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

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Summary and
Conclusions
The world is like a great mirror. It reflects back to you
what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you
are helpful, the world will prove loving, friendly, and
helpful to you. The world is what you are.
—
Thomas Dreier
The most important principle of human life is that 
you become what
you think about most of the time.
This insight is the foundation of reli-
gion, philosophy, metaphysics, psychology, and all success. Your
outer world is very much a reflection of your inner world. If you
change your thinking, you change your life.
Your biggest challenge and your greatest responsibility are to
create within yourself the 
mental equivalent
of what you want to ex-
perience on the outside. By doing this, you activate all your mental
powers, and put the forces of the universe to work on your behalf.
You take full control over your life.
Many thousands of people have been asked what they think
about most of the time. Over and over, the most successful men and
women report the same things. They think about 
what they want
and
how to get it
most of the time. Unsuccessful and unhappy people, in
contrast, think and talk about what they 
don’t
want. They think and
talk about their problems and worries, and about the people in their
lives that they don’t like. But this is not for you.
When you think and talk continuously about what you want and
how to get it, this way of thinking soon becomes a habit. When you
think and talk about what you want, you become more positive,
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purposeful, and creative. When you stay focused on where you’re
going, you become a more productive and effective person.
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