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1 Change your thinking , Change your LifeChange your thinking , Change your LifeBy Brian Tracy; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003 When you read this book, you will unlock your full potential for success and achievement. Brian Tracy shares with you time-tested techniques that you can use to take complete control over your life . Here you will learn to program and reprogram your self-concept so that you will be able to positively and effectively empower book will take you to a journey of self-assessment towards positive Change . Espousing the principle that you become what you think about most of the time, the author encourages you to take a closer look at your inner-self so you can seek improvement and channel the changes to achieve a more satisfying and meaningful life . Truly, there are no limits to what you can achieve. When you commit yourself to excellence and never give up, you will achieve the desires of your heart.

2 BOOK OF THE WEEK:BOOK OF THE WEEK:INSIDE THIS SUMMARY:INSIDE THIS SUMMARY:read the summaryread the summaryPublished by , 3001-91, 11010 NW 30th St., Suite 104, Miami, Florida 33172 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this summary may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior notice of The Big Idea Change your thinking Change your life Dream Big Dreams Decide to Become Rich Take Charge of your life Commit to Excellence Put People First Think like a Genius Unleash your Mental Powers Supercharge your thinking Create your Own Future Live a Great life How to Unlock your Full Potential for Success and Achievement2 of 82 of 8 Chapter 1: Change your ThinkingSelf-ConceptEach person develops a bundle of beliefs regarding oneself, starting at birth. Self-concept then becomes the master program of your subconscious.

3 It determines what you think, feel, say and do. This also means that changes in your outer life must first begin with a Change in your Impressions LastBy the age of three, a child's belief would have been locked in. Those locked-in beliefs become a fundamental part of the way you view yourself in relation to your world. If your parents raised you with overflowing encouragement, love and support, you will grow up with a belief that you are a good and valuable are Born UnafraidA child is born with no fears. All fears are taught to the child in the process of growing up including the two major fears adults develop: the fear of failure or loss and fear of criticism or rejection. The former is reinforced if you are continually criticized and punished when you try something new and different. The latter is learned in early childhood when parents express disapproval when you do something they don't like or don't do something that they expect.

4 As a result of them being displeased, they become angry and withdraw the love and approval that you need as a your BeliefsAvoid having self-limiting beliefs of any kind. Self-limiting beliefs cause you to feel limited or deficient in a particular area. They are seldom true but if you accept them as valid estimates of your ability, they become true for unlock your potentials, you need to challenge your self-limiting beliefs. Begin this process by imagining that, whatever your self-limiting beliefs are, they are completely untrue. Imagine that you have no limitations. You could achieve anything you want in life . Imagine that your potential is unlimited. Chapter 1: Change your ThinkingControl your Inner DialogueJust as you become what you think about, you also become what you say to yourself. The most powerful words you can repeat to yourself, especially if you are feeling uneasy or tense are the words, I like myself!

5 I like myself! I like myself! Those words are so powerful and positive that they are immediately accepted by your subconscious mind as a command. You will notice that your body language will improve. your face becomes more positive and cheerful and you become warmer and friendlierTalk to Yourself PositivelyYour self-talk, your inner dialogue, determines 95 percent of your emotions. When you talk to yourself, your subconscious mind accepts these words as commands and as a result your behavior, self-image, and body language changes to fit a pattern consistent with those words. You must refuse to say anything about yourself that you do not sincerely desire to be true because you deserve the best, you deserve to be your ThoughtsPositive thoughts empower you and make you feel stronger and confident. Negative thoughts on the other hand disempower you. Whenever you think or say something negative, you give your power to become a better person away.

6 Between positive and negative thoughts, which one will you choose?The Law of Substitution says, your mind can hold only one thought at a time, positive or negative. You can substitute a positive thought for a negative thought whenever you choose. Deliberately think about something positive to cancel out negative and unhappy your Negative EmotionsNegative emotions have all been learned Chapter 2: Change your LifeChapter 2: Change your LifeChange your thinking , Change your life by Brian TracyChange your thinking , Change your life by Brian Tracy3 of 83 of 8 Author: Brian TracyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Date of Publication: 2003 ISBN : 0-471-44858-3No. of Pages: 270 pagesABOUT THE BOOK:ABOUT THE BOOK:beginning in childhood. The good news is what has been learned can be unlearned. Negative emotions exist only because you give it life ; you continually think of things that make you angry or unhappy.

7 You can Change it by applying the Law of Emotion: A stronger emotion will dominate and override a weaker emotion, and whichever emotion you concentrate on grows and becomes stronger. If you don't feed your negative emotions, it will die away JustifyingJustification is what you do when you rationalize or create a reason for your anger and unhappiness. You keep yourself in a cycle of how badly you were treated or how dreadfully the other person behaved by talking about it all the time. You act as if you are entitled to your of reasons not to justify your negative emotions because they do you no good. Negative emotions simply undermine your happiness and self-confidence, making you weaker and less effective in other areas of your 't Take it PersonallyIdentification or attachment occurs when you take something personally or when you become attached to a person or thing. When you become so emotionally involved in a person, thing or situation, it affects your emotions and reasons in a negative need to separate yourself emotionally from a situation, this process is called disidentification.

8 You can practice detachment from any person or situation that makes you feel angry or upset. This does not mean however that you need to passively accept anything that happens to you. Instead, this process encourages you to keep your mind and emotions under control. Use your mind to objectively assess the situation and then make better decisions to resolve Opinions of OthersInward considering occurs when you become overly concerned with the way people are treating you. You feel that all their actions are an attack on your personality or character. However, this is seldom the case as 99 percent of the time, people are wrapped up in their own thoughts about themselves. Only one percent of their emotional energy do they make available to everyone else in the world, including your Own SailsThe author suggests a rule he has learned from experience: Never do or refrain from doing something because you are concerned about what people might think about you.

9 The fact is that nobody is even thinking about you at all. You need to plan accordingly because you are in charge of your key life decisions. You can take the opinions of others into consideration, but you have to make your own Success Requires Long, Hard WorkWhen Michelangelo was commissioned by the Medicis to create a statue for the main square in Florence, it took him two years to find a slab of marble from which he would carve his masterpiece. It also took him two solid years of work to create the rough outline of the statue and an additional two years were spent polishing and sanding before the work was complete. When it Chapter 3: Dream Big DreamsChapter 3: Dream Big DreamsChange your thinking , Change your life by Brian TracyChange your thinking , Change your life by Brian Tracy4 of 84 of 8was unveiled, the crowd was amazed at the beauty of the statue. When Michelangelo was asked how he was able to create his masterpiece, he said that he saw the David complete and perfect in the marble and all he did was to remove everything that was not the are a MasterpieceYou are a like a great masterpiece enclosed in a marble but the marble that covers you is the marble of small, limited thinking and excessive worry about loss or failure.

10 To realize your full potential you need to break out from the confines of limited thinking . You need to remove all negative beliefs that hold you back from becoming a true Big DreamsVisualize your goals with as much vividness and clarity as possible. Visualize your goals intensely and create within yourself that same feeling that you would have if you had already achieved your goals. Replay a picture of your goal frequently as if you had realized it Seven Steps to Achieving any exactly what you down your willing to pay the a detailed action on your something every give upMillions of MillionairesThere are more than five million millionaires today in the US. Most of them are self-made. They are men and women who started with little or nothing, often broke or deeply in debt, who gradually accumulated enough money on their way to becoming financially independent. Remember that what they have done, you can do as Rid of the MythsDispel the myths in your mind if you want to improve your chances of success.