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    Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life
    Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life
    Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life
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    Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life

    By Dean Erickson

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    Author Dean Erickson demonstrates the importance of choosing your best personal story, the version you use to describe your life to yourself and others. If that story is derived from the worst events of your past, instead of the best, you can negatively affect your present and future. Through an in-depth and emotionally evocative exercise, valuable suggestions, motivational quotes, and one very powerful question, Erickson leads you with humor, encouragement, and insight to find your best story and helps you get rid of negative beliefs that keep you from living your best life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDean Erickson
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781458010551
    Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life
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    Dean Erickson

    Dean Erickson is the founder and CEO of Bionic Capital LLC, a registered investment advisory firm. He worked on Wall Street as an options trader and risk arbitrageur after graduating from Brown University in 1982. He gained the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1987.After Wall Street, he stumbled upon acting and enjoyed the creative process. He guest-starred on Frasier, starred as Gabriel Knight in the awarding-winning video game The Beast Within, and acted in several Shakespearean productions. He began writing and created multiple movie scripts before writing a mystery thriller, No One Laughs at a Dead Clown, under the name, DC Erickson.When a computer glitch caused the loss of his outline for novel number two, he turned to the personal development genre. Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life was published months later. His most recent book Act. Adapt. Achieve. introduces his innovative Idea CircleTM which explains the process of achieving success. The book offers other tools and techniques to help readers achieve success more quickly and consistently in any endeavor.Dean has worked full-time in the investment advisory business since 2006, and at Bionic Capital since its founding in 2009. He is happy to say he has created his perfect job, and he loves his boss.Prophetically, he was voted Most Versatile by his high school senior class a long, long time ago. More recently, he was elected to the Midcoast Maine Sports Hall of Fame and the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame.He lives in California with his wonderful wife, Lisa.

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      Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life - Dean Erickson

      Choose Your Story

      Choose Your Life

      by

      Dean Erickson

      Copyright 2010 Dean Erickson

      No part of this book may be reproduced without the author’s permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, email info@bionicpublishing.com.

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Bionic Publishing - www.BionicPublishing.com

      Live Better Books – www.LiveBetterBooks.com

      First Edition, 2010

      Table of Contents

      Dedication and Thanks

      Author’s Note and Disclaimer

      Introduction

      Chapter 1:

      What’s Your Story?

      Chapter 2:

      The Good, the Bland, and the Ugly

      Chapter 3:

      Bring Your A Game

      Chapter 4:

      What Don’t I Have to Do?

      Chapter 5:

      Live Your Best Life

      Appendices

      Appendix A

      Appendix B

      Appendix C

      About the Author

      Dedication and Thanks

      Dedicated to:

      Dr. Michael Garrett, Dr. Leigh Tobias, Ph.D., Mr. Harvard Knowles, and Mr. Art Dyer, mentors.

      Thank you to everyone who has touched my life, especially to those who touched it kindly.

      Author’s Note and Disclaimer

      All opinions expressed in this book are the opinions of the author only. It is not meant to be a medical or psychology primer or text. In fact, the author doesn’t much care what the experts have to say—unless they are saying something valuable. Perform the exercises contained herein at your own risk. The author is not a therapist, trained or otherwise, although he acknowledges he has spent more than his fair share of time with several of them. He is not affiliated with a religion or methodology, any particular group, or much of anything other than his wife and family. He’s a man of some life experience and awareness that he wants to share with anyone who might care.

      That disclaimed, if this book serves you, please use it. If it doesn’t, please read it again. If it still doesn't serve you, maybe you should have written it.

      Good luck. (It never hurts to be lucky.)

      Introduction

      As a physician and wellness practitioner, I meet many people who suffer physical illnesses resulting from living lives that are not fulfilling. They need to make changes, but lack a plan for making lasting change in their lives.

      What struck me as refreshing about Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life is its rare honesty, so let me be equally honest: if you want to be coddled and told you can get what you want without doing the work that causes that result, this isn’t the book for you.

      There are many self-help books on the market today that claim to be a remedy for what ails us; lots of discussions about the pressures of the modern world, and all the tricks we must learn in order to better cope with it. And then there is Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life—a book that tells you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear. No more wishing, no more excuses.

      This deceptively brief life guide (my phrase, not the author’s) goes beyond the simple recognition phase of improving one’s life and takes you to the most important step—the one that makes the difference. It shows you how to rethink, rebuild and live the story of the life

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