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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hours per day, and then worked only three or four hours on one day
in his office at home in the country. He ended up spending much
more time with his family and getting far more satisfaction out of
life. The best part was that both his results and his income actually
increased with this new plan.
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TURN YOUR IDEAL INTO REALITY
When you sit down and design your ideal lifestyle, you can then
compare it to what you are doing today and notice the differences.
You can then start thinking about how you could bring your 
real
or
current lifestyle closer to your 
ideal
.
When you idealize your income and your lifestyle, you develop a
vision for your life. You begin to practice a key quality of personal
leadership.You begin projecting into the future and making plans to
turn your future dreams into a current reality.
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HEALTH AND FITNESS
You should idealize about your health, as well. Imagine your health
was perfect in every way. How would you be different from today?
Exactly how much do you want to weigh, and what level of fitness
do you want to enjoy? How does that compare with where you are
today? What steps will you have to take, and what changes will you
have to make in your health habits in order to become the ideal per-
son that you desire to be personally? This description then becomes
your ideal future vision for yourself.
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THE PERSON YOU BECOME
Create an ideal future self in terms of your personal and profes-
sional development. What kind of a person do you want to be in the
future? What additional knowledge and skills do you want to ac-
quire? In what areas would you like to become absolutely excellent?
What subjects would you like to master? What do you need to learn
to move to the top of your field? What is your growth plan to get
from where you are to where you want to go?
Supercharge Your Thinking
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YOUR MISSION STATEMENT
When you conduct personal strategic planning for yourself, you al-
ways begin with a 
mission statement
. This is clear definition of exactly
what you want to be and accomplish at some future date. To de-
velop your mission statement, you project forward and imagine that
you have been completely successful in achieving all your goals in a