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Taking Charge: How to assert positive control over your own emotions
Everyone wants to take charge of their own destiny. And we can do this, easily, if we have the secret. Though this secret involves just one word, implementing this approach, without extra help, proves too difficult for most people. Why? Because we have been trained by circumstances and our culture to view the world as a problem instead of an opportunity. That’s why the book is far more than one word.
The body of this small volume contains all of the ways we complicate the simplicity of being happy. With each chapter, we learn not only what trips us up, but also what we can do, step-by-step, to strengthen our foundation of happiness. Most chapters contain one or more exercises for expanding our awareness and power.
The book starts with a simple set of 5 steps to taking charge. When done with the book, we will no longer 5 steps and can achieve happiness with only one step. After a brief introduction to the brain, mind, ego and true self, the book takes on one barrier to happiness after another—negative attitude, laziness, self-imposed blindness, reasonableness, shyness, a weak-willed attitude, resentment, annoyance, blame, and irresponsibility. With each chapter, we are empowered to take charge of these barriers and to blast right through them.
Beyond these barriers, we look at “walking the walk” of taking charge. We look at several concepts about which society-at-large has grown increasingly confused. The chapters of part 3 clear up those confusions, tackling,
In the final chapter, we look at “ultimate happiness” and giving up all self-concern.
Mastering happiness becomes easy, once we unlearn all of the crazy things our culture has taught us. Taking charge of your own destiny can be yours, and it can be both profound and lasting.
54 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 13, 2018
About the author
Rod Martin Jr.
37 books8 followersRod Martin has been a bestselling author (Climate Basics), a college professor, a software engineer with a summa cum laude degree, and a Hollywood artist with screen credit.
Martin downplays the fact that his own IQ resides in the top 1%, citing imagination and humility as far more important qualities in effective intelligence.
He has written more than 20 books in his own pen names (Carl Martin for fiction) on a broad range of topics, including science, philosophy, spirituality, self-help, history, politics and the basis of ancient myths. Additionally, he has ghostwritten more than 60 books for his clients on topics including artificial intelligence, interplanetary space missions, geological periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous and others), numerous self-help books (time management, self-confidence building, Law of Attraction, solving procrastination, converting bad habits into good ones), several books on religion and spirituality (Kundalini Yoga, Buddhism, angels), and nearly a dozen books on ancient myth and legend (Roman, Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic).
Having worked for Bank of America, Control Data, Ceridian Payroll Services, Global Database Marketing, and IPRO Tech, Martin has contributed to the business world with educational materials, training seminars, marketing collateral and even one business book on the fashion industry. He has also created business software as well as his own 3D astronomy package, “Stars in the NeighborHood.”
His unique ability to see patterns in nature and society has allowed him to discover many breakthrough ideas, including the fact that nature “invented” tank circuits billions of years before humans did -- a fact he realized while studying electronic engineering in the 1970s. Tank circuits allow for the broadcast and receiving of radio signals; atoms have done this since the beginning of physical matter, because they are naturally both coils and capacitors.
Martin has also discovered 3 items in science, each from a different scientific discipline, which suggest that an Atlantis-like event occurred 9620 BC -- right when Plato’s lost island empire supposedly succumbed to the sea. Upon further study in several branches of science, Martin discovered a broad array of evidence supporting Plato’s story. Details may be found in his book, Mission: Atlantis.
In the realm of spirituality and religion, Martin discovered several items of wisdom hidden in the Bible, revealing God’s purpose for Noah’s Flood, the target of the Flood, and a biblical timeline compatible with those of science. Details may be found in his book, The Bible’s Hidden Wisdom: God’s Reason for Noah’s Flood.
Also in spirituality, Martin has discovered four traits of God that allow for miracles to happen. This is the basis for how prayer works and why it seems to some that prayers frequently don’t work, when they actually do. Details may be found in his books, The Art of Forgiveness, The Science of Miracles, and Proof of God.
In the realm of climate science, Martin readily admits that he had bought into the lies of Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC. Caring about our world is always a good thing, but getting the facts wrong about our world is not recommended. When he discovered that Al Gore and he had been horribly wrong, Martin revisited the basics of climate science and wrote his #1 weather bestseller, Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear, still only 99 cents as an ebook.
Some Upcoming Titles:
* Four Elements of God
* Four Elements of Modern Science
* Pangaea Sister Sites (in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Scotese and the Paleomap Project)
* Science Basics
* Leftist Capitalism
* The Nature of Evil
* History Basics
* Extreme Weather: What Causes Wind to Blow? (book 3 of the Climate Basics series)
* Dumb Genius: How intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy
* Modern Pharisees: Why Biblical Literalists Are on the Wrong Side of Christianity
* True Blue Democrats, R
Martin downplays the fact that his own IQ resides in the top 1%, citing imagination and humility as far more important qualities in effective intelligence.
He has written more than 20 books in his own pen names (Carl Martin for fiction) on a broad range of topics, including science, philosophy, spirituality, self-help, history, politics and the basis of ancient myths. Additionally, he has ghostwritten more than 60 books for his clients on topics including artificial intelligence, interplanetary space missions, geological periods (Jurassic, Cretaceous and others), numerous self-help books (time management, self-confidence building, Law of Attraction, solving procrastination, converting bad habits into good ones), several books on religion and spirituality (Kundalini Yoga, Buddhism, angels), and nearly a dozen books on ancient myth and legend (Roman, Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic).
Having worked for Bank of America, Control Data, Ceridian Payroll Services, Global Database Marketing, and IPRO Tech, Martin has contributed to the business world with educational materials, training seminars, marketing collateral and even one business book on the fashion industry. He has also created business software as well as his own 3D astronomy package, “Stars in the NeighborHood.”
His unique ability to see patterns in nature and society has allowed him to discover many breakthrough ideas, including the fact that nature “invented” tank circuits billions of years before humans did -- a fact he realized while studying electronic engineering in the 1970s. Tank circuits allow for the broadcast and receiving of radio signals; atoms have done this since the beginning of physical matter, because they are naturally both coils and capacitors.
Martin has also discovered 3 items in science, each from a different scientific discipline, which suggest that an Atlantis-like event occurred 9620 BC -- right when Plato’s lost island empire supposedly succumbed to the sea. Upon further study in several branches of science, Martin discovered a broad array of evidence supporting Plato’s story. Details may be found in his book, Mission: Atlantis.
In the realm of spirituality and religion, Martin discovered several items of wisdom hidden in the Bible, revealing God’s purpose for Noah’s Flood, the target of the Flood, and a biblical timeline compatible with those of science. Details may be found in his book, The Bible’s Hidden Wisdom: God’s Reason for Noah’s Flood.
Also in spirituality, Martin has discovered four traits of God that allow for miracles to happen. This is the basis for how prayer works and why it seems to some that prayers frequently don’t work, when they actually do. Details may be found in his books, The Art of Forgiveness, The Science of Miracles, and Proof of God.
In the realm of climate science, Martin readily admits that he had bought into the lies of Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC. Caring about our world is always a good thing, but getting the facts wrong about our world is not recommended. When he discovered that Al Gore and he had been horribly wrong, Martin revisited the basics of climate science and wrote his #1 weather bestseller, Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear, still only 99 cents as an ebook.
Some Upcoming Titles:
* Four Elements of God
* Four Elements of Modern Science
* Pangaea Sister Sites (in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Scotese and the Paleomap Project)
* Science Basics
* Leftist Capitalism
* The Nature of Evil
* History Basics
* Extreme Weather: What Causes Wind to Blow? (book 3 of the Climate Basics series)
* Dumb Genius: How intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy
* Modern Pharisees: Why Biblical Literalists Are on the Wrong Side of Christianity
* True Blue Democrats, R
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