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

Commit to Excellence
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If you are at all unsure about your area of natural talent and
ability, ask someone who knows you well what he or she thinks
your ideal line of work would be. The people who know you 
and care about you will often give you ideas and insights that
change your whole life. Often these insights will reveal to you
your heart’s desire.
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YOUR HEART’S DESIRE
Your heart’s desire is that one special thing that you were put on
this earth to do. No one else can do it in the same way that you can.
It is something that may have been calling to you for many years,
like the sound of distant music. It is something that has interested
you and attracted you since you were young.
Perhaps you have never told anyone about it. Perhaps, deep in
your heart, you were afraid of the enormous changes you would
have to make to pursue your heart’s desire. But the fact is that you
will never be truly happy or satisfied until you let yourself go and
throw your whole heart into whatever it is.
Eric Butterworth wrote in his book 
Discover the Power within
You 
(Harper & Row, 1968), “You are not what you
are
; you are
what you 
can be
.”
Imagine! You are not what you are, but rather,
you are what you
can be
when you discover and develop your natural talents and abil-
ities to the full.
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