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

Create Your Own Future
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about what happened and how you could do better. Ask yourself, if
you had to do it over again, how would you 
change
or
improve
your
performance or behavior in that situation? What would you do more
of or less of?
Be sure to write down your answers. This ensures that you cap-
ture them before you forget. Each time you try something new or
different, immediately sit down with a pad of paper and answer
those two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do
differently?” Both of these questions are positive and they both re-
quire positive responses.Your answers prepare you, consciously and
unconsciously, to do even better next time. Both sets of answers
keep you focused on improvement rather than regret.
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