Book Review: The Secret To Life Transformation: How To Claim Your Destiny Now! by Julie Chrystyn

Why is it that some people seem to have it all? These fortunate individuals work in fulfilling careers, earn comfortable salaries, share loving relationships with family and friends and passionately pursue their dreams. What do they know and do that the rest of us don’t? More importantly - how can we be more like them?

In her new book, The Secret To Life Transformation: How To Claim Your Destiny Now!, Julie Chrystyn addresses these quandaries and provides thought-provoking, inspiring and exciting insight into how each of us can make our dreams come true and start living our best lives possible.

Chrystyn not only talks the talk. She’s walked the walk. When she was eight years old, her family was granted political asylum in the United States. Leaving behind their poverty-stricken, difficult past in Communist Yugoslavia, they came to America hoping to find an easier life. Instead, the family was greeted with new social and economic hardships. Adding insult to injury, when Chrystyn was 12 years old, she was diagnosed with a crippling spinal disorder and underwent extensive surgery and painful rehabilitation. Given the ill-fated prognosis of lifetime lower body paralysis, Chrystyn vehemently rejected this “life sentence" and fought her way back to health. During this time — with the same passion and determination that stimulated her recovery — she charted out the course for the rest of her life. Since then, Chrystyn not only achieved but far surpassed her original educational and professional aspirations.

However, The Secret To Life Transformations is not an autobiographical account of Chrystyn’s struggles and accomplishments. Instead, her personal journey motivated her to discover what makes some folks thrive while most others merely survive when faced with insurmountable circumstances. To uncover their secrets to success, she spent three years traveling the world interviewing over 300 “ordinary” individuals who rose above extreme hardships and misfortunes, turned their lives around and ultimately prospered. Though each one overcame numerous and diverse catastrophes, all followed similar paths to achieve the realization of their dreams. All had visions, took chances, never lost hope, and ultimately accomplished the near impossible. What it took to persevere and prosper is collectively captured in The Secret to Life Transformations.

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