Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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5
Take Charge
of Your Life
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our
doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and
active faith.
—
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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THE GREAT TRUTH
“You can learn anything you need to learn, to accomplish any goal you
can set for yourself.”
This principle offers a way for you to take com-
plete control over your future. When I was young and struggling,
failing and frustrated, this principle came along to change my life.
Generally speaking,
no one is smarter than you, and no one is better
than you.
Just because someone is 
doing
better than you doesn’t
mean that he 
is
better than you. It usually means that he has just
learned how to succeed in his particular field before you have. And
whatever someone else has done, you can probably do as well.
There are few limits.
This is not an easy rule, but it is definitely 
simple
. You, too, can
learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal you can set
for yourself.
Once I learned this idea, I was unafraid to change jobs, and even
industries. I learned how to sell advertising, investments, automo-
biles, and office supplies. I worked in real estate sales and leasing,
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and then real estate development. Then I engaged in importation
and distribution, then banking, printing, consulting, and eventually
speaking, writing, recording, and corporate training.
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