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Change Your Mind - Change Your Life
Introduction
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Do you dream of being the CEO of a Fortune
500 company? Have you wanted to buy that new home you’ve dreamed
of for so many years? Exactly what is your idea of success?
Success is having achieved that which
you determine you will do!
YOU determine what success is for you.
It’s not based on any judgment other than your own. It’s not
dependent upon materialistic measurements. And, for some,
success is the journey, itself.
Success may be something material, such as
money or a new home. It could be something egotistical, as the
power and notoriety that comes with the position of CEO. It
could be emotional, as finding love and commitment. Success may
even be unselfish and altruistic, as seeing children in third
world countries healthy and safe. Success has no particular name
or identity. There is no one method to describe what success is,
other than the definition above. It means something different to
each individual.
All successful people, however, have one
thing in common — determination! To be a success, you must
first determine to be so. Though not always a conscious
decision, the seed that leads to action is to first determine.
Diane’s story is a great example of having a desire in the
conscious mind, and the subconscious processing it as a
determination. Diane’s love of writing began in middle school,
because her friends were writing short romance stories about
their favorite music idols. Diane thought she would give it a
try. Her stories became so popular that she began writing them
in segments. Her classmates couldn’t wait to get the next
installment. From that point, she wrote different types of
things — poetry, philosophy, and sometimes only her thoughts.
She won a few writing competitions in school, but most of her
writings were for herself. It was only a hobby. Something she
did to pass time, or a way to put her thoughts on paper. When
she entered college, she didn’t give writing a second thought.
She graduated with a dual degree in psychology and business
management. Diane worked in business for several years; then,
“fell” into the writing profession.
She thought it
just happened; but in truth, each position she held had some
writing responsibilities — first, business reports and editing
manuals, then putting together and writing a monthly newsletter
for the firm. At the job she “fell” into, she started as a
secretary, after having moved to another state. Being used to a
heavier workload, they finally gave her a small job to do for
their technical writer, who was writing an employee handbook for
the firm. Between her regular duties, Diane, who had written a
similar handbook at her previous job, filled in the gaps,
extended the contents so the handbook was complete, and gave a
draft to the technical writer for review. Her assignment was
only to lay out what he’d written. To make a long story short,
they offered her a job as a proposal writer, and then a position
as their engineering documentation coordinator, where she wrote
customized engineering manuals. Though it seemed to Diane that
she “fell” into the job of professional writing, she had
“determined” it years before while writing those short stories
in middle school. She has now been writing professionally for
over 20 years, including books and novels. When I once asked
her why she didn’t just go to school for English or Journalism,
she said she never thought about it. Her love was
psychology. She considered herself to be a halfway decent writer
and always believed she would write on some level. She didn’t
discount writing professionally; it just never crossed her mind.
So, what was
Diane’s problem? Though on a subconscious level, she had
“determined” to be a writer. Why did it take so long? Because
there was no clear goal in which ...
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