Bernardo Moya - 123 Ways to Look at Life

AUTHOR Bernardo Moya

TRANSLATOR Jessica Epstein

EDITOR Matthew Wingett

REVISION AND INDEXING Paz Cabo

COVER DESIGN Laura Thomson

LAYOUT Duento

IMAGES Shutterstock And Fotolia (Standard License)

ILLUSTRATIONS Luis Serrano

PRODUCTION Bernardo Moya

Published in 2014 by The Best You Ediciones, 3rd. Floor, 5 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DG.

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A word of thanks to all who have purchased this book and have given me the opportunity to enter your lives, to allow me to help you in some way.

I would like to thank my beloved wife, Julia, for all the support, trust, and love she has always bestowed upon me. She has been my mast, my sail, my rudder, and my compass. And I thank my childrenMax, Lucci, and Gigiwho are my pride and legacy.

My most sincere gratitude to my friends for your support, and to my mother Antonia for being so strong, so brave, and amazing. I owe her and her unconditional love so much, in many ways

In conclusion, thank you to all those who have supported and inspired me, and to the great thinkers who have given us such relevant and significant quotations.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Anonymous.

During pivotal times such as the ones we are living in, when everything seems to be sinking beneath our feet and we struggle to find answers; when we live in a world that seemed stable and lasting until a few decades ago, one in which hundreds of civilisations have matured and amassed a body of knowledge which we have inherited, yet we lose some of it daily; when we live on a beautiful planet with a sun, a moon and oceans which have always claimed our love and which today we are concerned about potentially losing; in a time such as this, so fragile, we must change our perspective, and books such as 123 Ways to Look at Life , by Bernardo Moya, are simply essential.

There are books which, upon having read them, we feel we are finished, and other books that live on in our memory. Some of the things we read arrive during crucial times in our lives and leave their mark on us, whereas others we scarcely remember because they were never really important. This book is directed to those who want to go through life truly living it, and not feeling as if they barely made it through. Bernardo Moya is known as one of the top professionals in the field of personal development. He is profoundly committed to education and growth, offering parents, professors, educators, businesspeople, and other individuals the necessary resources to help bring out the best in others.

Bernardo Moya emphasises the need, in this day and age more than ever, to have a positive attitude and the absolute confidence that personal objectives, dreams, and projects can be fulfilled.

123 Ways to Look at Life offers us keys to reprogramming our false and limiting beliefs. It leads us towards our goals, and convincingly shows us that we are travelling on the right path. It helps us to regain our true priorities through motivation, trust, love, and focusing on the true meaning of life.

This brief book, packed full of advice and quotes which affirm the marvellous culture which each and every one of us is a part of, invites us to drink fully from the cup of life, to enjoy it, and to play an active role within a collective of ideas, projects, and dreams which can lead us, together, towards new ways of feeling, learning, and looking at life. In brief, it allows us to enter into ourselves, in a brave yet subtle exploration, to discover our own confidence, our motivation, to determine what our priorities are, and to see what in our life has turned into a burden that we need to let go of.

This book is made up of short chapters, each with advice and quotes, and is a sort of manual in user-friendly terms, humorous and persuasive. It draws on great thoughts expressed in the classics and by other contemporary authors. It includes narratives on personal discovery such as Never Give Up, Observe, Accept, Be Like Water, Be Useful, Visualise, Listen; sections on creativity and the internal struggle, among which the following stand out: Be More Charismatic, Enjoy Life, Results, Accept and EmbraceCriticism; passages on emotions, such as Happiness, Beauty, Have a Laugh, Inner Smile; and many others addressing our confidence, family, love, charisma, friendship, time, and enjoyment of life. Bernardo Moya teaches, helps, mentors, inspires and convinces us!

One of the notable qualities of the books written by Bernardo Moya and one of the priorities of his publishers is their exclusively digital format. This allows the readers more room to cultivate their emotions with the aid of images which seem to live within the authors words. This virtual proximity to ones own thoughts allows us as the reader to enter into ourselves and to visualise our feelings. The accompanying audio book, read in a pleasant voice, is part of this process.

Perhaps it is the time for transformation, for revolution, as has been suggested by lex Rovira; the time when crisis is an opportunity; the time for reinventing ourselves, for being reborn from our ashes, like the phoenix; for reprogramming our lives and our objectives, for becoming better, for re-feeling emotions we thought were forgotten; for recovering our imagination, for being stronger, for embracing and creating new projects. Certainly it may be time to see the future as Bernardo Moya recommendssmiling at life and letting go, at last, of the superfluous and of the limitations that make us feel small letting them go like those helium balloons that would slip through our fingers when we were children. Now we have 123 positive per spectives on life.

Paz Cabo

Editor, The Best You Ediciones

123 is for those who are looking for ideas, inspiration, guidance, motivation, and spark in their lives.

123 aims to provoke a reaction, to make you a little uncomfortable.

Seneca said: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

123 Ways to Look at Life is for those who are seeking ideas expressed in a short and powerful way, because few words to the wise are sufficient. My priority is to make you think. I want to pique your curiosity, to help you question yourself, to dig deep, to think about what would happen if

Having read from great authors and having attended professional courses through which I have tried to improve as a person, my desire with this book is to embed ideas, quotes, and techniques in your mind which will help you enjoy life more and to value what you have.

Thanks to this book, I have been able to see and appreciate the fact that, even though I am along in years, I still have much to learn.

This book is meant to help place value on the most important things. In these times of uncertainty, of tension, of difficulties, we must be focused on the small but significant things that make us what we are. Whatever problem we may be faced with, in the end its these fundamental things that count.