lustrates the unlimited creative power you are using to create and
maintain these unpleasant conditions.
Most of us experience periods of lack, depression, and upset.
For some, these periods last a few minutes; for others, decades.
There is a definite strategy that produces these unfavorable results.
This counterproductive strategy is described in general terms, so
that you can choose a different course and different results. Gain-
ing awareness of the precise nature of your personal unconscious
negative thinking is an extremely valuable resource because you
can change what you know about and cannot change what you
don’t know about.
The strategy for poverty, depression, and upset is easy to remem-
ber because each component begins with the letter p. In summary,
take everything that happens personally and then consider it to be
pervasive and permanent.
TAKE IT PERSONALLY
Take everything that happens personally. At the extreme, conclude
that everything happens is an indictment of you. Assume that peo-
ple who reject you have it in for you. See the world and the people
in it as hostile or, at least, uncaring. Blame your condition on exter-
nal circumstances. Blame puts you at effect of external circum-
stances and renders you helpless. Compare yourself to others
frequently and unfavorably. Complain about the people around
you to anyone who listens and to some who don’t. Rely on this com-
plaining as a temporary respite from misery and as an opportunity
to justify unhappiness or lack of accomplishment. Stay with work
you don’t like and expect the money to make up for the dissatisfac-
tion. Assume it is your responsibility to fix things that are beyond
your control, including the feelings of others. Avoid asking for what
you want.
CONSIDER IT PERVASIVE
Allow the negative attitude created by taking things personally to
pervade other areas of your life. For example, allow setbacks at
work to affect your close relationships and allow upsets in your
family to detract from your performance at work. Increase the per-
vasiveness even more by listening to country western music or rap,
so that your negative thinking gains rhythm and melody, thus be-
coming easier to remember. Then seek to reenforce this thinking
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