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

ACTION EXERCISES
1.
Begin today to create your own personal library of books in your
field. Read 30 to 60 minutes each day, underline, and take care-
ful notes.
2.
Examine your recent unexpected successes and failures in your
business. Could they be indicative of a trend that you can take
advantage of?
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3.
Approach each problem in your life systematically. Imagine
that the solution is exactly the 
opposite
of what you are cur-
rently doing.
4.
Continually expose your mind to new ideas and viewpoints. Ask
lots of questions. Consider the possibility that you could be wrong.
5.
Listen to educational audio programs in your car. Turn your car
into a mobile classroom, a “university on wheels.”
6.
Select an area where expertise can help you to move ahead in
your career. Develop a plan to study and learn everything you
possibly can in that area. Be the best at what you do.
7.
Associate only with positive, optimistic, creative, happy people
who are going somewhere with their lives. Get around winners if
you want to be one.