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

POSITIVE THINKING
Positive thoughts are life enhancing. They 
empower
you and make
you feel stronger and more confident. Positive thinking is not just a
motivational idea. It has measurable, constructive effects on your
personality, your health, your levels of energy, and your creativity.
The more positive and optimistic you are, the happier you will be in
every area of your life.
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Negative thoughts bring about the opposite. They 
disempower
you and make you feel weaker and less confident. Whenever you
think or say something negative, you give your power away. You
feel angry and defensive. You feel frustrated and unhappy. Over
time, negative thinking can make you physically ill, and even poi-
son your relationships.
Positive thinking leads to mental health and peak performance.
Negative thinking leads to mental illness and decreased effective-
ness. Your goal, therefore, if you want to live a wonderful life, is to
cultivate positive emotions and get rid of negative emotions.
The elimination of negative emotions is the most important sin-
gle step you can take toward health, happiness, and personal well-
being. Each time you take complete control over your thoughts and
feelings, and discipline yourself to keep them positive, the quality of
both your inner and outer lives improves. In the absence of negative
emotions, your mind automatically fills with the positive emotions
that generate feelings of happiness and fulfillment.
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