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

MULTIPLY YOUR POWERS
You can get even greater benefit from this five-step process for
achieving your goals by using special techniques in response to the
things that happen to you each day.
First of all, no matter what happens,
look for the good
in every sit-
uation. Seek the valuable lesson. Look for what you can gain from
any temporary setback or obstacle.
Napoleon Hill studied and interviewed successful men and
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women for 25 years. He found that they had one characteristic in
common. Each of them had developed the habit of continually
looking into every difficulty for the seed of an equal or greater ben-
efit or advantage. They constantly looked for the silver lining of even
their darkest cloud.
When you are looking for something good to come out of every
problem situation, you will respond to difficulties in a more posi-
tive, creative, and constructive way.You will be more optimistic and
confident. If you think that you are going to benefit from everything
that happens to you, you will develop the attitude of the possibility
thinker. As a result, no matter what happens, you will almost always
find something good that you can turn to your benefit or advantage.
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