Best seller, Game changer

People often ask me advice about how I live my life, or choices I would make if I was in their shoes. Whether it’s advice about relationships, work, conflict, or something else, I always have one resource I try to refer to before giving them my two cents. I know that I have some influential life experiences that enable me to have insight into some tough situations, but I am not a wise person. I am not putting myself down here, I’m just being honest. We all make a million mistakes all the time so who really knows the right path to take when there is a fork in the road? Let alone when your talking about someone elses choices? So when I am asked how to handle a situation I always refer to my reason for making my own choices; a fantastic best selling book that truly changed my life a few years ago. 

There are so many self-help books, guides to happiness, or guides to a more liberating and fulfilling life. They give you step by step instructions but yet many people keep having to buy more of these books because they are not quite doing the trick. They are not the game changers like you had hoped they would be. Well a few years ago I found the best book to help me with my own desire of wanting to be a better person and to have a more fulfilling life. When I was struggling with questions about my path in life and my character, this book gave me the answers I needed. It is quite long, but it is chalk full of great advice and a basic layout of how to be successful and happy in your life. Every time I read it, I learn something new. Here is some of the advice it gives on certain topics:

Building your Character:

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For whatever you sow, that you will also reap.

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of a man reflects the man.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends

Conflict:

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

You have heard, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Friends:

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his friend.

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as some habitually do, but encouraging one another.

Love:

“Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. 

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Not worrying about the future:

Can you by worrying add a single hour to your life? ...... Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 


You have probably guessed it by now. The amazing best seller book that changed my life was the Bible. People don’t realize that the answers they are looking for when it comes to their day to day struggles, questions, or conflicts are actually in one of the best selling books of all time; the Bible. What stops you from taking a look for yourself? The advice is the same as many people tell you daily. "Money is the root of all evil." We all have heard that. Or how many times have you heard someone say, "One day he's going to get what he deserves, it will all come around full circle"....in other words, "That's karma!" Well how is that different than 'you reap what you sow?' And of course the golden rule COMES from the Bible! (treat others the way you want to be treated)

Don't let anything stop you from letting the wisdom of one of the world's best selling books guide you through your life. Go grab a copy today and check it out for yourself.