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

Change Your Thinking
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out. No matter how successful you become as the result of your
hard work, you will have a nagging fear that it will all be taken away
from you.
If you feel like an imposter, you will often feel guilty for achiev-
ing greater success than others. To escape these feelings of guilt,
many people engage in 
self-sabotage
. They eat too much, drink too
much, take dope, ignore their families, engage in unpredictable be-
haviors, and often throw their money away in extravagant living and
unwise investments. They feel deep down inside that they don’t de-
serve their success. As a result, they often drive it away.
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