Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement by Brian Tracy Page B

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    Are you in earnest? Seek this very minute, Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
    Only engage and the mind grows heated.
    Begin and then the task will be completed.
    ACTION EXERCISES
    1. What one great goal would you set for yourself if you were absolutely guaranteed success?
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    Make out a “dream list”; write down everything you would like to have in your life someday, exactly as if you had no limitations.
    3. Imagine your perfect lifestyle; if you were financially independent and you could live any way and anywhere you wanted, what would you change?
    4. Make a list of 10 goals you would like to accomplish in the next year. From that list, select the one goal that would have the greatest positive impact on your life if you could achieve it right now.
    5. Write your most important goal on a separate piece of paper.
    Make it measurable and set a deadline for its accomplishment.
    6. Make a written plan to achieve this one goal. Write out a list of everything you can think of that you will have to do to accomplish it.
    7. Take action on your plan immediately. Once you have started, discipline yourself to do something every day that moves you toward that goal. Never miss a day until you have achieved it.

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    Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
    —Claude M. Bristol
    We have passed from a world based on material limitations into a world that is determined by mental concepts. We have moved from the age of things into the “Psychozoic Age,” the age of the mind .
    Wealth and opportunities are contained more in the person you are and the way you think than in the assets you have acquired in life so far. Your future lies more in your ability to apply your mind and intelligence to your work and your life than it does in your current job or situation.
    Because health, wealth, and happiness are essentially mental, there are very few limits on how much of them you can acquire for yourself. In this chapter, and in subsequent chapters, you will learn many of the simple, practical, proven methods, techniques, and strategies used by high-achieving men and women in every field to accomplish far more than they, or the people around them, ever dreamed possible.You will learn how to break the bonds of limited, conventional thinking, expanding your desires and ambitions so dramatically that you will be able accomplish any goal that you could ever set for yourself.
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    ■ THREE MAJOR FORCES
    There are three major forces reverberating through our world today, transforming everything they touch and creating unlimited opportunities for the creative minority. These three forces are the incredible growth in information , technology , and competition .
    ➤ Information and Knowledge Explosion The information revolution, combined with the speed of computer-ized information processing, the Internet, and wireless communications, is enabling knowledge in every field to double every two or three years. Fully 90 percent of all the thinkers, inventors, engineers, scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, and creators of all kinds who ever existed are living and working today. The results of their efforts are becoming almost instantaneously available to each other, thereby doubling and tripling their outputs.
    ➤ Technological Advances
    The explosion in technology and high-speed computers is literally breathtaking. Today, you can e-mail a message around the world to dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people simultaneously, in a matter of seconds, at a cost of pennies. The