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

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result you become more constructive about how the situation can
best be resolved.You don’t allow yourself to become emotionally in-
volved in every little thing that happens to you.
Abraham Lincoln wrote,
“Most people are just about as happy as
they make up their minds to be.”
In the Foundation for Inner Peace’s
Course in Miracles
, it says,
“You give meaning to everything you see.”
Without the meaning or emotion that you attach to an event or cir-
cumstance, it has no emotional significance for you. And you can
change the meaning by controlling your thinking. You can even
eliminate its negative effect on you altogether by refusing to become
emotionally involved in a short-term setback. It is up to you.
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