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

Decide to Become Rich
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over your expenses, and think long-term about your financial life,
you will eventually become a millionaire. It is not a matter of luck.
It is just a matter of probabilities.
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PROBABILITIES ARE EVERYTHING
Imagine you are an inexperienced dart thrower, slightly inebriated,
in a darkened room, standing some distance from the dartboard.
Even under these conditions, if you throw enough darts in the di-
rection of the dartboard, you would eventually hit it. And if you
continued to throw darts, almost in spite of yourself you would be-
come more accurate. As a result, by the law of probabilities, you
would eventually hit a bull’s-eye.
This metaphor explains why people who start off with high
levels of desire and determination ultimately succeed. They just
keep trying. And by the law of probabilities, they finally win. It is
not luck. They create their own luck by what they do, or what they
fail to do.
Now, imagine the conditions are different. Imagine that you are
a skilled dart thrower, and that you practice every day to get better.
In addition, you are fully rested, clear-headed, and completely pre-
pared. The lights in the room are bright and you stand at a reason-
able distance from the dartboard. Under these conditions, all of
which are under your control, the time it would take you to hit a
bull’s-eye would be greatly reduced. And of course, when you do hit
a bull’s-eye, everyone would tell you how “lucky” you were. But you
made your own luck.
Throughout your life, you must be constantly thinking about
all the things you can do, in every area, to increase the proba-
bilities that you will be successful in achieving your goals. You
should leave nothing to chance. You should refuse to wish or
hope, or trust to luck.You must take control of your situation.You
are responsible.
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