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

THE MIRACLE OF 
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
One of the great turning points in my life came when, as a young
man in my early twenties, I discovered the miracle of personal de-
velopment. My life has never been the same. I learned that through
personal development you can indeed pull yourself up by your own
bootstraps. I learned that, by learning what you need to learn to
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achieve the goals you have set for yourself, there are virtually no
limits on what you can do, have, or be.
The truth is that 
the future belongs to the competent
.You could lose
all of your money tomorrow, but as long as you still had your ability
to think and reason, you could make it all back and more besides.
The future belongs to those who are better informed. The future
belongs not to those who 
have more
versus those who 
have less
, but
to those who 
know more
versus those who 
know less
.
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