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The Purpose-Driven® Life Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader® format Copyright © 2002 by Rick Warren This title is also available as a Zondervan audio product. Visit www. zondervan.com/audiopages for more information. Requests for information should be addressed to: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530 ISBN 0-310-25482-5 a part of this copyright page. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Illustrations by Michael Halbert, Copyright © 2002 Michael Halbert Interior design by Jim Dobbs, Mary Deschenes, Julie Head Printed in the United States of America The Scripture versions cited in this book are identified in appendix 3, which hereby becomes This book is dedicated to you. Before you were born, God planned this moment in your life. It is no accident that you are reading this book. God longs for you to discover the life he created you to live—here on earth, and forever in eternity. It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ, . . . he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. Ephesians 1:11 (Msg) I am grateful to the hundreds of writers and teachers, both classical and contemporary, who have shaped my life and helped me learn these truths. I thank God and you for the privilege of sharing them with you. A Journey with Purpose 9 My Covenant 13 WHAT ON EARTH AM I HERE FOR? Day 1 It All Starts with God 17 Day 2 You Are Not an Accident 22 Day 3 What Drives Your Life? 27 Day 4 Made to Last Forever 36 Day 5 Seeing Life from God’s View 41 Day 6 Life Is a Temporary Assignment 47 Day 7 The Reason for Everything 53 PURPOSE #1: You Were Planned for God’s Pleasure Day 8 Planned for God’s Pleasure 63 Day 9 What Makes God Smile? 69 Day 10 The Heart of Worship 77 Day 11 Becoming Best Friends with God 85 Day 12 Developing Your Friendship with God 92 Day 13 Worship That Pleases God 100 Day 14 When God Seems Distant 107 PURPOSE #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Day 15 Formed for God’s Family 117 Day 16 What Matters Most 123 Day 17 A Place to Belong 130 C O NTENTS Day 18 Experiencing Life Together 138 Day 19 Cultivating Community 145 Day 20 Restoring Broken Fellowship 152 Day 21 Protecting Your Church 160 PURPOSE #3: You Were Created to Become Like Christ Day 22 Created to Become Like Christ 171 Day 23 How We Grow 179 Day 24 Transformed by Truth 185 Day 25 Transformed by Trouble 193 Day 26 Growing through Temptation 201 Day 27 Defeating Temptation 209 Day 28 It Takes Time 217 PURPOSE #4: You Were Shaped for Serving God Day 29 Accepting Your Assignment 227 Day 30 Shaped for Serving God 234 Day 31 Understanding Your Shape 241 Day 32 Using What God Gave You 249 Day 33 How Real Servants Act 257 Day 34 Thinking Like a Servant 265 Day 35 God’s Power in Your Weakness 272 PURPOSE #5: You Were Made for a Mission Day 36 Made for a Mission 281 Day 37 Sharing Your Life Message 289 Day 38 Becoming a World-Class Christian 297 Day 39 Balancing Your Life 305 Day 40 Living with Purpose 312 320 323 325 Notes 327 About the Author 338 About the Publisher 339 Appendix 1: Discussion Questions Appendix 2: Resources Appendix 3: Why Use So Many Translations? A JOURNEY WITH PURPOSE Getting the Most from This Book This is more than a book; it is a guide to a 40-day spiritual journey that will enable you to discover the answer to life’s most important question: What on earth am I here for? By the end of this journey you will know God’s purpose for your life and will understand the big picture—how all the pieces of your life fit together. Having this perspective will reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, increase your satisfaction, and, most important, prepare you for eternity. Your Next 40 Days Today the average life span is 25,550 days. That’s how long you will live if you are typical. Don’t you think it would be a wise use of time to set aside 40 of those days to figure out what God wants you to do with the rest of them? The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days: A Journey with Purpose 9 • Noah’s life was transformed by 40 days of rain. • Moses was transformed by 40 days on Mount Sinai. • The spies were transformed by 40 days in the Promised Land. • David was transformed by Goliath’s 40-day challenge. • Elijah was transformed when God gave him 40 days of strength from a single meal. • The entire city of Nineveh was transformed when God gave the people 40 days to change. • Jesus was empowered by 40 days in the wilderness. • The disciples were transformed by 40 days with Jesus after his resurrection. The next 40 days will transform your life. This book is divided into 40 brief chapters. I strongly urge you to read only one chapter a day, so you will have time to think about the implications for your life. The Bible says, “Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do.” One reason most books don’t transform us is that we are so eager to read the next chapter, we don’t pause and take the time to seriously consider what we have just read. We rush to the next truth without reflecting on what we have learned. Don’t just read this book. Interact with it. Underline it. Write your own thoughts in the margins. Make it your book. Personalize it! The books that have helped me most are the ones that I reacted to, not just read. Four Features to Help You At the end of each chapter is a section called “Thinking about My Purpose.” There you will find: • A Point to Ponder. This is a nugget of truth that summarizes a principle of purpose-driven living that you can reflect on throughout your day. Paul told Timothy, “Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.” 2 The Purpose-Driven Lif

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If you haven't yet heard of James Connelly, it's probably because he is more commonly known by his nickname, "The Penny Stock Prophet," given to him by his peers due to his uncanny ability to discover "breakout" penny stocks just days before they experience RECORD gains.

In the last 12 months, Connelly A.K.A "The Penny Stock Prophet" has become an internet sensation due to his stock picking strategy, that has changed the lives of hundreds of his followers.

As a 19 year-old college student, Connelly excelled in his studies. In his own words, "School was just something that always came naturally for me. It was too easy, and over time I just started to lose interest. I wanted something different, I needed to find something else to challenge me. That's when I decide to turn to trading stocks."

Connelly always had an interest in the stock market, even at a young age. When he was still a teenager, Connelly's father taught him how to read charts, and quarterly earnings reports. "My dad even got me a subscription to the Wall Street Journal for my 16th birthday, " says Connelly.

Having an understanding of the fundamentals of the market, at such a young age, was advantageous to Connelly's eventual future as an investor. The prospect of riches, and the unlimited possibilities that the stock market offered, soon began to recapture Connelly's imagination

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"The stock market to me was just a big puzzle. It fascinated me. I felt that if I could figure out the pieces to that puzzle, I could develop a strategy that would give me a huge advantage over other traders," Says Connelly, "I knew it would take a lot of trial and error, but I was convinced I could develop a method that would give me an edge in finding the next breakout stock."

On a whim, Connelly opened his first trading account his freshman year in college. "Initially, it started off has just a hobby. I wanted to learn the process, and start small. Once I figured out a strategy that could win consistently, then it was time to turn it up a notch."

Connelly began like any other investor. Studying charts, utilizing resistance calculators, analyzing financial reports, and re-learning the basic fundamentals of trading.

Connelly's hobby soon became an obsession as he began skipping his classes, preferring to spend the majority of his time researching and trading stocks.

"I was making more money from my dorm room than most people make at their jobs, so I just figured going to class was a waste of time. I was on to something, and I wanted to keep the momentum going."

To Connelly, spending the day trading was more exciting and satisfying than sitting in a classroom being lectured. Eventually, college became an afterthought.

Over the next few months Connelly spent hours in his dorm room pouring over charts, analyzing trading patterns, volume, resistance levels, and any other identifiable factors he could find to help him identify a point when a stock was about to experience a bullish trading pattern.

Connelly was convinced that that winning stocks must have similarities, and that if those similarities could be discovered, it would be the key to identifying breakout stocks before they happen.

"I felt certain that I could create a strategy that could identify a breakout stock, before it began to rally. There had to be a signal, something that could be used as an identifier to 'red-flag' a stock that was about to see a major move."

Connelly eventually discovered 4 key variables that he believed was the secret to identifying a breakthrough stock. To this day Connelly has not released these variables to the public.

"I've been offered a lot of money to sell my strategy, but that's not going to happen. I want everyone to have the opportunity to profit from my strategy, not just someone who will pay millions for it, and keep it all to themselves."

What Connelly is willing to share with the public, is how identifying the Psychological Support Level (PSL) of a given stock, is the key to his method being so successful.

"While the 4 variables I discovered are still a closely guarded secret, what's not a secret is how PSL can be catalyst to finding breakout stocks. It is the 'match' that lights the fire." Connelly continues, "Most people don't understand how incredibly important PSL is, in discovering under-valued stocks that are about to skyrocket."

Psychological Support Level is nothing new in the trading world. It is the activity of human behavior that can cause a stock to be sold at well below its actual worth. In fact, many investors believe PSL is one of the most important factors in identifying under-valued stocks. However, just discovering undervalued stocks is not enough

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"I became interested in the possibility of creating a strategy that utilized PSL to identify and predict human behavior and its influence on a winning stock," says Connelly. "I was certain if I could find a way to combine this with the 4 key variables I discovered, I could greatly outpace the overall market, and see rapid percentage gains in my portfolio."

Connelly believed that PSL was the "missing link" to creating a strategy that would maximize profits and potential gains in the market.

PSL is currently used by mathematicians to predict and determine how human behavior affects population growth, crime and even terrorism. It's called Psychometric Science, and its no longer science fiction. So Connelly posed the ultimate question.

Connelly felt confident that PSL, combined with the 4 variables he had discovered, would prove to be the missing piece of the puzzle that could help 'predict' a bullish trading pattern…. Before it Happens!

After months of trial and error, tweaking and testing his strategy; Connelly was successful in creating what would eventually become one of the most popular and wildly successful stock picking strategies in recent memory.

A strategy that when applied, could predict solid gains in the market 24 to 48 hours…before they happened.

When Connelly tested his new stock picking strategy over a period of 30 days he experienced an average gain of 28% on over 11 trades. For any other investor this would be a resounding success...

He had a better idea. Since PSL was going to be such a key factor in determining which stocks were about to move, why not implement this strategy in a place that PSL plays the biggest role in discovering winning stocks?

Because PSL plays such a huge role in the micro-cap sector, Connelly was convinced that if he switched his strategy toward micro-cap stocks, he could achieve even greater gains than he could on the big-board stocks. The Results Were Astounding

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Look, I don't want to be rude - But I'm looking for a small group of intelligent investors to be taught my stock market loophole.

So complete the 5 question quiz below. If you have what it takes - I'll see you on the other side. 

It all begins with a question - what did I do right?

Ask yourself this question and you will, more often than not, be led before a path for success inaccessible by asking "What did I do wrong?"

I am like you: I read all the books, absorbed every system of trading.

And I tried them, too. This included everything from sedate long-term value investing (Warren Buffet-style) to impulsive and fast-paced day trading.

I made money sometimes, but mostly watched as the long term stock picks lost value, then regained it, only to lose it again in a nauseating roller coaster ride.

And day trading - glued to a newswire in the hopes of swooping upon an opportunity before others do proved more difficult than I expected when interpreting news stories and trying to determine whether that story had already been "priced-into" the stock, came into play.

But about three years ago, while still in the process of feeling around for an investment strategy that offered safe, consistent, yet considerable returns, I one day happened upon something quite extraordinary.

I made money on a stock.

Ok, nothing special about that, true enough. I'd made money and lost money, and according to the amalgamation of theories offered forth by the myriad stock market gurus it was simply important to make more than you lost, right?

But as a lover of mysteries, particularly Sherlock Holmes, I decided to deviate from my typical "What did I do wrong?" approach reserved for mistakes and investigate the opposite: What did I do right this time?

So that is what I asked myself the day that I saw a stock I had purchased virtually at random climb significantly the day after I bought it.

And the answer to that question changed the way I traded stocks from then on.

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Each stock market investor has what he or she deems to be the best method for success... or in some cases, unfortunately, failure. I am no different.

If you are reading this page, then you have at least some desire to actually make money in the stock market, whether your current strategy has been "Buy and Hold", "Buy Low, Sell High" (!), or "Day Trading".

Notice I placed day trading in quotes. That is because I am now of an opinion that nowhere has a more laughable, emotionalist mentality been applied to the system of stock picking than is practiced by the majority of today's day traders. I know. I was one of them.

If you have doubts about whether yet another stock trading strategy can benefit you, then congratulations. You have all the rationality and sense you need to actually stop searching for one and begin using one that works.

If that describes you, read on. You have nothing to lose; this page is not long, it will not appropriate very much of your time. And along the way, be prepared for a discovery that will surprise you, the skeptic, most of all.

In fact, you could actually label my system Ultra-Short-Term Value Investing, though that might be a little cumbersome (and more than a little silly).

So back to that profitable stock. What company was it, you ask? Oh, I think it was Best Buy or Home Depot, honestly I don't remember. Because it doesn't matter.

The conditions that made that stock ripe for buying then may or may not exist any more, anyway. The important thing to ask was a new mental query in my head that was formulated something like this:

Now, mind you, that is the plainly drawn anecdotal version of a thought process that led to much research, that in turn led to the following answer: Yes

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I swear, I’ve never seen anything like this. I only wish I could take credit for it. To tell the truth, I wouldn’t have rediscovered this myself except for one day when I had stumbled upon an old book named “How I Made 2 Million Dollars In the Stock Market.”

You may have read this book or even heard the intriguing story about a young ballroom dancer name Nicolas Darvas who traded $25,000 into 2 million dollars within just 18 months by using the stock market. In today’s terms that would be worth well over 20 million!

His story was so amazing, on May 1959, the Time Magazine devoted almost a full page in its business section to the extraordinary stock market story. But here’s the kicker, Darvas remarked it wasn’t so much how much money he made that surprised him but rather the ease with which he made it. Understandably, the deeper I began to dig into his story, the more fascinated I became and the more fascinated I became, the deeper I began to dig. I became obsessed with the famed Darvas box trading method.

Nicolas Daravs

I read everything I could find on Darvas; books, reports, interviews, white papers and I even found a rare tape set that revealed some tremendous insights. Through hundreds of man hours work, I began to piece together the original Daravs trading method few have ever seen.
What I found most revealing was the fact that when comparing Darvas’ system to many other trading systems it’s clear why most trader’s lose money. In short, there is a “fatal flaw” built right into the design of almost every other trading systems’ entry and exit rules.
Because of this flaw no one (not even the top pros) have been able to rely 100% on their trading systems. In fact, until now much of a trader’s success has been the result of nothing except a raging bull market. It’s true, “all boats float on a rising tide.”
The fatal flaw.

99% of trading systems will give you too many false signals… they’re just not reliable. The trader is whipsawed in and out of trades and the only person who ends up making any money is your broker.
Traders, even the best of them, have had trouble with their entries and exits ever since people first began speculating on the stock market.
Now at last the problem is solved.
It took Darvas a lifetime of research, over $450,000 and a near fatal accident before he discovered a trading system so reliable I worry about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) making it illegal.

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Like most other trading systems it has its entry and exit rules clearly defined… but the difference isn’t in each of these components… it’s in how to all works together! Shockingly, to this day, I am yet to find another trader correctly applying the Darvas box method, as Darvas would have traded it himself.

Why am I sharing these secrets?
Understandably, you may be a little skeptical and I don’t blame you. If I were you I would be thinking, “if this trading system is so fantastic why would he be sharing it with anyone?”
Well, over the past 3 years I have been quietly extracting huge profits from the market, and NOT sharing my results with anyone. Looking back I now realize I had fallen into a self limiting mindset by keeping these trading secrets to myself… I mean, these secrets weren’t even mine to begin with.
It has always been a core belief of mine that the world is abundant and that there is more than enough for everyone. Sadly, over recent years I had forgotten these fundamental truths and this has taken its toll in other areas of my life – it’s funny how the universe works.
I won’t bore you with the details, but suffice to say…

I am setting things right.
I have decided to create a unique training product that shows the individual trader — from beginner to pro — how to identify stocks ready for a significant market price move.
I wanted to create a simple (yet comprehensive) step-by-step "system" that would allow ANY trader, at ANY level, to learn how to use the Darvas box method properly, quickly and effectively

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The approach I have taken in my trading course is to debunk what most others peddle as "secrets" and disclose what the activity of swing trading is all about.  I don't offer you exaggerated promises, I provide swing trading strategies and methods that work for me as well as other traders and even more importantly, I explain "WHY" they work and why you must trade within your own trading comfort zone.  I am so confident that I can teach you to trade, I guarantee positive results if you are willing to learn and apply my methods. At the end of the day you must come to realize that nobody will ever manage your money better than you!  You won't find hard selling tactics, made-up testimonials, or wild earnings statements here but you will find that this is one of the most useful courses you will ever encounter for furthering your trading education. To prove it to yourself, please read the rest of the information on this site and don't forget to download the free chapters.

it's one point of profit in an option which equals $100 profit on 1 contract or $1,000 profit on 10 contracts... So 639.40 profit points on 10 contracts per trade = $639,400 profit.

From: The Trading Desk of Chris Kunnundro with Tony Vachelli