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

REINTERPRET EVENTS DIFFERENTLY
The author and speaker Wayne Dyer says, “It’s never too late to
have a happy childhood.” He means that at any time you can rein-
terpret the unhappy events of your early life in a positive way. You
can practice the Law of Substitution and look into those negative
experiences for something good, and think about that instead.
You can focus on how your unhappy experiences have made you a
better, wiser person. You can actually be grateful to people who
have hurt you in the past because they have made you so much
stronger in the present. And in any case, it could not have hap-
pened otherwise.
Your parents had no experience with raising children. In addi-
tion, they were a product of the way they were raised. Like all hu-
mans, they came to parenting with their problems and weaknesses,
just as you have today. Nonetheless, they did the best they could