the lives of thousands of successful people. These methods are only principles of life to be employed for success in living. It is really not about who is the greatest, or who was more purpose driven to do the most in life or the less. I believe success in life lies more in the right principles of life than in the driven purpose for living. Life on this planet is a one-way street and sooner or later it reaches a dead-end. Each individual must reckon with his or her self as to their best returns in whatever course of life they take. It is quite obvious that we as individuals did not receive the same calling, task or mission in living. Each human being is a designed copy by the Creator and we must insist that the Creator unlikely designed us so differently that when He finish with one, He threw the blueprint away and create another blueprint. Many people spend their lives searching for themselves and measuring their lives by others success. They really think true success is to acquire tremendous financial wealth. Unfortunately, this is the mark of being successful in the western world and perhaps many other parts of the world. People seek every external means and resources that can give them what they want financially, and ultimately they are very disappointed when their financial dreams don’t turn out the way they had planned. They sometimes become very wealthy at the expense of their inner and spiritual wholeness. They may lose family and friends in the search, or they may never acquire the riches they have aspired to, and in their disappointment, they discover they’ve lost all sense of self-worth and being. The spirit and message of this book is an approach to achieving spiritual wealth, financial wealth and above all a sense of well being in all our achievements. We shall focus on success in eternal terms and the inner worth, success in the terms of its relationship to meaningful living. We will determine the strength and knowledge learned from living life within eternal terms and hopefully we may presently a process to create our own worth and ability to change things for a better outcome in living. Hopefully, this book will place in your hands and life personal enlightenment for wealth in body, mind, and spirit. When thinking of “Living Successfully” in this life there must come to mind, what is success? First, in defining success, the Philosopher Aristotle stated, “success is the best thing a man can do with his life. In order to obtain this success one must have a goal, or objective for their life. Success does not mean wealth or power, or having virtue without exercising that virtue.”  In Aristotle’s day, there was a Nicomachean Ethics that stated there are three reasons for living. One, this theses stated a reason for living was enjoying refined pleasures, which is best defined as a life of pleasure and pleasant amusement. Aristotle reply to this ethical point was “that no one in their right mind would chose that life.” Immature fun, such as that which children enjoy, living in order to sleep, eat, have sex, or work is an unfulfilling and unrewarding job to live as life only reward for being successful. Two, the second reason to live is to earn a good name for yourself in your own eyes and in the eyes of the community, such as a career in public service. Thirdly, the ethics taught one to appreciate and understand the universe in which we find ourselves, such as a philosopher or thinker would do in life. Everyone will choose one of these three ways of life (as this ethics taught). However, one must have a personal and financial independence to do either of these choices. So, to experience either of these paths of success what one would say they are successful based upon one of the three paths mentioned. Looking again at these three thoughts, are we really successful having the good life of success these ways? "Happiness" equals "success" and "success" equals "blessing." Success (eudaimonia in the Greek) is translated as happiness in English, and happy (makarios) is translated as blessed, or enjoying a share of the divine life, livings like a god. However, happiness comes from the original Hebrew word, “hap” meaning, and a “chance.” Happiness is a word of chance. In other words, to be happy depends upon the state of affairs one may be in at the time. One can only be happy when the condition is favorable. When the condition is unfavorable, happiness is not found. Man is the one earth creature that can experience happiness in degrees. Aristotle taught that animals couldn’t enjoy success, because they have no share of the divine, and the gods enjoy a different type of ideal existence than animals. In order to attain success you must use your skills and knowledge to pursue certain objectives for the sake of higher goals and objectives. For example, a human can either: accomplish one objective, such as running a mile, and accomplish another objective for a higher purpose, that is being in shape and good health it brings to run. In success the single highest objective in life is to live well and do well. This is being successful. This places success in living within all our reach. An objective in success in the highest degree is only worth pursuing if in success we find a good well being or as we find what we would call “wholeness in living. This achieved is truly getting the most out of living!” Achieving this state of being in life is success whether life is lived long or short. Longevity in life has merit, but fulfillment in life out weighs longevity says most of the philosophers. Purchase Book Living Successfully, How to Get the Most out of Living "Taking your faith serious "   Book Details Order now shipped within 24 hours!