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

IMAGINE YOUR PERFECT FUTURE
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to creating a wonderful life is “self-
limiting beliefs.” Everyone has them, and some people have so many
of them that they are almost paralyzed when it comes to taking action.
A self-limiting belief is an idea you have that you are limited in
some way, in terms of time, talent, intelligence, money, ability, or
opportunity. As a result of these beliefs, most of which are probably
not true, you hold yourself back from taking the steps necessary to
create the kind of life you really desire.
The way you free yourself from these negative brakes on your
potential is to change your thinking about who you are and what is
truly possible for you. You put aside any thought of limitation and
begin to idealize and imagine the kind of life that you want to have
a week, a month, a year, and five years from now, as if anything
was possible.
In
idealization
, you consider each of the key areas of your life
and imagine what each would look like if that area of your life were
exactly as you would want it to be, in every respect.
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