I also read and study every day, and I’ve noticed something that is missing from most personal success books and courses. Their strategies for success may be sound, but they seldom address the student’s lack of belief. However, that’s not the case here. In The Rise of the Chosen Ones: How to Choose Yourself for Greatness, Joseph Parker reveals a powerful process to create strong self-belief.
Parker begins by describing the myth of the rare chosen one in society. This myth is a compelling story for movies, but it is lousy—and untrue—model for human achievement. It leads people to think that others are more capable and have advantages they do not. It also keeps people stuck in inaction as they wait for someone else to choose them for greatness. Parker explains that everyone must bet on and choose themselves in order to be the star in the movie of their lives.
In part two of the book, Parker reveals a complete set of tools and new psychological models for the personal development process. He makes the transformational process easy to understand and relate to by introducing the concept of levels of attainment. Here’s an overview of the attainment levels:
The Initiate: to become aware of your thinking and beliefs, acknowledge your past—and understand how it affected you, and then commit to becoming much more.
The Novice: to choose yourself and accept your greatness. You accept yourself fully with all your flaws and forgive any past mistakes or failures.
The Apprentice: to set your future dreams and adopt a life purpose based on your values. You get to recreate yourself as you always wanted to be.
The Journeyman: to put your dreams into action, you must believe they are possible, and overcome any fears that arise. You learn to seek excellence instead of perfection and have fun along the way.
The Master: to achieve your dreams with gratitude, humility, and to teach others the way. The master is action oriented, free of distractions, and has developed a clear understanding of thoughts and ideas.
Joseph C. Parker has built an impressive resume of helping people improve the quality of their lives. You’ll understand why as you dive into the pages of The Rise of the Chosen Ones: How to Choose Yourself For Greatness and discover a much-needed roadmap for achieving your dreams and becoming the master of your life.
Bob Proctor
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Too many people have no belief in their abilities.
There is a powerful myth that has been handed down throughout the ages. It is the myth of the “chosen one.” These rare individuals, supposedly selected for greatness from a higher source, have a destiny to accomplish amazing goals, and they possess knowledge, wisdom, and skills others do not. We see reflections of this myth in classic movies and books such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.
Great warriors, kings, actors, and athletes are often thought of as Chosen Ones. Indeed, these archetypes do sometimes accomplish amazing deeds, and possess knowledge, power, and skill, but were they really chosen? How did they get to be chosen? Who chose them? How do we access this exclusive club? We will answer these questions and more.
We will discuss and dispel the myth of the chosen one because it is a false belief. Then we will leverage the seductive power of the chosen one myth, for our benefit. By doing this, we will discover that many chosen ones really do exist. However, they are self-made, not appointed by others as the myth describes. We will discover that the deeply personal act of choosing themselves is the psychological key that makes some people great. As we shall see, everyone has the opportunity to become one of the self-chosen ones, and you are able to become one too.
This book shares two powerful, psychological models that contain the core components self-chosen ones will employ for success. You will learn about the seven-part dynamics model, and how it relates to the key concepts matrix. Instructions are provided to assist you in utilizing these models to raise your self-concept, overcome fear walls, and enhance personal beliefs.
The path needed for the journey of the self-chosen ones will be made clear, and the progression levels from Initiate to Master revealed. This framework will guide anyone with the will to be great through the maze of self-improvement concepts. If you choose the path for yourself, the knowledge, actions, and skills required to attain each level is at your fingertips.
This book:
Dispels the popular "rare chosen one" myth
Shows how anyone can choose themselves for greatness
Reveals two psychological models to increase self-concept
Explains critical core beliefs and strategies for success
Lays out the path to attaining the master progression level
This book is differs from most as it provides not only personal power concepts, like awareness, belief, and the sub-conscious, but it also provides the necessary business strategies, like intellectual property, “win-win” and conceive-believe-achieve. These concepts are usually kept separate, but in this book, they are interwoven for maximum benefit. Other personal growth books provide development concepts too, but they do not provide a solid set of accompanying business strategies. As a result of providing only concepts without strategies you may charge out, and make many mistakes.
The process of making mistakes can be a good thing because you learn so much from them, however, I want to reduce your learning curve as much as possible upfront to give you the highest probability of future success. The truth is that some strategies work better than others, and you can save yourself years of struggle by knowing what to do and thus, what to avoid. The most successful companies in the world use the business and success strategies in this book. When you adopt them as your own, it will shorten your path to success by up to 10 years, according to the author and visionary Marshall Thurber.
Let us begin by reviewing the current state of the world. Growing up in Western culture has never been easy. Although we live in the wealthiest time and place in the history of mankind, most of us are struggling. Even though there are opportunities all around us, making an adequate living and just getting by is the norm. We see visions of wealth and prosperity on TV, billboards, and on the Internet every day. Images are everywhere of people who have it all. We all want that for ourselves, but somehow the golden rainbow always seems to land on someone else’s door.
Why is this? Why is it that in the land of opportunity, so many of us remain disillusioned and broke? Even those who appear to be getting ahead are mostly living beyond their means and worrying about tomorrow. What is it about western culture that lulls people into a deep sleep and allows their lives to pass them by without taking a chance? Why do they continue not to believe in themselves, think themselves undeserving, or not smart enough?
I look around at the culture in which I was raised and see many reasons for this. First, the environment does not support or reward individuality or personal empowerment. Instead, our school system rewards being right, not making mistakes, and social conformity. Second, our media reflects and glorifies being average and poorly behaved. The media networks even encourage bad behavior on reality shows and portray being smart as undesirable and weird.
Third, the environment does not reward taking risks. For example, I sometimes took risks in school that resulted in poor grades or were interpreted as stupid questions. In my school, personal achievement was only measured in regurgitating knowledge, not new learning or creativity. In my high school, being different could result in social obscurity or being an outcast.
Television was my primary media source, and I loved