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

Live A Great Life
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Be Patient
You need what is called “courageous patience.” This is a special
kind of courage that is required after you have launched toward
your goal but you have not yet seen any results. It is amazing how
many people break and run in that zone between when they begin
and when they start to see a payoff. Their doubts and fears over-
whelm them.
But this is not for you. Once you have started toward your goal,
resolve to remain calm and confident until you start to get results.
Be patient and persistent, no matter what happens in the short term.
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Persist Longer
The final courage you need is the courage to persist longer than
anyone else. Persistence is the quality that will ultimately guarantee
your success. Your willingness to persist in the face of every adver-
sity can be your greatest asset. It can be the one factor that guaran-
tees your success.
If you refuse to quit, you must ultimately succeed. Just as in
baseball, you won’t ultimately hit a home run unless you keep on
swinging. In 30 years of studying successful people, I have discov-
ered one fact over and over. No one was ever defeated until they ac-
cepted defeat as a reality. No one can ever defeat you but yourself.
When you discipline yourself to do what you should do,
whether you feel like it or not, and you use this inner strength to
build high levels of courage and persistence within yourself, you will
become an incredibly powerful person. You will soon feel that there
is nothing that you cannot accomplish. You will eventually develop
yourself to the point where you feel completely 
unstoppable
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