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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lect? Where would it be, and what would it be doing? If your fam-
ily life and your relationships could be perfect in every respect,
what would they look like? Answer these questions clearly. Write
them down.
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START WORK ON YOUR FUTURE
You begin the creation of your ideal future by making up your
dream list.You write down everything that you would want to be, do
and have, exactly as if you had no limitations at all. You make up
your list as if you were absolutely guaranteed of success. Then you
can begin refining your list, step by step to develop a detailed blue-
print for your life.
Henry David Thoreau once wrote,
“Have you built your castles in
the air? Good, that’s where they should be built. Now, go to work and
build foundations under them.”
Once you have broken free from your
limited thinking, like a balloon casting loose its moorings and rising
high into the sky, you can begin to turn your dreams and fantasies
into concrete practical goals with specific plans of action.
Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplish-
ment is the “master skill” of success. With this master skill, there are
no limits on what you can accomplish. Putting your goals on paper
is the next step in the process.
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