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

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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a power you can develop through practice. It can make you the
master of a situation that might otherwise cause you to become up-
set and angry.
One of the kindest things you can do to help others is to encour-
age them to stand back from a problem situation and be objective
about it. Encourage them to view the difficulty as if it was happen-
ing to someone else. Ask them what advice they would give to an-
other person who was facing this same problem. By detaching from
the emotionally charged situation, you and others will become
much more capable of dealing with it effectively.
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