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

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FACE THE FACTS
One of the most important parts of changing your thinking is the
development of the quality of 
courage
. I will discuss this subject in
greater detail later, in Chapter 12. For the moment, in terms of do-
ing what you love to do, you need courage to face the fact that, right
now, you might not be in the right job, place, or relationship for
you.You may be on the wrong path.
Most people back into their jobs and their careers, and even
their relationships, like backing up their car and hitting some-
thing, and then getting out to see what it was. They do not have
clear goals, so they accept whatever happens to them. They take
the job that is offered to them at the time they are starting work
or making the transition from one job to another. They do the
work that is assigned to them. They allow their boss to determine
their career path.
Their entire work lives soon become organized around the ex-
pectations of the people who sign their paychecks. If they are not
careful, years will go by and they will completely lose sight of the
child in them who started off in life with hopes and dreams, enter-
ing a world of untapped possibilities and potentialities.
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