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    Real Life Advantage: It's About Gaining a Better Perspective
    Real Life Advantage: It's About Gaining a Better Perspective
    Real Life Advantage: It's About Gaining a Better Perspective
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    Real Life Advantage: It's About Gaining a Better Perspective

    By Kevin Strong

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    This is a great read! On top of that, it is insightful, brilliant, and entertaining.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Strong
    Release dateOct 16, 2017
    ISBN9781370425655
    Real Life Advantage: It's About Gaining a Better Perspective
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    Kevin Strong

    I was born is 1983. I know some of you are already thinking well he is so young, and I am. I have a lot to learn and experience. I need to practice and experience everything in this book to be wiser indeed.I grew up in Bountiful, Utah were I had a typical upbringing with going to public school and playing with friends. I handled peer pressure, me being a bully and others bullying me. I considered myself unpopular and also popular. I was also really good at all sports and was involved in scouts where I earned my Eagle Scout.What changed from what my peers were doing is that I had fallen in love at the end of 9th grade to a beautiful and adventurous girl and I had gotten my girlfriend pregnant. We knew that the right thing for us to do was to get married, so we did. Two months after our son was born to us. Mind you we were in the middle of our sophomore year of high school. I started my own business to support our family as we moved close to 7 times in the next 4 years supporting a young marriage and family. I sold the business to support my efforts to graduate from college with a Bachelors Degree from Weber State University with a 3.86/4.0 GPA. During college we welcomed our first and second daughters. Upon graduating at the end of 2006 we moved to Georgia to work for Shaw Industries (a carpet manufacturer) for 4 months of training and then moved back to Utah as a Territory Manager selling carpet.In the fall of 2008 I was able to Head Coach my son's little league football team which pleased me to volunteer and give to others. At this time the economy had forced many companies in the USA to lay people off. I was eventually let go in November. I immediately was given a job from my good reputation with Bentley Prince Street (another carpet manufacturer). Then five months later (April 2009) the economy had gotten even worse and I was let go again. Through daily life stress and many-many-many challenges that affected our family that is personal to us that need not to be shared we have overcome these challenges.Like many others I have been through many challenging and noble things. My wife and I just celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary at the age of 26. We have three wonderful children ages 9, 7 and 5. I have volunteered in our community many times and continue to coach. I am grateful for the wisdom I have learned thus far. I am pleased with what I have endured thus far, accomplished thus far, and the people I have had connecting with thus far.

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      Real Life Advantage - Kevin Strong

      Real Life

      Advantage:

      It’s About Gaining a Better Perspective

      Kevin T. Strong

      Copyright © 2017 Kevin T. Strong

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 1978132093

      ISBN-13: 978-1978132092

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Beginning

      Chapter 2: A Twist of Events

      Chapter 3: Not Out of the Woods

      Chapter 4: The Six Advantages and Implications

      Chapter 5: Where Shall I Rest My Head

      Afterward: Is It Happily Ever After?

      Closing Comments: My Hope Going Forward

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      Introduction

      Life has a funny way of teaching you lessons if you are aware of what is going on around you. Sometimes those lessons come from subtle places, places that don't necessarily scream for attention. Sometimes they come easily, but they rarely come without you actively looking. For the last several years, I have had the privilege and responsibility of having many eyes turned to me as I have worked with individuals and companies all over North America, people who are looking for ways to improve, ways to get an edge in a competitive and rapidly-changing market, ways to improve their relationships and their personal lives. It is an honor to have that kind of trust from my audiences, and I see it as a great responsibility. The purpose of this book project really came out of the desire to reach my audiences more effectively and to have an avenue to dive into some of the most important strategies I share with my audiences, but in even more depth. In this book I give in a good read, entertaining in a fun type of way, everything of value I can to benefit others that I could contain to the written word. I’ve broken it down simply to the following three important areas:

      1. Our greatest factor for success is gaining a better perspective (that is a big statement and I will do my best to explain herein)

      2. There are Six Advantages that successful people of any background or nationality tend to exhibit which help them maintain a better perspective, and it is imperative we learn what these Six Advantages are, even though most of us are probably applying some of these on a daily basis (on the other side, some of us are not applying any of them).

      3. What the three most common blocks are that prevent people from gaining a better perspective.

      This information I have to offer may not have a company of smart marketers, incentives to distributors, or full-time employees selling the benefits and payment plans to make it be the next Tony Robbins or Dale Carnegie Training Seminar, but time will show how powerful this message is and how much value will be realized because of it, just like history is starting to realize the story of Nikola Tesla. Do you know the story of Nikola Tesla?

      Nikola Tesla devised the AC (alternating current) system that we use in our homes today. AC offered great advantages over the rival DC (direct current) system that Thomas Edison came up with. By using Tesla's transformers, AC voltages could be stepped up (or down) and transmitted over long distances through thin wires. DC could not, since it required a large power plant every square mile and had to be transmitted through very thick cables. Tesla also invented electric motors that today are used in every appliance in your house. He invented fluorescent bulbs and neon signs. He designed the world's first hydroelectric plant, in Niagara Falls and patented the first speedometer for cars.

      Thomas Edison, whose money was invested in DC power systems, did his best to discredit Tesla. Edison even went so far as to claim that AC electricity was far more dangerous than his DC power.

      You should know that this was not the first feud between these two inventors. When Nikola Tesla worked for Thomas Edison he was offered $50,000 to improve some of Edison's ideas, but when he delivered, Edison claimed that he had only been joking, and refused to pay him. Edison instead offered a weekly pay raise of $10 (on top of his existing wage of $18 per week). Disgusted, Tesla resigned on the spot, thus beginning the lifelong feud between the two inventors.

      As alternating current started to take off and Tesla finally received some of the recognition he deserved, Edison began to feel the threat to his direct current technology. He and his major investor, J.P. Morgan, began a campaign of slanderous propaganda against Tesla and his technology. Tesla knew what he had would benefit people more than what Edison and his technology could benefit humanity so in order to keep electricity inexpensive to the public, Nikola Tesla sold George Westinghouse his own royalties, which were worth $12 million, for just $216,000.

      Eventually, on January 7, 1943, Tesla died penniless and alone in Room #3327 of the Hotel New Yorker. Soon after his death, the United States government (with the help of the FBI) seized all of his research materials and writings, most of which never again reappeared.

      I see it as my responsibility to give what I have, just like Nikola Tesla did when Thomas Edison’s direct current electricity had its limitations. Nikola Tesla knew he had a gift, a thing he could provide to help and benefit people and he wanted them to have it even if that meant making poor business deals so more people could benefit from what he had. I hope you will enjoy what I will share with you in this book and may it bless your life and the lives that you come in contact with.

      Chapter 1: The Beginning

      My name is Kevin Strong and I live in Centerville, Utah, a great city about 15 minutes north of our state capitol, Salt Lake City. It is a nice place that experiences all four seasons and has a family-centered community. In Centerville you will often hear of the gratitude of parents that say it takes a village to raise a son or daughter to be a respectable adult. I agree with that statement.

      Family is important to a majority of us across the nation, and much of our focus is our children. I have a son and two daughters, and they are growing up so quickly. Growing up quickly may be an understatement. My son at the age of 13 grew to my height of six feet. We shared the same shoe size for a month and now that he’s a little older he wears a size 14! We’ve had this little competition in our household since our kids were little of who’s the tallest with pencil marks on the wall ever since they were little. So recently I told my son that I was still growing too and he said, Yeah, Dad, like this, as he stretched his arms wide to indicate that my growth in recent years had become more horizontal than vertical.

      My children are growing up so quickly and as they grow, their dreams for their own futures are starting to take shape. They want to be pro athletes, doctors and the incredible hulk. In my line of work speaking and training for organizations I make the similarity that like children, we have goals, dreams and desires. We want to run a marathon, we want to reach the organization’s goals, earn our first million and spend our first million! We have things we want to experience: smelling, tasting, taking that vacation or being around our loved ones on their special day. We also want to overcome, overcome things that everybody may know about us such as a physical blemish we were born with, an illness, an unfortunate turn of events, a car accident or… things only we know about… or a few close friends know about.

      Imagine what life would be like if you could take what you know now and use that to your advantage 10 years ago, 20 years ago or at the start of our earliest years in life. This would certainly give us a competitive advantage

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