Panos Alexi - Now or never: your epic life in 5 steps: the bridge from where you are to where you want to be

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Real isnt how you are made... Its a thing that happens to you.

It doesnt happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. Thats why it doesnt often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things dont matter at all, because once you are Real you cant be ugly, except to people who dont understand.

Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

W ell, well, well, look whos here. Hello, you sexy beast! We couldnt be more excited to share this journey with you. Our excitement comes from knowing that, whether you know it or not, youve just committed to blowing past ordinary to embrace the extraordinary life that is yours to claim. Youve picked up a book thats about leaving behind the mundane to step into the magical.

Weve broken it down into five powerful steps.

You always have a choice.

Be radically responsible.

Act now.

Own who you are.

Have a blast.

The five steps are really quite simple, yet extraordinarily profound. If you master even ONE of these, we can almost guarantee that your experience of life will shift dramatically. Start putting all five into practice? Well, that combination just might set off a ripple effect of goodness throughout your entire universe that changes you forever.

Weve come to understand that the answer to all of your problems is the same: YOU. Now, so often we say that we want our lives to be different; we yearn to have more and to be better. And you certainly deserve all of that. But the only person who can deliver this to you IS YOU. You are the sole author of your life, and instead of searching for your happiness in a new person, a new job, a new city, a new home, or new clothes, weve laid out the formula to create inner happiness from within. (Then anything external is a bonussweet!) And the beauty is, you have everything you need to create inner greatness right now . No matter what job you have, what partnership youre in or not in, how much you do or do not have in the bankyou can start from right where you are and create some magic with these five steps.

Were living in new times, with humans facing a set of challenges that no other generation has ever had to face. Technology has changed just about everything, and yet some things remain: our will to thrive and grow into the greatest versions of ourselves. Yet so many of us walk around like zombies staring into little minicomputers, oblivious to whats actually happening in and around us. We live in a time when its quite literally NOW or never. Where we either choose to find a way or to fade away.

Most people have bought into the lie that someday is where its atthat their dream life is somewhere off in the futurebut your life is not out there in someday land. Its right here, and its ready for the taking. We wrote this book for those of you serious about answering the call. We wrote it for those of you who are tired of bullshitting your life away and are ready to step it up in all areas... powerfully .

A little background on us. Weve been traveling the globe leading workshops, speaking, writing books, and making videos like wild banshees because we love, love, love the human experience and feel it is our duty to leave as many people as possible with tools that will support them in living their best lives now. And by now, we mean NOW. Because we live in a time where people are more depressed and resigned from their lives than theyve ever been.

Weve been gifted with the unique ability to make the complex simple and tangible for everyday people desiring to change themselves for the better. In our work, weve found that the fear of not having or being enough prevents so many from seeing that they already are enough.

This book isnt going to stroke your ego and tell you that those ineffective patterns of yours are A-okay. Its not going to tell you that a few positive affirmations will get you to the life youve always dreamed of. No, this is a book that is going to meet you where you really are, challenge you to take yourself on, give you the tools to move through your life powerfully, and change the way you look at personal development forever. Big claim? Yes. But well stand behind it, because weve worked with thousands of people all over the globe who are living proof of this.

Do we promise that your life will be amazing every day after reading this book? No, life is impartial, and it will go on doing its life thing. The beautiful, the ugly, the profane, and the profoundlife includes it ALL. The truth is, no one has a finite answer to the infinite nature of life. We dont know WHY certain things happen, and we cant explain and justify everything. However, we can show up to lifes uncertainties in a powerful way, with tools that can help shape and create our reality.

So now that you know a little bit about why we wrote this book, lets jump into the pieces that will pull this whole thing together.

The first step is a reminder that you always have a choice. This part is all about awareness, and how with awareness, you have the key to unlock your inner greatness. Well go into a few key distinctions that will give you the ability to really catch yourself in the act and get real about how youve been showing up to life. It all starts here, and if you can flex that awareness muscle, you can then create anything.

In the second step well dive into what it means to be radically responsible . Well be exploring victim consciousness and the possibility that you may be creating, allowing, or perpetuating everything that is showing up in your experience. Well also be opening up how the language you use is critical to your success in life.

Step 3 is all about action . Its a reminder that if youre committed to living a life of joy, abundance, and courage, then you must take massive action. In this chapter, well give you the tools to use in stressful, high-pressure situations, and well explore how to use your pain and ultimately turn it into power.

Some people play a role for so long that the role begins to play them. In step 4, Own Who You Are, well dive deep into the importance of discovering your driving forces so you can get clear on what moves you, what it means to be transparent and live your truth, decoding why goals are BS, and how you can deal with comparison when it shows its ugly face.