Smiles - Love louder: 33 ways to amplify your life

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LOVE LOUDER:

Preston Smiles is one of the true emerging leaders of our time. He carries a vision of a sacred world and inspires others to take action to manifest it.

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith

Preston Smiles is unstoppable! His passion and unique way of making the complicated simple make Love Louder a gift for any reader who wants practical tools for taking on lifes daily challenges.

Jack Canfield, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and The Success Principles

Preston Smiles slaps you in the face with lifes forgotten truths. His infectious energy leaves you feeling refreshed and awakened to your own path of possibility. While fully invoking his masculinity, it is his caring, sensitive, and loving nature that makes him a true man and a hero to many. I am blessed to call Preston a friend.

Britt Hysen, founder of Millennial Magazine

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smiles, Preston, author.

Title: Love louder : 33 ways to amplify your life / by Preston Smiles.

Description: New York, NY : North Star Way, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015049277 | ISBN 9781501120145 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Conduct of life. | Self-realization. | Love. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness. | SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem.

Classification: LCC BJ1589 .S645 2016 | DDC 158--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049277

ISBN 9781501120145

ISBN 9781501120152 (ebook)

This book is dedicated to my amazing Queen Alexi Panos for her ceaseless love and dedication to life.

For my mother, Jackie; father, Preston; sister, Shalea; and all of my immediate and distant family.

To all my spiritual teachers, who include all the saints and sages of all religions, every bully that I fought, every coach, principal, mentor, and counselor who believed in me, all the Love Mobbers, and all the amazing people whom Ive encountered along my journey.

D o you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and stressed out more often than youd like to admit? Being stalked by your inner critic, the one constantly telling you youre not good enough? Have you been waiting for your life to take off, but have no clue how to make that happen? Well, youre not alone; in fact, many people feel the same way. Weve gotten so caught up buying the newest gadgets, keeping up with our Facebook and Instagram accounts, and paying the bills that weve lost our way. If youre ready to take your life to the next level, then youve found the perfect book, or the perfect book has found you. You see, I dont believe in mistakes. I believe that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and that sometimes following your heart means losing your mind. It means letting go of whats logical and moving into the unknown, or at least that which goes against what youve been taught.

In Love Louder, you will learn how to radically embrace life, breaking through personal barriers and moving forward with confidence and passion. This book was written to help you get out of your own way and live the life youre meant to live. Its comprised of thirty-three timeless tools that have supported thousands of people in regaining their center and getting what life is all about: love. I like to think of these wisdom nuggets as guideposts or flashing lights on a dark night, leading you home... to you.

You will get maximum value out of Love Louder if you stay out of a right-or-wrong, agree-or-disagree attitude and simply try things on as they pertain to your life. And dont feel that you have to read this chronologically. Keep it with you, read a chapter, and work on that lesson for a week. Think of it as a toolbox at your disposal, to continually crack open and apply. The only thing I strongly warn against is just racing through this, trying to consume another self-help book. I challenge you to apply everything that you read to your own life and see for yourself whether these tools work.

I wrote this book because I had to. I know firsthand what it feels like to feel lost, stressed, and overwhelmed by life. Over the last ten years Ive been on a mission to discover and uncover what creates lasting happiness in humans. In that time, Ive traveled all over the world immersing myself in ancient wisdom and applying it to my life.

I learned through countless workshops, thousands of books, hundreds of flights all over the world, that no matter what the question is, LOVE is the answer. Without a shadow of a doubt, I know that when you amplify your love, you automatically amplify your life. Loving louder is about answering that inner call, no matter how weird, obscure, or off the beaten path it may seem. Each of us was made on purpose, with a purpose, and its our duty to get out of our own way to fulfill that which is burning in our hearts.

Trust your dreams, your heart, and the journey of life... even when you dont understand it.

S ome people get so caught up in the destination that they miss that life is about the journey. Theyre so focused on the finish line that they miss that the beauty is in what and who you become on the way to the destination. Ive received so many blessings in disguise in the form of health scares, people passing away, breakups, breakdowns, and so much more; and the thing that has supported me most is trusting in the journey . There is always more than meets the eye in every situation; and when we trust and have faith that all is well, even when it doesnt appear to be, we open ourselves up to new possibilities that we can apply in our lives.

When we trust the journey of life, wholly and completely, we dont need to know what is unfolding or why; we simply need to be present to the experience of it. Trusting the journey means that even if we dont understand whats unfolding right now, we have an unshakable belief that its happening because circumstances are rearranging themselves for our highest good. It means knowing that for every door that closes, a window of opportunity opens. Ive noticed that many people get so down about the front doors slamming in their face that they miss the open window and the back door that swung open at the same time.