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

PREPARE IN ADVANCE
One of the best ways to change your thinking, and your life, is to
prepare for disappointment in advance. Set yourself up to bounce
back quickly by practicing mental prepreparation.
Mental prepreparation enables you to prepare internally for the
inevitable disappointments of life and work, even though you do not
know what they are or when they will come. This is one of the most
powerful of all thinking techniques that you can use to gain and
keep control of your emotions, assuring that they are primarily pos-
itive and constructive, no matter what happens.
In mental prepreparation, you begin with the premise that you
are going to face all kinds of problems and difficulties when you de-
cide to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. In fact, if you set a
big, challenging goal for yourself, one that forces you out of your