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Introduction:You have no personality
Personality
That each of us has a fixed personality is a myth. It
is self-limiting and it denies us our power of continu-
ous creation.
In our ongoing creation of who we are, nothing has a
greater impact on that process than the choice we make
between optimism and pessimism. There are no opti-
mistic or pessimistic personalities; there are only single,
individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
Charlie Chaplin once entered a “Charlie Chaplin
Look-alike Contest” in Monte Carlo and the judges
awarded him third place!
Personality is overrated. Who we are is up to us ev-
ery moment.
The choices we make for our thinking either moti-
vate us or they do not. And although clear visualization
of a goal is a good first step, a joyfully motivated life
demands more. To live the life you want to live, action
is required. As Shakespeare said, “Action is elo-
quence.” And as psychologist and author Dr. Nathaniel
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