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

YOUR MENTAL HARD DRIVE
Everything you know about yourself, all your beliefs, are recorded
on the hard drive of your personality, in your self-concept. Your
self-concept precedes and predicts your levels of performance and
effectiveness in everything you do. Because of the law of correspon-
dence, you always behave on the outside in a manner consistent
with your self-concept on the inside. All improvement in your life
therefore begins with an improvement in your self-concept.
You have an 
overall
self-concept that is made up of all your be-
liefs about yourself and your abilities. This bundle of beliefs in-
cludes all the experiences, decisions, successes, failures, ideas,
information, emotions, and opinions of your life up to now. This
general self-concept determines how and what you think and feel
about yourself, and measures how well you are doing in general.
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