{"id":253,"date":"2009-05-25T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/?p=253"},"modified":"2012-03-16T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:32:27","slug":"believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"BELIEVE IT! Barbara Guggenheim finds inspiration in a new book by Julie Chrystyn."},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Barbara Guggenheim<\/strong><\/p>\n

WE LIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Many are\u00a0depressed, scaling back, or falling behind. Yet, there\u00a0are some people who not only survive but thrive\u00a0regardless of times and circumstances.<\/p>\n

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What do they know that the rest of us don’t? As\u00a0I was pondering the question, I met Julie Chrystyn,\u00a0a new girl in town. She’s written\u00a0The Secret Of Life\u00a0Transformation<\/a>\u00a0(Phoenix Books, $25.95), a half\u00a0how-to, half inspirational book that takes on this\u00a0issue: How do you create a vision for your life\u00a0and make that vision a reality?<\/p>\n

She combines\u00a0no-nonsense instructions with interviews with 12\u00a0extraordinary individuals-from composer David\u00a0Foster to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who’ve\u00a0achieved mind-boggling success against\u00a0impossible odds. She makes the point it doesn’t\u00a0matter where you’ve come from-if you have a laser sharp\u00a0vision, you can get anywhere you want.<\/p>\n

As Larry King states in the book’s foreword,\u00a0believers\u00a0“create visions far beyond our realities and\u00a0go for the gold in defiance of obstacles.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Julie Chrystyn’s own journey is the stuff of fairy\u00a0tales. A poor kid from rural, formerly-Communist\u00a0Yugoslavia, she migrated to Chicago. At 12, she\u00a0underwent radical surgery for severe scoliosis and\u00a0spent a year in bed in a full-body cast. Told that\u00a0her lower body might be paralyzed for life, she\u00a0persevered and, two years later, broke her school’s\u00a0record by jumping rope 3,789 times. She became\u00a0a journalist and sought-after ghostwriter for biographies\u00a0of the rich and famous, married the man of\u00a0her dreams, bought the publishing company she\u00a0worked for, and moved into a Bel Air mansion.<\/p>\n

She also flies around the world in a $50 million\u00a0Bombardier. If the world isn’t your oyster – yet – pick\u00a0up a copy of\u00a0The Secret Of Life Transformation.<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Barbara Guggenheim WE LIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES. Many are\u00a0depressed, scaling back, or falling behind. Yet, there\u00a0are some people who not only survive but thrive\u00a0regardless of times and circumstances. What do they know that the rest of us don’t? As\u00a0I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-articles-by-barbara","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraguggenheim.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}