It’s 1971, and Jack Higgins has just graduated from college. For him, it means the beginning of his adult life, but it also means he’s eligible for the Vietnam draft. Jack is certain he will die if sent overseas but feels he has little control over the course of his life. His parents want him to interview for career-oriented jobs, just like his father, but this is not the life Jack seeks. In order to find his way—his own way—he must get away from his family and land on his own two feet. Jack leaves the United States and goes to live in Berlin with a college friend. He yearns to find out who he is and what path his life should take. Experience becomes Jack’s teacher when he buys a BMW motorcycle and drives from Berlin to the south shore of Crete. To become his own man, he resolves his personal demons and faces challenges, all with the help of the open road.
In a world where passivity can feel like the norm, "Driving Towards Destiny" empowers readers to break free from the back seat and take control of the wheel. With inspiring anecdotes, practical advice, and empowering exercises, this book guides readers on a journey of self-discovery, assertiveness, and leadership. Get ready to embrace your agency, set boundaries, find your voice, and step into the spotlight of your own life.
Feel dissatisfied with your current path in life? Does your destiny seem like some mundane existence governed by circumstances beyond your control? Want to be the master of your own life but not sure where to start?As you will see in this book: Circumstances, people, and external conditions do not decide the course of your life -you do.Remember what Walt Disney once said: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."Drive Your Destiny gives you that courage to master the course of your life.Download Drive Your Destiny: Create a Vision for Your Life, Build Better Habits for Health and Wealth, and Unlock Your Inner GreatnessIn Drive Your Destiny, you will learn the strategies and tactics to:Master the key decisions in your life that make a differenceChange your limiting beliefs with the 6-point systemEmpower your life with vision-building strategiesBuild the right habits to reach your objectivesCreate a portfolio of winning goalsMaximize your mental and physical energy.You don't have to settle for what you can get.For a time, I believed forces beyond my control determined my destiny. I thought my future had already been decided. I had the wrong beliefs about living my life. I discovered I could switch the reality of what I was experiencing by changing my thoughts, behavior, habits, and ultimately my actions.Reinforce Positive habits and Put an End to Negative Results.Habits don't just happen. They are developed throughout your lifetime by consistent repetition. If you just let your habits "happen to you" rather than choosing the habits you need, you will become a slave to your circumstances.Anything is possible when you follow the beliefs of those who've already achieved what you desire. You can emulate the success of your mentors if you study the system of beliefs they used as a pathway toward personal excellence.Stop wasting your time and your life. Get up off the mat and fight back against the circumstances life has thrown at you.Believe in Your Dream and Life MissionWhen you believe in your life purpose, it provides you with the focus and confidence to make clearer decisions as to the direction you need to take to fulfill your mission. Believing in a powerful destiny means believing in something bigger than yourself.Define Your Goals: The Pillars of DestinyA focused goal can transform a simple idea into a multi-million dollar business. It can take a mundane existence and give it purpose, or materialize a dream into reality in just a matter of months. When you create a portfolio of clearly defined goals, this becomes your concrete plan of action for the future.Create the vision of the real "you" that is buried under years of conforming to bad standards and fake personasWhy wait to start living your life? It is time to take action and make a decision. Learn to do what you love and Drive Your Destiny home today.
A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Sunday Times) "Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to independence, making the case that freedom of motion is essential to who we are as a species. ... We hope you'll read it." —Road & Track Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy “self-driving” future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think. Ten years ago, in the New York Times-bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, philosopher-mechanic Matthew B. Crawford—a University of Chicago PhD who owned his own motorcycle shop—made a revolutionary case for manual labor, one that ran headlong against the pretentions of white-collar office work. Now, using driving as a window through which to view the broader changes wrought by technology on all aspects of contemporary life, Crawford investigates the driver’s seat as one of the few remaining domains of skill, exploration, play—and freedom. Blending philosophy and hands-on storytelling, Crawford grounds the narrative in his own experience in the garage and behind the wheel, recounting his decade-long restoration of a vintage Volkswagen as well as his journeys to thriving automotive subcultures across the country. Crawford leads us on an irreverent but deeply considered inquiry into the power of faceless bureaucracies, the importance of questioning mindless rules, and the battle for democratic self-determination against the surveillance capitalists. A meditation on the competence of ordinary people, Why We Drive explores the genius of our everyday practices on the road, the rewards of “folk engineering,” and the existential value of occasionally being scared shitless. Witty and ingenious throughout, Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the irrepressible human spirit.
From break-ups and family fall-outs to career stalls and unexpected losses, life is filled with events and circumstances that can knock you off your feet and leave you feeling stressed, confused and lost. Whether you're embarking on a career at age 22 or are seeing your children off to college at age 52, If You Are in the Driver's Seat, Why Are You Lost? gives you the strategies to help you map out your life direction, leading you to the life you want. Filled with insights, information, and solutions, this book is a practical guide that teaches how to take control and regain personal identity by learning how to manage emotions, stress, health, and other factors keeping you from happiness. Dr. Lawana Gladney acts as your personal coach and provides inspiration with ideas, easy strategies, and sound advice to help you cope with stress and navigate through everyday challenges. Arming you with helpful techniques for letting go of the emotionally destructive people, thoughts, words, and regrets of the past in a manageable way, If You Are in the Driver's Seat, Why Are You Lost? is a roadmap to creating an amazing life.
The U.S. experiences a major crisis about every eighty years, and the last big crisis started more than eighty years ago. If history is any indicator, argues author Tom Osenton, we are in the very early stages of the next major crisis—one that could make the Great Depression seem like a day at the beach. The storm clouds are on the horizon: A slowing U.S. economy, major banks failing, a weakening dollar, the subprime mortgage debacle, a widening gap between the wealthy and working class, credit delinquencies and bankruptcies on the rise, infrastructure crumbling, healthcare in crisis—the list goes on and on. Baby Boomers, says Osenton, are standing precisely where FDR stood at the beginning of the Great Depression, and they are in a unique position to help pull society out of the morass and set the country on a course of growth and contentment for generations to come. It's no wonder that most young people do not feel they will be better off than their parents. Besides a looming economic crisis, we face a number of other crises: budget deficit, environmental, real estate, infrastructure, education, immigration, and healthcare. Now throw in some unforeseen wild cards such as terrorism, war, disease, poverty, homelessness, and natural disasters, and you have a recipe for a cataclysmic, multi-generational failure that will take decades and trillions of dollars to fix. Boomers are about to move into the role as the elders of an America desperate for leadership. It will be Boomers who take responsibility for directing us through the minefield of crises that will profoundly shape the U.S. for decades to come. It will be the Boomers' responsibility—and their destiny and legacy—to lead the U.S. through a thicket of issues that have been back-burnered by at least the last five presidential administrations. Full of solutions to seemingly intractable problems, Boomer Destiny shows how they can do it.
After decades of climate crises and pollution on earth, humanity discovers a planet that could hold the potential for a new home for humanity. A young and ambitious science journalist named Maria Southwind is selected to cover the mission and given exclusive access. Upon arrival to the ice-covered planet, Cadineag, the brilliant, but exiled scientist (Steven Cobi) discovers an abundance of life already present. As the away teams begin to explore the planet, problems and issues mount because of the unexpected lifeforms. Shortly after touching down, away team members begin to die from a mysterious disease that appears to unzip the very fabricate of their DNA. As more and more members of the fated mission pass away, Maria, by order of her superiors, covers up the deaths and problems in her worldwide reporting. Eventually, all images, messages, and data from the mission stop arriving on Earth and everyone is assumed lost. As the lies and covers ups of the failed mission become public knowledge, Maria becomes the scapegoat for her superiors and is disgraced. Years later, a mysterious probe from that very mission is discovered in the Arctic and Maria is called back into duty to help figure out what happened to that team. From memory modules and files, Maria discovers that the Cobi figured out that all of the life on Cadineag is part of a giant DNA seeding experiment by an alien collective known as the Gailonians. The Gailonians, afraid to share the universe with the products of their experiments, are now systematically using a virus to wipe out all of the advance lifeforms across the universe. The very last transmission from Cobi indicated that Earth was next, and it was up to Maria to stop the Gailonians and save life on earth.
Too often we see reality in black and white, overlooking nuances that require the discernment of tensions between the brokenness of our world and our desires for reconciliation. Yet the gap between wounding words and actions and the hope for acts of reconciliation can lead to even more violence and despair. The authors of this volume explore these tensions and the valences of ‘brokenness’ and ‘reconciliation’ in Paul Tillich’s thought. Together, they contribute to a richer understanding of the thought of the German American theologian and philosopher, his commitments, and the constructive interpretations his work can induce for us today. Think of the ruptures and efforts of dialogue among divided Christian churches, or the commitment of the social worker; reflect on how love as agape, or the courage to be, can be at the heart of this constructive work; or consider the reconciliation processes of peoples torn apart by violence, to mention a few contributions from this volume. Collectively, these contributions raise the hope of a Tillichian creative justice, a hope that can stimulate a broad audience to go beyond the superficiality and instantaneity of social media to something deeper, more enduring, and transformative.
The greatest rivalry in modern Thoroughbred racing history began with little fanfare on June 15, 1977. The more experienced Affirmed defeated Alydar, who was making his racing debut in the Youthful Stakes at Belmont Park. In nine subsequent meetings, Affirmed got the better of Alydar six times, often by just inches. Their meetings, especially during the Triple Crown season of 1978, became the stuff of racing lore. Affirmed claimed the Triple Crown, but Alydar tested him to the limits each time in stirring stretch drives that left onlookers limp. Indeed, many racing historians consider their Belmont Stakes to be the greatest race of the twentieth century. Author Timothy Capps, who witnessed many of the Affirmed–Alydar races, chronicles their early years, first encounters, and epic clashes. He also tells the stories of the people who raised, trained, and rode these titans.
Do you long to discover your unique purposes and abilities you never knew you had? Do you want to build confidence to face any obstacle that comes your way? Have you wondered how you can invite unimaginable blessings into your life? In his groundbreaking book, MARCHING TOWARD YOUR PURPOSE, and followed up with RUNNING TOWARD YOUR PURPOSE Dr. Darryl L. Jones reveals a simple yet profound truth that can help you attain your purpose and dreams: How you move toward your purpose can determine your destiny. When you "March and Run Toward Your Purpose, you will find yourself ready to Drive Toward Your Purpose which will allow you the opportunity to control your success or failure. Again, Dr. Darryl L. Jones offers a practical tool that will help you harness YOUR PURPOSE and become who God made you to be--an amazing, original masterpiece chosen by God to do great things. Prepared for both individual and group use, this book provide a list of words to stimulate your thoughts into purpose. No matter what challenges or troubles you're facing today, you can choose to rise up and invite God's purpose into your life by DRIVING TOWARD YOUR PURPOSE!
