Foreword by Dr John Demartini, bestselling author & featured in The Secret
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The foreword

The full foreword to Building a Life of Clarity, written by Dr John Demartini.

As I have travelled the world and have been fortunate enough to speak to millions of individuals from all walks of life, I would say for certain that most individuals I have met would love to live an Extraordinary Life and not just experience an ordinary life existing in survival mode. The truth is that if you are willing to do the very proven actions that it takes, as outlined in the book you are about to read, you too can transform your life into something inspiring and extraordinary.

From the age of twenty-five, Benjamin Trengrove, the author of this unique book, has been studying and gathering all the knowledge and wisdom that he could to help empower human beings and to assist them in living their lives to the fullest. If he was to ask you today to rate each area of your life (family, finance, work, relationships, spirituality, mentally, physically) on a satisfaction scale from 0 to 10, how much would it be for each area?

Have you ever imagined yourself living your life truly to the fullest, and do you currently think or believe you can reach a 10 in each area somehow, someday? What is “An Extraordinary Life” for you? And could you answer these questions quickly with the highest of ratings, while feeling certain?

“If you would learn today that you’ll die tomorrow, can you honestly say: ‘I did all that I could possibly do with everything I was given, and I have no regrets’?”

After a meticulous approach to learning and an obsession with clarity, by writing this book, Benjamin wanted every individual who reads it to have the necessary keys to living An Extraordinary Life. After studying the teachings of mainstream personal-development “gurus,” he was unsatisfied that the teachings could yield predictable, repeatable, and verifiable results in all areas of one’s life.

He has synthesised what he has learned and tested, on both himself and his peers, and put them into understandable, applicable principles and methods. He divided his book into four sections that you’ll discover through the following inspiring and life-transforming pages. This book has the power to completely change your life and help you transform anything ordinary in your daily existence into something extraordinary. Just by spending a few hours reading these life-changing principles and doing some practical exercises, you are able to give yourself a completely new life trajectory.

Hi, my name is Dr John Demartini. When I was born, I had an arm and leg deformity and a speech impediment. When I was seven, I discovered I had dyslexia, and my first-grade teacher told my parents that I would never be able to read, write or communicate properly and never amount to anything nor go very far in life. When I was an early teenager, I dropped out of school. I left my family’s home when I was thirteen and lived much of the time on the streets, in parks, with friends, or in cars. My parents drove me to the highway at the age of fourteen, where I started an adventurous journey hitchhiking from Houston, Texas, to California to pursue a life goal of surfing big waves. I panhandled money and food, and later at age fifteen, I finally made it to the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. After living under a bridge, a park bench, a bathroom, an abandoned car, and then a tent, I nearly died of strychnine poisoning in the fall of 1972. Luckily, a woman found me in the jungle in my tent. I was soon given a chance to meet a great master teacher named Paul C. Bragg, who awakened my mind and shared principles that transformed my subsisting life into what is now truly an Extraordinary Life.

Today, after overcoming my learning and speaking challenges, I have been blessed to write over 40 books and read over 30,000 of them. I was able to study so many disciplines, from sciences and religions to philosophies and arts. I even eventually graduated with honours as “Dr John Demartini.” I’ve been spending the past 30+ years travelling 300 days a year to 150 countries researching, writing, and teaching millions of individuals how to transform and live extraordinary lives. Today I’m even considered by some to be one of the more knowledgeable individuals in the field of human behaviour. I write this to make it clear that no matter where you are in your life, you can transform your current position into something even more amazing and extraordinary.

In this book you are about to read, Ben will introduce you to some of his own synthesised knowledge and discoveries while sharing with you some teachings from my own original body of work.

You will learn things I’m confident you could have gone a lifetime without ever learning or discovering. I believe these teachings, if applied, can and will transform your perceptions, decisions, and actions in life. I’m confident that if you read and apply what you are about to read, you too can do what I was able to do. So, right now, begin, like I began in 1972, and start living an extraordinary life like I am able to do today.

- Dr John Demartini
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