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

Dream Big Dreams
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YOU ARE A MASTERPIECE
There are many parallels between yourself and the 
David
. You are
very much like a great masterpiece enclosed in marble as well. But
the marble that envelops you, and most other people, is the marble
of small, limited thinking and excessive worry about the possibili-
ties of loss or failure, rather than an excited anticipation of the re-
wards of success and achievement.
To realize your full potential, your greatest need is to break out
of your limited thinking by dreaming big dreams and imagining un-
limited possibilities.You need to remove all the negative beliefs that
hold you back from becoming all you are capable of becoming.
But remember, even after the 
David
had been released from the
marble, it took Michelangelo two solid years of sanding and polish-
ing to turn it into a masterpiece. In the same way, you also have to
work on yourself, sanding and polishing, learning and practicing,
for days, weeks, months, and even years, to develop and bring out
all the talents and abilities that lie deep inside of you.
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