Make It Happen (Paperback)

What do you want out of your one and only life? This is not your typical self-help guide to success. Beyond simply writing an easy-to-read inspirational book on how to achieve success, author and entrepreneur Merlyn Vandervort knows that success is built on experience, which undoubtedly also includes setbacks and challenges outside your control.

Make it Happen! offers readers ten rules for achieving a successful life and business. Beginning with the book’s title, the author points out that success begins with action: “If you want to be lucky in life; always be prepared, and recognize the opportunities when they are presented to you; and take advantage of them!”

Woven in among the ten practical rules for succeeding in life, the author provides stories from his personal experience, along with other entrepreneurs’ experiences, to exemplify what not to do as well as what to do.

If you only take away one really good thought or idea from this book that improves your life or your business; it will surely be worth the read. If this book inspires you to set your life on course for the destiny of your choosing; it may well be the most important book you ever read.

Having lost tens of millions of dollars in Great Recession of 2008, Vandervort knows not only how to create that kind of success, but also how to get back up again when the world and economic adversity knocks you down.

Merlyn Vandervort is the kind of businessman you want to take advice from. A successful business entrepreneur for over twenty-five years, he began his career by rebuilding communities all over the country after natural disasters, as a general contractor and developer. He also has extensive experience in developing and owning multiple other businesses, including a five-star resort hotel and marina, restaurants, retail, and entertainment complexes.

Today, Vandervort is still involved in construction and development, but devotes much of his time using his experiences and success to pay it forward to fellow business owners and entrepreneurs; as a consultant and certified professional business coach, as well as an author and motivational speaker, to advise others on how they, too, can be successful.

His achievements in business, and in life, led Vandervort to write Make it Happen!, which offers readers ten rules on how to achieve success in both life and business.