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

ACTION EXERCISES
1.
Resolve that you will bounce rather than break. Examine your
biggest disappointment in life right now and determine how you
can learn or benefit from it.
2.
Identify the three worst things that could happen to you in the
months ahead. What is your plan to avoid or minimize their pos-
sible negative effects?
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3.
Select your biggest worry or problem right now and determine
how you can learn and grow from this difficulty. What is the
most important lesson that it contains?
4.
Practice the Edison approach to life. Calmly accept that every
temporary setback is merely a way of identifying a way that does
not work. Therefore, it is a success.
5.
No matter what happens, think about your goals and what you
can do right now to achieve them. Get busy.
6.
Identify the trends in your business. Which way is the market go-
ing? If things continue the way they are today, what decisions or
changes will you have to make?
7.
Ask two questions about your most recent important experi-
ence: What did you do right? And what would you do differently
next time? Resolve to learn every possible lesson from every set-
back or difficulty.