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

EXTRAPOLATE FROM THE PRESENT
This ability, to think through every major situation in your life in
advance, is a way of thinking that you can learn with practice. The
better you become at anticipating future events based on current
facts, the better your life will be. You will be able to minimize re-
versals and maximize opportunities. Thinking this way will give
you an edge over others who simply react and respond to what-
ever happens.
Create Your Own Future
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If you work for a company, you should be thinking through the
worst possible things that could happen in the next six months to
a year that could affect your job and your security. If you own the
company, you should identify the worst possible things that could
affect the survival and health of your enterprise. You and your
spouse should discuss possible problems and difficulties that
might occur in your family life, and then make plans to guard
against them.
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