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

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mediate impact on how you think and feel about yourself. They in-
stantly boost your self-esteem and self-confidence. To remain opti-
mistic, you must be continually talking to yourself in terms of the
way you 
want to be
rather than the way things are at the moment.
In neurolinguistic programming, the way that you talk to your-
self about what is happening to you is called your “interpretive
style.” The way you interpret things is a key part of changing your
thinking. The question is always whether you interpret things that
are happening around you in a positive or negative way. Remember,
the optimist sees the glass as half full while the pessimist sees the
glass as half empty. Choose to be an optimist.
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