LIFE IS NOT AN EITHER/OR PROPOSITION
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To live is to change. Life is distinguished from nonlife by its ability to respond to what is around it. So as long as you are alive in this world, you will be changing. That fact you cannot control
What you CAN control is this:HOW you change and the DIRECTION IN WHICH in which you change.
If you do not control and direct your own life, the changes that happen to you will be dictated by others with stronger with stronger goal-commitments than yours, or by random events, even things like advertising.
Your own real wishes may not get considered at all. by simple inattention to your own hopes for the future, you will end up less happy than you have a right to be, less productive than you want to be, less well-off than you hight hope to be, spiritually, emotionally, professionally, or financially.
And if that is where you let yourself drif, how can life be any different or better for the people who depend on you, whose own fate is bound up in yours by firth or by choice?
Life is not an either/or proposition. You are not limited to yes/no choices. You can ask for things that no one has offered yet. The abundance of life is such that many times your choices can be both/and. The limits of our worlds exist only in our hearts. That is why it is important for you to asset control and start on the Positive pathway today.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Don’t wait any longer for one who once loved you to return, or for a divorce to be final, or for the right person to come along before you take control of your life. Start Positive Living today and attract more positive, less punishing people into your life.
Don’t wait until you’ve got your weight exactly where you want it or all your bad habits neatly under control. Start Positive things first, and you’ll learn to handle stress in ways that jolt the body less.
Don’t wait to see how the new job or new boss turns out. Don’t wait and worry about who gets the next promotion or raise. Start Positive Living as soon as you can, and the best jobs and raises in the future may be yours. (If you even want to keep working at the same old place, once you discover you DO have control of your life.
Don’t wait until you are eligible for Social Security or early retirement to receive Positive Thinking’s benefits. You’ll find no longer waiting period before its good influences are felt in your life......once you start. And the payoffs are worthwhile, no matter how long you live.
And that’s an important point. There is no ideal age to begin. Only now. For anyone who can read these words, it is hard to be too old or too young to seek the path to excellence along the Positive Thinker’s way. Life brings its own reward, and it is possible for most of us to seek a more excellent reward, through what follows in this book, which owes a debt to many who have gone before.
This book is NOT a recipe for burnout. It does not prescribe burdensome behaviors that tax normal people trying to live normal lives. It teaches exciting, logical principles that help change the polarity of you living so hew and better things can come to you.
There is no good reason to wait any longer. You already have everything you need---inside you---to start your move toward a happier, higher achievement future. You don’t need authority from an angel or an authentic million-dollar lottery ticket to succeed. (Quite the opposite. Lotteries’ main customers are people who feel they have lost control over their lives. They dope for random magic to zap them back in control.) Life does not work that way.
All you really need for this moment is to acknowledge that something is not working out the way you are now headed. Then turn to the next chapter to see how other have worked out the secrets of Positive Thinkers’ success to pass on to you today.