Building Your Best Life
A Young Person’s Guide to Creating the Life You’d Love to Live
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You are not adrift in the Sea of Life. In the best way, your life is up to you.
That may sound like news of freedom to you, or feel like a daunting responsibility. Either way, in our lives there are important and exciting ways to create a life that that is meaningful to us, that we will love to live, one where we are active and feel happy and fulfilled, no matter where we are starting from today.
And you are the right person to do it for yourself. This book holds ideas and methods that I learned on the adventure of my life, what no one ever told me about talents, interests, choice and intention, including truths I definitely learned the hard way. No one ever told me, no one was even talking about it for me to overhear, I never knew these ideas and techniques existed or were real; yet somehow I had a gut feeling that there was more to life than people were talking about in my schools, jobs and family. I’m not talking about something that was simply in some other city, I’m talking about things here, now and today in your life that you can use to create a happy and fulfilling life.
Look around you. There are people who live their whole lives in jobs or relationships they don’t enjoy, simply reacting to what happens around them, over-eating or drinking out of boredom or to assuage pain, and not making their own choices. They live like anchorless ships adrift at sea, reacting to the winds, storms, and doldrums of life.
Do you feel some longing or discontent with your life today, or with where it looks like you’re headed?
If you start paying attention to what really matters to you, if you notice what comes your way and consider if it fits into what you want for yourself, if you choose things that make you happy, you can create yourself a great life. Maybe you already know what you want to do for paid work, fun, interests, and to fix problems you notice. And maybe you don’t. Either way, what you will discover in these chapters are ideas and techniques for building a life where you wake up happy, healthy, and fulfilled.
And the best part is that you can start from exactly the point in your life that you are at today. No matter what that seems like to you right now.
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About the Book
You might be surprised to know how many adults pick up their heads one day and ask themselves, “how did I end up here?” Merie Weismiller Wallace, a still photographer who has worked on some of Hollywood’s most interesting films, reveals things she learned and ideas she discovered that allowed her to create a uniquely wonderful life. It all started when Merie was failing in junior high, then imagined exactly what she would prefer—and through an odd combination of events and persistence, she found her dreams and aspirations coming true. At the time, no one told her that she had used a technique of visualization that successful people use purposefully. Even though she never knew that most of the ideas and techniques in this book existed, she began to have a gut feeling that there was more to life than people were telling her about. Building Your Best Life will help you discover your authentic self and break through uncertainty. It offers new options and ways of thinking so that you too can build yourself a personally fulfilling and meaningful life.
About the Author
Merie Weismiller Wallace is widely known for her still photographic work in motion picture film production. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from USC Film School, and has worked around the world with noted filmmakers and on remarkable feature films. She is a longstanding member of the Society for Motion Picture Still Photographers, in which she has served as president and co-president.