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You have much more control over your environment
than you realize. You can begin programming yourself
consciously to be more and more focused and motivated.
Get to know your control panel and learn how to push
your own buttons. The more you know about how you
operate, the easier it will be to motivate yourself.
9. Build a track record
It’s not what we dothat makes us tired—it’s what
we don’t do. The tasks we don’t complete cause the most
fatigue.
I was giving a motivational seminar to a utility com-
pany recently, and during one of the breaks a small man
who looked to be in his 60s came up to me.
“My problem,” he said, “is that I never seem to fin-
ish anything. I’m always starting things—this project
and that, but I never finish. I’m always off on to some-
thing else before anything is completed.”
He then asked whether I could give him some
affirmations that might alter his belief system. He cor-
rectly saw the problem as being one of belief. Because
he did not believe he was a good finisher, he did not
finish anything. So he wanted a magical word or phrase
to repeat to himself that would brainwash him into be-
ing different.
“Do you think affirmations are what you need?” I
asked him. “If you had to learn how to use a computer,
could you do it by sitting on your bed and repeating the
affirmations, ‘I know how to use a computer. I am great
at using computers. I am a wizard on a computer’?”
He admitted that affirmations would probably have
no effect on his ability to use a computer.
“The best way to change your belief system is to
change the truthabout you,” I said. “We believe the truth