someone, at times, when your buttons will be pushed, and YOU will be pushed past your limit of patience and self-control. YOU have to learn this truth of life and remember it, that those who have and will mistreat YOU were or are a victim of someone who made them that way. Someone in their life or past times has mistreated them with no respect, with no love, or damaged them to the point that they seek and demand attention or want justice.

   When these moments of victimizing happen to YOU, it is will be very important that YOU remember to take a deep breath, and step back from the situation at hand and put your reaction on hold untill YOU can recall the occurrence later and begin to examine the facts of it. That will be the time when YOU can begin to diagnose and learn how to deal with these types of people and/or situations or dismiss them as just unimportant to your life's path. (this victimization will be discussed in depth in the first chapter) This includes each of us.

   People are not the only thing that give us our “ENOUGH moments." We can be alone, and something happens, or we see, or we hear something that will disrupt our peace and push us over the edge. (If we let it.)

   I want to reveal the hidden truth of life that I will speak of so much in each chapter and book of this series. That truth is that success, failure, happiness, and unhappiness is all based on the hard fact that so many good people have been destroyed by because they have not exercised their God-given right of choice. Each human is born with it, but they, and perhaps YOU too, have lost that "power of choice" when they became victims at the hands of someone or something in their life. And all the truths presented in this series are words directly dictated by Father in Heaven. Now, I will tell you that when I first became Christian when I was 16 years old. The laws of Heaven (the Ten Commandments) were religious, but what about and my individual life? I discovered that I didn't know what the laws of life were! My parents were not very confident and sure of their parenting skills, because they themselves didn't have excellent parents. Plus they had their own earthly life difficulties to deal with. So for me it was like I was given a brand new perfect car but I had no book of instructions or knowledge of how to even begin to drive a car. So it is with life, we give our lives to Christ to follow His laws of heaven, but what about the earth laws? What about the laws of living that we didn't or weren't taught growing up? Well, that is why our Father chose to bring this book into print through me and my overwhelmed life. I was told that I wouldn't be writing about His Gospel of Religion: I would be writing about and defining for His children, the Gospel of Living, which so many of His children have been deprived of while growing up! I have fought with Father so much in the past first year while beginning this enormous mission He has given me. I just can't believe that He decided that I was the one to do this. His answer to me was that remember and know Michael, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” But a few months later I argued again with my Creator. How can I do this, Father? I've had so many traumas in my life, so many awful memories in my past; how and why am I to be the ONE to bring the Gospel of Living to all your children? His answer again to my heart was plain and simple, “All your obstacles that you faced and passed through were to give you the experiences that you would use to show examples of how to face problems successfully to my children. Your experiences will give absolute solutions to those who read these words. Well, you'd think that would be enough for me to put an end to my objections of this task I was commissioned to complete, but no, not for me. I always carry a problem further until the last nail is set. So, then my last complaint and my most prolific contention. I stated in a very much  improper way to speak to Father that I have no value, I don't love myself, and I'm emotionally empty. Then the final nail in my coffin of objections came to my heart and broke it. Father touch me, and said the most astounding words that a person could ever receive. My loving, caring, and concerned Father said to my heart and soul, “Michael, I didn't choose you because of your abilities, I chose you because you are worthy to do this work for me and my children. Oh, what joy, what life-changing words. I was chosen because I have always heard His spirit teach me and warn me when necessary. Now, for sure, there was no doubt that I could do this work for Him, and complete it successfully. So, I do not say these words to brag or to stand out among Father's children. I had no idea that my entire life was culminating to this one purpose of giving back to Father's children the twelve keys to balanced living, which is the prelude to entering Father's kingdom. 

   In this first book of the series, "The Perfect Human, Keys To Balanced Living,” YOU will learn how to be always in full command of yourself, AT ALL TIMES! “The Key to Changing” is the first of twelve books and the full series is a culmination of resolutions, mindful resolve and the twelve Keys of YOUR heart on how to manage the tough people, bad situations and our own "ENOUGH moments,” in our daily lives. In the first chapter which is titled, "The Secret of Your Heart," YOU will learn about the most important secret of all that will enable YOU to propel yourself to higher ground where achievements will become second nature to YOU. YOU won't even have to think about it. I can not nor do I want to reveal that sacred secret to you at this point. But you will discover it when you read the first chapter.

   The information and knowledge I express in “The Perfect Human, Keys to Balanced Living” are my knowledge I have gained from my many years of living with bad situations, bad conditions, and bad people which have created many dysfunctional behaviors within me throughout my life. But I reached my own boiling point and I decided that I was not going to let myself be ruled and controlled by my own behaviors or the behaviors of others. I WAS definitely going to find out how to change.

   I will draw from the experiences and results of my sometime dysfunctional parents, my many and sometimes awful employers, good and bad friends, and my distant and up-close relatives, to demonstrate and reveal to you the resolutions of how to overcome the direct affects of the “Victimizing persons and events” in your own life.

   I will show how I learned “The Secret of my own Heart” which opened the twelve keys which I already had but didn't know of them. These keys were to help me to change my life from one of great stress to one of calmness and peace. I have learned through my deep and sincere, internal search for answers, and sincere prayers how to take and keep control of my own life in order to keep the doorway to my mind and heart shut from anything that would take me down or make me feel less than adequate in my everyday life. Even if it was my own mind.

   After the passing of my wife of 37 years from Covid-19 and the discovery and removal of a golf-ball sized tumor in my left temple, an attempted murder on me, and an accident that destroyed my car and nearly my life, I began to doubt if God still loved me. So, I asked Him in deep prayer, "Father, don't you love me anymore?" He quickly replied to my heart, "Yes, of course, I do." He then gave me words to remember in my mind that created a Mantra to help me through my doubtful or "ENOUGH moments," and to be able to continue growing, progressing, and succeeding in my life.

   The Mantra just simply states:

I’ve had ENOUGH.

I am ENOUGH.

I will be ENOUGH.

I am more than ENOUGH. 

  That means to me, that I know I can be in control of every situation I will be involved with. I have these words posted in my house and I whisper these words to myself many times throughout my day, and especially during my own “ENOUGH moments." A few days later, Father had me add three more phrases that pertained to my Mantra. They are:

I'm always ENOUGH.

I was born ENOUGH.

I was born to HEAL.

   These are the seven stages in which we each must each commit to in our minds and in our hearts and remember them regularly, so that each of us are able to transform our individual lives into very productive, and progressing individuals. No matter how lost we feel, or how hopeless everything seems.

   The brain is a marvelous and powerful tool in finding and keeping your own “normalcy” with which, YOU can live. Self-talk and memories are repeated so many times in our minds that they burrow down deep into our consciousness and will take time, work and practice to change them and to alter their effect on us.

   Each human being has an element that presents to us false truths and thoughts to our minds known as, "A.N.T.S." which defines as "Automatic Negative Thoughts." This is a recent discovery and will be discussed more fully in chapter four of this book.

   Everyone's "normalcy" is so different because of their own environment, health, and training that we must find and see the truth of our lives for what we really are and that is that “I am ENOUGH!” YOU are starting on a path now that will lead YOU on your own journey’s new beginning, of learning and healing.

   As YOU begin reading “The Key to Changing," YOU should not take in too much new information. Perhaps, feel out the chapter titles to see if any titles attract your inner-self. Your heart will be able to recognize the information YOU will need to begin with, as YOU read through the table of contents. I've made each chapter title pretty easy to discern wht the whole chapter will be about. Not only that but as you read each chapter title from the table of contents, your mind will completely understand and consider what it's importance is. And your heart will probably feel a little bit of confirmation that that chapter is the one. But be careful because the chapters are all inter-connected, so you can do what I suggested to pick which chapter to start with or just start reading from the first

chapter.

   YOU will be able to "feel" what YOU should begin with, but the choice will be up to YOU. Begin where YOU want to start and go as slow or as fast as YOU want to go. The second page of each chapter has been left blank so that YOU can add notes that are important to YOU or that YOU will want to remember or review later. Just remember you are in control of how you deal with reading this book.

   There will be a lot of learning revealed, and I would surely recommend that YOU donot take too much new truths and knowledge into your mind and senses at once. Changes will come to YOU and affect your personal normalcy almost immediately as you read and start your self-healing. Your entire life will be transformed into who YOU were meant to be.

   Not all of the words in this “The Perfect Human, Keys to Balanced Living” series will be of benefit to YOU. Some chapters will seemingly be completely opposite of what YOU may feel YOU need to read or to learn. Some chapters will obviously not be completely for what YOU need, while others may be “spot on” and YOU should read it. Whatever the case may be, YOU have a choice to make as YOU read the words and books of this “The Perfect Human, Keys to Balanced Living," series.

   As YOU may have or will notice, I have capitalized all words of "YOU" that I have used in this series. I have done this purposefully because just as so many people repeatedly tell themselves that "I am ugly, or that I am fat, or I am not loved" so many times each day, I have used the self-identifying word of "YOU" to repeatedly pronounce the word "YOU" into your own consciousness and subconscious to help YOU re-emphasize the importance that YOU are within your life and the world. Once YOU learn of, and apply the "Keys to Balanced Living" revealed in this series, no one or nothing will ever be able to destroy your self-love, your self-care, or your self-worth, ever, ever again.

   To assimilate and apply the lessons and instructions that are found herein or to turn away from its knowledge and dismiss these words as untrue and inapplicable to your life, will be, of course, your own personal decision.

   Finally, I want YOU to remember that what YOU do, what YOU             think, what YOU say and how this book will affect YOU, your life and those around YOU, will always be your own personal choice and it will always be your choice …... FOREVER!