How to create the life you were meant to live

This was the hard book to write.

"The Billionaire and the Backpacker" wrote itself in weeks after an ayahuasca ceremony—70,000 + words that flowed effortlessly. This book? 10,000 words that felt forced every step of the way.

I knew the principles. I could articulate them clearly. But I wasn't living them. I was teaching what I hadn't integrated, explaining a path I wasn't walking.

That's the irony: I wrote a book called "How to Create the Life You Were Meant to Live" while building the wrong life.

But the principles are sound.

Here's why this book matters despite how it was written:

When you're aligned with your signal line, creation flows. "The Billionaire and the Backpacker" proved that—80,000 words that arrived without effort. This book was the opposite. Every sentence was constructed, not channeled. Every paragraph forced, not received.

But that struggle taught me something crucial: I understood the framework precisely because I'd spent 30 years living the wrong way. I knew exactly what traps successful people in cycles of achievement without fulfillment—because I was trapped in them while writing this.

This book contains the map I wish I'd had at 36 instead of 66.

The principles aren't theory. They're hard-won understanding from three decades of doing everything right by conventional measures and feeling completely empty. I can tell you exactly:

• Why success without alignment feels hollow (I lived it)
• What keeps you chasing the next milestone hoping it will finally satisfy (I chased them all)
• How to identify genuine life-enhancing value versus distractions disguised as opportunities (I wasted years on the wrong ones)
• The specific pattern that keeps high-achievers trapped in the wrong life (I ran it for 30 years)

This book explains:

• Why conventional goal-setting keeps you trapped in cycles of temporary satisfaction
• How to recognise the "rabbits"—distractions disguised as opportunities—that pull you off course
• The difference between creating genuine value and chasing someone else's definition of success
• How to align what you do with what wants to move through you
• Practical methods for breaking free from inherited limitations

What makes this different from other self-help books:

It's not about positive thinking or manifesting or vision boards. It's about identifying the life-enhancing value you can offer others, building work around that, and creating both financial freedom and genuine fulfilment.

Not one or the other. Both.

The painful truth: I could teach this framework clearly because I'd spent 30 years proving what happens when you ignore it. Success without alignment is just expensive emptiness.

At 66, I finally stopped pretending. I'm now living what I wrote about in this book—building work from my signal line instead of forcing it. The principles work. I just needed three more decades to actually follow them.

If you're successful but empty, this framework will show you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it.

The question isn't whether these principles work—they do. The question is: will you recognize yourself in these pages and act on it now, or spend another decade building the wrong life before you're ready to change?

I waited 30 years. You don't have to.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

★★★★★

"I am 69 and been successful but after reading I realize I could have knocked the cover off the ball. The only reason I gave it 5 stars is because they don't allow to give any more." — Peter G.

★★★★★

"This book made a lot of concepts simpler. Concepts that I saw innumerous times in other self-help books. Things clicked and made sense. I immediately identified rabbits in my life and could slay them without second thought." — Vini, Brazil

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"The author Martin Cole obviously knows what he talks about in great depth. He lives and breathes the theory behind his advice and inspires and challenges at the same time." — Linda deFreyne-Groves, UK

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"If you're stuck in an environment that you do not like, read this book. It will show you how to get to the environment you would enjoy living." — Kyriacos Christophi, UK

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