Love Louder: 33 Ways to Amplify Your Life

by Preston Smiles Narrated by Preston Smiles

Overview

Former bad boy-turned-inspirational messenger Preston Smiles shakes things up in the world of personal development, sharing a uniquely modern, love-based approach on how to live with more excitement, clarity, and confidence.

Preston Smiles, born in Compton and raised in Los Angeles, is no stranger to a life of adventure. As a teen he joined a local gang that was first involved in petty theft but later escalated into more dangerous crimes. One night when Preston was fifteen, he was faced with a decision to take a routine ride of mischief with the friends or stay home. Intuition told him not to go. Within an hour, everyone in that car was shot. This tragic event shook him to his core and catapulted him to finding higher purpose for himself.

Love Louder presents a positive approach for getting more love and meaning out of life. With the lessons he's learned through the years, he distills ancient wisdom and new thought teachings into thirty-three timeless tools to living your best life and asks questions such as:

-What do you truly believe you deserve? Are your actions reflecting that?

-What are you a slave to? Facebook? Twitter? Alcohol? Him? Her?

-Do you have the need to be “right” all the time?

Love Louder can help you tackle these everyday challenges and teach you how to live with more excitement, productivity, clarity, and confidence. Full of insights and powerful anecdotes, Preston's motivational story is a heartwarming read for anyone seeking guidance on overall happiness and fulfillment in life.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

04/04/2016
Life coach Smiles presents a concise but unoriginal system of 33 tenets designed for creating a positive outlook and, consequently, a more fulfilling life. These tenets range from the abstract (“trust the journey of life”) to the more tangible (spend more time in nature). Smiles encourages living with gratitude, choosing forgiveness over resentment, and turning “wounds into wisdom.” Many tips involve mental retraining to enhance self-confidence, such as learning it’s okay to say “no” with the “People Pleaser Recovery Program,” respecting intuition, and ditching society’s warped standards in favor of authenticity, which involves creating a vision of success independent of those standards and designing a proper course of action towards one’s individual goals. The system is a pastiche, interspersing instruction with inspirational quotes and hashtagged “challenges” that encourage making necessary changes such as reorienting one’s “disempowering language” and identifying and eliminating bad habits. Smiles’s life amplification system is a noble pursuit and its sleek design makes it convenient, but it largely consists of material that has been covered well by others. Agent: Steve Ross, Abrams Artist Agency. (June)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171178659
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	07/19/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

Love Louder
Trust your dreams, your heart, and the journey of life . . . even when you don’t understand it.

Some people get so caught up in the destination that they miss that life is about the journey. They’re so focused on the finish line that they miss that the beauty is in what and who you become on the way to the destination. I’ve received so many blessings in disguise in the form of health scares, people passing away, breakups, breakdowns, and so much more; and the thing that has supported me most is trusting in the journey. There is always more than meets the eye in every situation; and when we trust and have faith that all is well, even when it doesn’t appear to be, we open ourselves up to new possibilities that we can apply in our lives.

When we trust the journey of life, wholly and completely, we don’t need to know what is unfolding or why; we simply need to be present to the experience of it. Trusting the journey means that even if we don’t understand what’s unfolding right now, we have an unshakable belief that it’s happening because circumstances are rearranging themselves for our highest good. It means knowing that for every door that closes, a window of opportunity opens. I’ve noticed that many people get so down about the front door’s slamming in their face that they miss the open window and the back door that swung open at the same time.

Ever since my house

burnt down,

I see the moon more clearly.

—from the movie Ashes and Snow

Sometimes it’s not until we’ve had it all taken away that we truly understand what it means to have faith. In those moments, standing metaphorically naked and vulnerable, we’re forced to surrender to what is so that we can allow the journey to unfold as it needs to. Sometimes certain people or circumstances aren’t meant for our lives, and we often don’t realize it until we look back, years later. When we trust the journey, we can rest assured that every breakdown is a catalyst for a breakthrough.
#LOVELOUDERAFFIRMATION
Today I am available for all the good that is happening right now, regardless of how it may appear.

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