Ordinary to Extraordinary
Stories of Exotic Places and Remarkable People & How Belonging and Purpose Can Transform Your Life
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Your reading adventure starts with ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY!!!
Do you love stories of adventure, travel, chance meetings with amazing people, and intriguing episodes of danger, love, and unexpected results?
Do you like seeing the underdog win and the average person achieve extraordinary success?
In Ordinary to Extraordinary, you'll find this and much more. This book is composed of captivating but true first-person narratives, and it is also an exploration into the meaning of life. Each story is grouped into one of four "pillars of meaning" - belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling - with reflection chapters allowing you to construct the pillars in your own life.
In Ordinary to Extraordinary you will find:
- 22 riveting narratives about a well lived life of unique experiences and world travel
- Intriguing encounters with angry Nigerian military guards, remote Indian tribes in the Amazon, elegant Parisians in Europe, and more
- The story of an average kid finding his way and discovering meaning for himself
- Reflective questions to help you discover meaning in your life
- Simple challenges to help you take action creating the life you want to live
Ordinary to Extraordinary is entertaining and it also shows readers that anything is possible; it reveals how easy it is for any of us to unlock all our potential and live a successful and fulfilled life.
Ordinary to Extraordinary crosses multiple genres including autobiography, memoir, narrative, travel, adventure, self help, personal development. It is a book the returns to the art of storytelling while bringing readers along an adventure that crosses six continents, over eighty countries, and forty-nine of the fifty states in the United States. It is about meeting amazing people and discovering exotic places.
In this book, Erik Seversen is faces with the full range of human emotions as he pursues his dreams. In Erik Seversen's travels around the world, he is confronted with danger having a machine gun stuck in his mouth in Nigeria, love as his becomes infatuated with a woman living in Paris, Throught all of the encounters, Ordinary to Extraordinary highlights how different people, places and circomstances all lead toward some type of life lesson that can be carried along as the pursuit of a meanigful life is followed.
Erik Seversen
Erik Seversen is on a mission to inspire people. He holds a master's degree in anthropology and is a certified practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming. Erik draws from his years of teaching at the university level and years of real-life experience in business to motivate people to take action, creating extreme success in business and in life. Erik is a TEDx and keynote speaker who has reached over one million people through his public speaking and live courses. He has visited over one hundred countries and all fifty states in the USA and has climbed the highest mountains on four continents, fifteen countries, and eighteen states. Erik has published twenty-four bestselling books on the topics of mindset, success, and peak performance, and he has helped over 500 people become authors. He is a full-time writer, book consultant, and speaker, and he lives by the idea that success is available to everyone-that living an extraordinary life is a choice. Erik lives in Los Angeles with his wife and has two boys currently studying at university.
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