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""Smith renders self-help as a personal and intimate experience, with a slew of personal advice, anecdotes, and, most of all, encouragement-to stay positive, practice self-forgiveness, and stop worrying about situations outside of your control. He speaks to readers in gentle, casual tones, never losing sight of his rosy outlook-even when addressing weighty topics like end-of-life events and toxic emotions. ... [An] upbeat guide to creating a joyful, fulfilling life."" -BookLife Reviews Improving the conversation you have with yourself can help you to improve your relationships with others, and set you on the path to achieving a more fulfilling life. Start Today offers a vision of self-help as a personal philosophy, which shares many of its timeless precepts with major world religions from Christianity to Buddhism. In his personal, conversational writing style, author Jesse S. Smith describes the simple decisions that any of us can choose to make, at any time, to get our lives onto the best possible path. After his own journey to rock bottom and back, Smith embarked on an inspiring series of life adventures: including campaigning for public office, working on a movie crew, traveling abroad, and much more! When you begin to believe that anything is possible, then you become unstoppable. Based on Smith's own personal experience, as well as a number of case studies drawn from the lives of the author's personal and musical heroes, Start Today illustrates how each of us can live with purpose, beginning with this moment, right now. Whatever change you're ready to make in your life, you can start today. It all begins when we make that choice. We can choose how we focus our attention, and how we direct our efforts. It's a choice we can continue to make, at every moment of every day. Start today!

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""[In] this upbeat homage to the power of self-love... Smith calls on readers to move past their present circumstances, step outside of the opinions and judgments of others, and 'change the story you tell yourself about your life.' ... Smith renders self-help as a personal and intimate experience, with a slew of personal advice, anecdotes, and, most of all, encouragement-to stay positive, practice self-forgiveness, and stop worrying about situations outside of your control. He speaks to readers in gentle, casual tones, never losing sight of his rosy outlook ... Those pep talk snippets are both welcoming and refreshing, a soothing answer to the moments in life that can feel insurmountable. ... [An] upbeat guide to creating a joyful, fulfilling life."" -BookLife Reviews ""In Start Today, Jesse Smith shares his inspiring journey of transforming his mindset from negative to positive, embracing the good in life, and finding the courage to pursue his dreams. ... He shares what he has learned from other great authors and how he put those teachings into practice in his own life. We all can live a better and more fulfilling life. ... There is no better time than to Start Today."" -Harry Spaight, Author of Selling With Dignity &Sales Made Easy podcast host ""It's a conversational style book [of] life's learnings. ... Reading it on paper stopped me in my tracks!"" -Vicki J. O'Grady-Longo, MA Executive Leadership, The JoyKindler LivinJAGGeD

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Jesse S. Smith wants to help YOU live your best life. After his own personal journey to rock bottom and back, the philosophy of self-help was instrumental in motivating Smith to campaign for public office, work on a movie film crew, run his first half-marathon: and more! Smith's inspiring life story demonstrates that our mistakes and disappointments do not need to limit us. We can return to the light, and live a more fulfilling life in pursuit of our own powerful sense of purpose. Now Smith is excited to share with you the concepts and philosophy of self-help, and he hopes that these ideas will benefit you and help you in your own life as much as they have helped him in his. Jesse S. Smith is a multimedia creative. At the time of this book's publication, his current projects include music and film production as well as book publishing. Smith lives in the great State of Oregon with his wife of 19 years and their two unstoppable children.

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