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Acceptance
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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Assumptions
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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
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Attitude
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
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Belief
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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
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Bravery
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
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Change
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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
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Children
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Choice
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Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Desires
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Determination
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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Difficulty
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When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
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Dreams
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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Effort
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Enjoyment
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
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Excellence
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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Expectation
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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Expertise
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Failure
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Books by and about Denis Waitley