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

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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LET IT GO
A psychiatrist with more than 25 years’ experience working with
unhappy people wrote that the two most common words he heard
in his practice were the words “if only.” It seemed that most un-
happy people are held back by some event that occurred in the past
that they cannot let go of. They are still resentful, angry, or de-
pressed over something that someone did or did not do or say. They
are angry with one or both parents, a sibling, a previous relationship
or marriage, a boss or business relationship, a failed investment or
financial mistake.
The fact is that your life will be a continuous series of problems,
difficulties, setbacks, and temporary failures. These unexpected and
unwanted reversals and disappointments are a normal, natural, and
unavoidable fact of growing up. To change your thinking and change
your life, you must make a decision to get over them and to get on
with your life, no matter what happened. Until you do, you remain a
slave to the past, which cannot be changed in any case. Make a deci-
sion today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the “if
only’s” from your life.
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