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A Passion for the Edge - Living Your Dreams Now
Book Information - About this Book, Awards, Back Cover, Inside Front Dust Jacket Flap, About the Author, Inside the Book, What People are Saying Alaskan author Tim Tyler has written an inspiring, critically acclaimed, award-winning book that uses a motorcycle trip as a metaphor for life's success journey. A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now describes a 6,500-mile adventure through the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness. It is both a physical journey with spectacular scenery, historic places, wild animals, and interesting people; and a mental journey that shows how to live your dreams despite perceived obstacles such as age, money, or the economy. Below are a few photo pages from the book.
Have you read how-to-succeed books and found they have not significantly changed your life? The reason they're ineffective is that each of us are unique. We have different dreams, we're at different stage in our lives, we have different skills, different backgrounds, different interests, different financial needs, different experiences. We are unique individuals.
Back Cover Have you ever asked yourself why books you've read on how to succeed have not changed your life or helped you start living your dreams? Do these books just add more stuff to your already lengthy "to do" list, but fail to produce significant results? "A Passion for the Edge - Live Your Dreams Now" will explains why concepts in how to succeed books don't work and will help you discover how to begin living your dreams NOW. I came from a modest home. My father went into the military before finishing high school. My parents are hardworking and caring but have never been financially wealthy. I was the third of eight children and the first of two sons. While growing up, kids my age liked me but I was not in the popular crowd. Following high school I left home, with just what I could carry in two suitcases, and joined the military. After basic training I met and married my wife and best friend, Joni. While in the military we had our first child, Noel. After the military Joni worked to help put me through college. At college we had our second child, Shannon. Within 6 months after leaving college I quit my first job. While I was working in my second job we had our third child, Cristi, shortly afterward I quit this job, found a job in Alaska, and we moved for the fourth time since leaving college. It was at this time I started reading books about how to succeed. I read dozens of books and have an extensive library on this topic but found most how to succeed concepts in these books were ineffective in changing my life. Then, I discovered the fundamental principles that make it possible for average people to do extraordinary things. I am a person of normal intelligence. I'm introverted and to this day still find it difficult to speak in public. I'm just an average person - perhaps a lot like you. So you can see why people laughed at me when I said I was going to retire at 55...then I retired at 50. Imagine what it would feel like for you to begin living the life of your dreams - you can begin today. It's simple. A river stops when the water freezes, and a dream stops when actions are frozen. You can only live your dream by living your dream. In "A Passion for the Edge - Live Your Dreams Now" you will discover how to succeed in living your dreams. No waiting necessary. "If you want what you've never had, you have to do what you've never done." This quotation seems rational. Yet, when it comes to living our dreams or succeeding in our lofty desires it sometimes feels like we're stuck in a routine, and cannot find a way out. Unfortunately, many people find themselves yearly refreshing a commitment to living their dreams, years move into decades, a lifetime passes, and their dreams remain unrealized. Why? What do we need to do to begin living our dreams?"A Passion for the Edge – Living Your Dreams Now," tackles this question head-on. The approach used is unique. How to begin living your dreams is developed at three levels. (1) The theoretical level addresses the required success principles. (2) The practical level helps you define specific actions. And (3) the emotional level makes your dreams vivid by showing what it is like to live a dream. Learning occurs by swirling together words, story, and pictures in a way that will ignite a passion for living your dreams. The approach will show how to discover the success principles that will let you master any challenge, or realize any dream. It will make the principles concrete, real, and alive. They will become part of you. "A Passion for the Edge – Living Your Dreams Now" can transform the way you live life by helping you embrace the possibility that there's nothing stopping you from beginning to live your dreams now. No waiting necessary.
Part 2 - Starting the Journey
Preface "All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them." Wa l t D i s n e y "You are never given a 'dream' without also being given the power to make it come true." R i c h a r d B a c h
Every day you decide either to live your dream, or to choose an alternate path. And each moment of your life, you are where you are because of the choices you have made. Choosing to live a dream is to choose to have a thrilling experience, one that excites you, that pulls you from your bed each morning, that thrusts you into each new day, and that ignites your passions. Your dreams are attainable, and you can begin living them today. Being able to live your dreams does not depend on whether the economy is up or down, whether you are married or single, or whether you are rich or poor. Living your dreams depends only on the choices you make each day. Unfortunately, for many people dreams exist merely as mental projections of imaginary places, characterized by fleeting moments of fantasy, and used simply to find brief relief from the mundane reality of their lives. A place yearned for, but never experienced. You do not have to accept where you are and what you are doing as inevitable. This book will help you discover within yourself the principles and tools that will allow you to transform your dreams from being something imaginary to being something real. It will show you how to begin to live your dreams now. It will lead you to an exhilarating, unexplored world of new perspectives. It will help you to understand that accepting the mundane is neither safer nor easier than living your dreams. It will give you the power to choose either to continue living an ordinary life, or to plunge into a life churning with anticipation and endless enthusiasm. The approach, used to show you how to live your dream, is unique. It integrates three powerful learning steps: (1) understanding the principles that will allow you to live your dream, (2) applying the principles in your daily life, and (3) showing what it is like to succeed in living a dream. This learning approach will enable you to apply the principles of success, and immediately make them a part of you. It will make the principles concrete, real, and alive rather than theoretical, abstract, and inanimate. Tethered to an adventure story about a motorcycle trip through the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness (one of my dreams) are the principles that will allow you to begin living your dreams. The story is extraordinary in that it shows you how to move from dreaming, to living your dreams. It is ordinary in that it is a dream you can see as being possible for anyone to live (important for realizing the full benefit of the three-step approach to learning). The actions required to start living your dreams are similar to those used to start reading this book. In both cases, only a beginning is necessary to step upon the path, and only a commitment is needed to take the journey. It is the path that defines the journey, and the journey that realizes the destination.
Midwest Book Review, December 2008 Motivating, unique and passionate!!! Amazon.com Limitless Adventure! Amazon.com Ready for the Edge Amazon.com DRIVEN TO LIVE LIFE Memoir offers roadmap for reaching goals, living dreams now ANCHORAGE, Alaska, September 2008 – Tim Tyler doesn't have time to make 'to-do' lists detailing far-off hopes and In a new book titled A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now, Tyler uses his own life experience to spur readers to start living their dream lives today. Framed by Tyler's exhilarating motorcycle trip through the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness—one of his lifelong dreams—the book reveals the fundamental principles that make it possible for average people to do extraordinary things. Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of most 'how to succeed' books, Tyler decided to be the master of his own destiny. Bucking conventional societal mores that favor putting off your dreams until after retirement, Tyler advocates living your dreams daily—with purpose and conviction. He offers readers solid advice on how to take stock of their own skills, talents and knowledge, and use that information to craft a customized success plan. His three powerful learning steps will help the reader move from abstract theories to concrete, real action steps. The memoir combines Tyler's adventurous story with 100+ color photographs and quotes from the likes of Helen Keller, Walt Disney, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and more. The result is a passionate account that manages to both inspire and teach. Jenkins Group Media Release Business, Biking, and Life - Sweet! The best kind of book - intimate and personal, but universal in its message. I think readers will learn more about their own philosophy of life through this book, and hopefully be empowered to take on their own challenges. (Okay, I hope I am. I certainly feel empowered after reading it!) Amazon.com Just Do It Amazon.com Inspiring, poetic and accessible! Using his motorcycle trip as a metaphor, Tyler is able to instill courage and excitement in the reader by explaining some of his first rides: "The air spoke to me with a meditative ohmmmmmmmme sound, inviting life to pour through my soul." (page 63 - I suggest reading that page twice!) I am now ready for my own journey - with or without a Honda Valkyrie! Amazon.com Refreshing and Inspiring! Amazon.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
Imagine walking into a mall to buy running shoes and seeing two shoe stores next to each other. One has a sign in the window that reads - One Size Fits All Running Shoes. The other store has a sign in the window that reads - Custom Fit Running Shoes. Where Would You Buy Your Running Shoes? Can a one-size-fits-all running shoe help you to run better?
This book differs from other books on success in that it does not give you a list of things you need to do be successful - the one-size-fits-all approach. Instead the book is written in a way that will allow you to discover the principles of success and then translate them into actions that apply specifically, and uniquely, to you and your dreams - the custom fit shoe approach.
This is an amazing photograph of a sunset I took the other day.Without a doubt one of the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen. It was blindingly brilliant. It looked like the horizon was on fire.
Winning Finalist in the Category Business: Motivational
A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now is an Independent Publisher Highlighted title. Highlighted titles "recognize the best of the newly released, independently published titles ... honored ... for exhibiting superior levels of creativity, originality, and high standards of design and production quality." (Quote from Independent Publishers Online Magazine)
Business Book Bronze Medal Winner in the category Success/Motivation. "The goal of the awards is to celebrate the innovation, intelligent, and creative aspects of the books that make us think, see, and work differently every day." (Quote from Independent Publishers Online Magazine)
Tim Tyler launched Minuteman missiles while in the U.S. Air Force, conducted research and development for Texaco, managed the development of some of the largest oil fields in North America for BP, headed a worldwide research and technical service organization in England, started two businesses, and traveled around the world. A five time patent holder, Tyler set the ambitious goal of retiring at age 55. Instead, he retired at age 50 - determined to live his dreams while young, and help others do the same. This is his first book.
"Someday..., After I..., I'm going to... All are common words to make excuses for why one isn't doing what they want to do now. "A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now" is a different sort of self-help book, telling readers that the best way to live their lives is to jump right into doing what they want to do. Everyone has different hopes and dreams, and there is no universal method that will get readers to their goals outside their own path to it. "A Passion for the Edge" tells of Tyler's story on the edge and how his story can help many readers."
dreams. He's too busy making them a reality.
What a cool book! Just the idea of riding a motorcycle through the wilderness of Alaska - alone! - is crazy enough to make this an interesting read. But Tyler uses his dry sense of humor, sharp insights about life, and his own success in business to make you, as reader, believe you could do it, too.| © Edenscape Publishing. All rights reserved. ph: 907.223.3624 • Email Web Site by: Sundog Media |
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