Take Charge and Change Your Life Today! written by Trevor Bolin
Description
Do you feel your life is at a crossroads or at a breaking point? What’s the next step? In Take Charge and Change Your Life Today!, author Trevor Bolin, provides a roadmap for improving yourself and your life.
Based on his own rags-to-riches story, Bolin discusses a host of techniques to help you achieve success, make better decisions and reach your goals. He shows how success is based on attitude—you determine your life’s outcome based on your thoughts and actions. Take Charge and Change Your Life Today! demonstrates how to:
- Change your attitude, starting today
- Start the process of short-term and long-term goal setting
- Find your “Y” in life
- Make a plan
- Understand the importance of gratitude
- Realize the role vices play in your life
- Be confident and become a winner
You have the power to choose your path and this guide can show you the way. Accept nothing but the best for your life!
About the Author
As a teenager, Trevor Bolin was a drug-abusing high school dropout who weighed in at more than 300 pounds. He supplemented his meager income pumping gas by hauling possessions to the pawn shop, where he picked up just enough money for hot dogs and Kraft mac and cheese.
By 17, Bolin decided he’d had enough. He came up with a plan, and within two years, he’d quit drugs, lost more than 100 pounds, and was close to paying off $85,000 in debt.
By 28, he earned his first $1 million in one year.
And he did it simply by coming up with a plan and putting the plan in motion.
“My life has nothing to do with luck, good or bad,” Bolin, 32, writes in his new book, Take Charge and Change Your Life Today. “It revolves around working hard, giving back as much as (if not more than) I get, accepting that attitude is everything, and being grateful for what I have.”
He wishes he had learned those lessons long before he became an unhappy teenager with a seemingly hopeless future.
While many parents teach their children the basics of fiscal responsibility by giving them an allowance, Bolin says his experience offers less obvious but equally important lessons. Children need to have a healthy attitude toward money, not only to avoid making choices that make them unhappy, but to allow them a life path that they control.
“I learned my lessons the hard way,” he says. “You can start now to make sure your children never reach the bottom that I hit.”
These are some places to start:
• Avoid making negative comments about money: Sayings like “money is the root of all evil” and “a fool and his money are soon parted” are negative and therefore not helpful. Make a commitment, starting today, not to use those phrases. Imagine what a child believes about money if that’s what they hear all the time?
Money is a great thing — when you know what to do with it and when you control it rather than allowing it to control you.• Help children recognize the financial lessons they learn from experience: Say you warned your child he should set aside some of Grandma’s birthday money, but he spent it all on impulse. When he’s disappointed later because he can’t buy something he wants, remind him why he can’t. Tell him that feeling disappointed is a small price to pay for a valuable lesson. And won’t it be much easier if he learns the lesson after just one sad experience?
• Pay yourself first: If your child receives a weekly allowance, he or she should immediately put 10 to 15 percent into a savings account that won’t be touched. Or set a milestone for when money from the account can be used, such as the child’s 18th birthday. By then, she’ll be so accustomed to saving, she probably won’t tap the account even when she can.
• Help your child set goals: Setting financial goals, noting progress toward achieving them, and enjoying the satisfaction of crossing them off the list are fiscally sound lessons and a good way to nurture healthy attitudes in general. Your child might set goals for the month ($10 to go to the movies), goals for the year (save $200 for a Wii system) and goals for the future ($375 a year for the next eight years for a car when I’m 16.)
“Goals are the first step in achieving what you desire in this world,” Bolin says. “You can create success in any aspect of life – not just money – as long as you’re putting a plan in motion.”
My Thoughts
I like the idea of having a plan, setting goals and changing my attitude about life. That is what Trevor Bolin’s book is all about. Once you create a pathway to your future, nothing can stop you, but yourself. It takes hard work, dedication and belief in yourself to make anything possible – like losing that extra 20 pounds, or getting out of debt. For me, those are two of my goals on my list. Losing weight and losing debt.
This book is considered to be a self-help book, with several steps along the way to encourage you to reach your goals – whatever they may be. For the most part, the system of the book seems simple enough – but requires self-discipline and changing bad habits that you may have been relying on for a very long time. Once you follow through just one of the steps though, it will dramatically change your life for the better.
I would highly recommend this book to just about anyone. There has to be a better way to reach our goals, and with the help of this book you may just find that way.
To learn more about this book, you can visit Trevor Bolin’s website, like them on Facebook and/or follow on Twitter. This book is now available at your favorite local bookstore, or online at Amazon.com.
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