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

particular area.You then describe your life and activities in this area
exactly as if they were already true today.
For example, your personal mission statement could be some-
thing like:
“I am a happy, healthy, positive person who does excellent
work, is paid extremely well, is highly respected by his customers and co-
workers, and is deeply loved by his family.”
This kind of mission statement can then serve as an organiza-
tional blueprint for your life. You can use it to make decisions by
comparing what you are about to do to see if it is consistent with
your mission. If it is not consistent with your mission, or with your
ideal image of the very best person you could possible be, you
would not do it.
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