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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ACTION EXERCISES
1.
Make a list of 10 people whom it would be helpful for you to
know. Write each of them a letter congratulating them on some-
thing they have just done.
2.
Select three people with whom you can form a business/career
type of mastermind group. Invite them to meet with you weekly
for breakfast or lunch.
3.
Join at least one association that holds regular meetings in your
community and begin attending every one. Volunteer to serve on
one of the committees, and get involved.
4.
Examine each of the people with whom you regularly associate,
in business or socially. Are these the right people for you to have
as members of your reference group?
5.
Develop a personal development plan to prepare yourself to be-
come the kind of person that you would like to meet and spend
time with. Take control of your own future.
6.
Take a Dale Carnegie course in public speaking, or join a chap-
ter of Toastmasters International. Learn to speak on your feet.
7.
Resist relationship entropy; keep in regular touch with the most
important people in your personal and business life. Call or visit
someone today.