12 Secrets that Can Change Your Life

Gentle Wisdom for Joyous Living

Author Chris Prentiss shares ancient yet practical wisdom from ‘The Little Book of Secrets.'

By Chris Prentiss

I humbly offer you these ancient secrets with my wish for your deep-down, soul-drenching happiness, abundant prosperity, and unconditional love.

Following the path of these secrets has brought me and others all the good things we most dearly cherish: true friendship, prosperity, peace, happiness, wonderful relationships with people we love, rewarding professions, and relationships with our children that are loving, truthful, and totally satisfying. Now I have the great good fortune to share them with you.

These secrets will liberate you, protect you, and bring you good fortune.

Chris Prentiss is cofounder and codirector of Passages Addiction Cure Center in Malibu, California. He is author of many books, including The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living (Power Press, 2008), from which this is excerpted. For more information, visit www.PowerPressPublishing.com.

Inner Mastery of a Problem Will Bring a Natural Solution

Once You Have Gained Inner Mastery of a Problem, It Will Come About Naturally That the Action You Take Will Succeed.

Gaining mastery of a problem begins with recognizing that the problem is only in your life because it holds a gift for you. It presents you with an opportunity for improving yourself or your situation. Keep in mind that the solution will put you in better circumstances than before the problem arose or it will prevent you from making an error. Thinking your way through the problem like this will result in the success of any action you take. Anyone who masters that secret will rise high and reach every state that mortals can desire.

Establish Endurance and You Will Succeed at All Things

To Enjoy a Meaningful Way of Life and to Produce Long-lasting Effects, the Ability to Endure Must Be Firmly Established within You.

To endure means to continue to the end--to continue in the face of obstacles, pain, fatigue, frustration, opposition, or hardship. Duration is a state that is not worn down by anything. When you have established the quality of endurance within yourself, you can reach any goal, overcome any obstacle, and bear any condition. Once established, that inner law of your being then determines all of your actions and leads to extraordinary well-being and abundant success. Gaining mastery of that one secret allows you to completely depend upon yourself to persevere until your goals are reached.

Do Not Spend More than You Have

In Financial Matters, Well-being Prevails When Expenditures and Income Are in Proportion.

Out of debt, out of danger. You must not spend more than you have. Credit enslaves. Since all periods of prosperity are followed by periods of decline, the knowledgeable, successful person prepares for the times of decline during the times of prosperity. If you always spend all that you have, you will be unprepared in times of emergency. Such poor planning leads to the destruction of well-being and invites disaster. Whoever masters this one secret will live a life of such great abundance that from the excess he will be able to experience the joy of giving.

Your Determination Will Take You the Distance

You Can Succeed in Life, No Matter Your Circumstances, Provided You Have Determination and Endurance and Follow the Path of the Knowledgeable, Successful Person.

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires. The opportunities to achieve success are endless, and even those who start with nothing can succeed. But even the finest opportunity in the wrong hands comes to nothing. All that is necessary for you to achieve success, great success, is to cultivate endurance as an established trait of character, have determination to reach your goals, and follow the path of the knowledgeable, successful person. By accomplishing that, you will speed to your success as an eagle in flight.