As you become more God-centered, your personal and environmental reality tends to adjust toward harmony. Your intentions reflect your values and spiritual beliefs back out into the world. With your intention, i.e. losing weight/getting fit, you must live, breathe, eat and sleep what you're after. Here's how to use affirmations, visualization and grateful positivity to create success.

Our main job here on Earth is to take our attention off criticizing and finding fault, and instead look for ways to serve others, share the peace and joy of our hearts, and let others know we appreciate them. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwiriting." Appreciate others' beauty and kindness.

Intentional living is a powerful way to achieve happiness and health and to enrich your spiritual life. Intentional living is about making the decision every day to live the life you want most. If you don't have the resources, like time or money, it's fine to start small. Sometimes it's even better that way because consistency and perseverance are what matter the most in the long run.

This is the path to self-mastery: to surrender, trust and to allow your sense of purpose to spring from inner guidance. Maybe you are overcoming an illness, a financial setback, some major offense or depression. As you struggle, remember that you are fulfilling your life's purpose and you will prevail. Be your own hero. We are all meant to live a heroic life.

The more you live from inner guidance, the Christ Light—that peaceful, loving center within you—the more you’ll find that everything you need to meet your wants and desires will be provided. That's where meditation comes in. Not only can it help with achieving goals, which I'll explain more about in a moment, but it can also become one of your success stories around goal setting.

Anyone who goes about living with a sense of serenity, contentment and grace has no need to manipulate others. It is rare for a person who is reasonably satisfied with his or her life to try and run someone else’s. It's when you feel unlovable and your self-esteem is low that you can more easily be manipulated by other people. Work on your confidence to have more faith in yourself.

Make an internal shift of inches from your mind to your heart. You'll find yourself more certain, fulfilled, successful, content and peaceful than ever before. You will be living in a state of grace. To live in grace is to experience our burdens being lifted from us from time to time; that our passage becomes smoother and more enjoyable, even when conditions seem hard to bear. Here's how:

My mom used to often remind me of this lovely phrase she created: "The more you love, the more you're loved and the lovelier you are." We all want the same thing—to feel appreciated, valued, respected and loved. Treat others with kindness today. If we could all live by the Golden Rule, our country and world would be a safer, happier and more peaceful haven for everyone.

Love empowers us. Nothing will transform and enrich life faster than the consistent experience of love. Let others know that you love them. Tell them and show them, often. Don’t wait until later. Here's one of my favorite Bible quotes: 1 Corinthians 13:13 — Three things will last forever—faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love. 

Self-mastery means becoming the hero of your own life. With these empowering ideas laid out in the pages of this book, you'll be able to give up being victim in favor of being a master. You have the keys to your life. It's up to you to unlock your full potential and lead a great life. If you want to get in shape, no one is going to be able to accomplish these things except for you!