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    You Are Your Own Inspiration: How Facing Your Own Fears and Challenges Can Inspire You
    You Are Your Own Inspiration: How Facing Your Own Fears and Challenges Can Inspire You
    You Are Your Own Inspiration: How Facing Your Own Fears and Challenges Can Inspire You
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    You Are Your Own Inspiration: How Facing Your Own Fears and Challenges Can Inspire You

    By A. F. Chew

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    We all have a purpose in life. It is up to us on how we want to live it. We may even face situations that force us to make life-changing decisions that can shape our own future for the better. But sometimes, we may also have to overcome obstacles and hurdles for us to get there. And this is when we come face to face with our own demons, such as our fears.

    This book is about a woman who had lived through anxiety attacks, depression, a marriage that almost broke down, uncertainty in her career, and the news about her daughters diagnosis with autism, which at one point happened almost all at the same time. She also had to make a career-changing decision that surprisingly led her to another discovery that could change her life.

    Find out how she finally found inspiration, and how she discovered and understood how life really works, and that all the negative barriers in her life turned out to be a blessing in the end.

    Also included in this book are A.F. Chews selection of very inspiring thoughts and quotes and positive affirmations, most of which are written by world-renowned authors, philosophers, celebrities, and other icons in the world of philosophy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781477299463
    You Are Your Own Inspiration: How Facing Your Own Fears and Challenges Can Inspire You
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    A. F. Chew

    A.F. Chew is currently living in Brunei with her husband and children. After resigning from the finance and banking industry after a mere eight years, she is now an aspiring entrepreneur who has set her sights on becoming a success in life pursuing her passions. This is her first ever book.

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      You Are Your Own Inspiration - A. F. Chew

      © 2013 by A. F. Chew. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/03/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-9946-3 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Introduction

      We are who we are by choice

      Learning through challenges

      Developing your own passion, by listening to yourself

      How Fear influences you to Fail, OR Succeed

      Building hope through your children

      How to Begin your own way to Getting Inspired

      Empowering Thoughts & Quotes

      Positive Affirmations

      Afterword

      Wonderful Books for further reading and inspiration

      A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

      — Marianne Williamson

      This book is dedicated to my wonderful family who continue to inspire and encourage me to move forward in life.

      I love you all.

      Introduction

      Our life is ideally like a story that we write in a notebook. There is an introduction that then unfolds into a series of chapters, and finally has an ending. I believe that we write our own stories, no one writes it for us. We create our own destinies. We are the master of our own thoughts. We all have an ending to our lives, in pretty much the same way, and that is, death. But, more importantly, it is the journey that we take before we reach the end that matters the most. Did we have a happy life? Did we get to do the things we have always wanted to do? Did we finish the things we started? Did we have a fulfilling life? Have we served our purpose on this planet earth? Have we forgiven the mistakes of the people who hurt us previously?

      We should value our lives more than anything else. I strongly believe that not only we have a purpose in this world we live in, but we also have a purpose for eternity. We may temporarily exist on a physical plane in this world, but our souls shall live on forever. And, hence, it is so important for us to heal and better ourselves at all measures. So that we can achieve the things we want to achieve and live a meaningful life the way we imagine it.

      In this book, I want to share with you about my thoughts, feelings and experiences about finding and loving yourself, creating your own dreams and turning it into reality, the significance of forgiveness and moving on, and learning to focus on the things that matter most to you so that you can live a healthy, balanced and beautiful life filled with good fortune, prosperity, happiness, joy and abundance. There is no right time, other than now, to inspire yourself again. It is from reading a lot of books that inspires me the most to live my life doing the things that I love to do and becoming the person that I love. I stopped listening to other people, and instead I started following my own intuition and dreams. My focus on the present moment allowed me to enjoy my life and direct all my thoughts to my goals and aspirations.

      Sharing, through this book, is one of my goals. I have always believed that I am meant to do something meaningful. And that is to give and to share with everyone out there who may be going through or at least have gone through similar experiences as me, so that you know that you are not alone. My hope for this book is to also serve you with some form of guidance from my real life experiences.

      It is also my desire to reach out to the younger generations, so that they may feel inspired to build their own dreams and turn them into reality. I even want my children to read this book someday, and possibly their children too. This will be my gift to them. I want them to be exposed to the many philosophies being taught in this world that could help them in discovering themselves and what their life purpose is. I want to inspire my children to go for their dreams and do what they love to do, not for anyone else, but for themselves at least. This is so that they can acquire that inner peace and wisdom knowing that they are confident enough to make decisions in their own ways. I have included some points on how you can begin to inspire yourselves, the same way as how I inspired myself to move forward with my life so that I can enjoy my life better.

      I am a wife and mother with two children. I also had the opportunity to graduate from university with a double major in accounting and finance, after which I worked in various companies including a bank for only a period of eight years. Being an educated woman, I knew I had to establish myself somewhere in my career, which meant that I had to succeed and constantly do well in my job. I was kind of competitive in that sense, not with anyone, but only with myself. Therefore, it was hard for me to imagine myself without a job, only to decide eventually that I had to resign altogether and become a housewife. This decision did not come to me very lightly. In fact, there were so many reasons in the end why I had to do it. I weighed all the pros and cons before making my final decision. And I eventually discovered that the pros of resigning from my job weighed more.

      I faced a lot

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