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

PROJECT FORWARD 
AND THINK BACKWARD
Changing your thinking requires that you expand your ideas and
imagination about the person you could be, the things you could
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do, and the things that you could have. Every person who accom-
plishes anything worthwhile in life begins with a big dream or a vi-
sion of what is possible for him or her. They rise above their current
surroundings, their existing limitations and problems, and instead
they imagine themselves sometime in the future living the kind of
life they would like to live.You need to practice this way of thinking
as well.
Earlier, we talked about your 
ideal future vision
. You create this
by projecting forward five years and imagining that all of your
dreams have come true. What would your life look like if it were
ideal in every way? Where would you be? Who would be there with
you? What would you be doing? How much would you be earning?
And so on.
You then return to the present day and your current situation.
You think of specific steps you could take to capitalize on your op-
portunities and to overcome your limitations and obstacles. This is
the primary use of creative thinking. It is to solve your problems
and trigger mental breakthroughs that you can use to move faster
toward achieving the goals that are most important to you.
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