pound on it long enough, you can change it into a shape that
works better.
Such repetition often involves saying to yourself positive phrases
or sentences over and over. This method does nothing to deal with
underlying limited thinking. It is about as permanent as a nice new
paint job applied on top of the rusty surface of a car.
Your mind is like a computer. Your brain can be compared to
computer hardware, and the thoughts that occupy it can be com-
pared to computer software or programs. Computers include in-
struction manuals. The human mind does not, however. Consider
this book a brief instruction manual for running your mind to
your benefit.
Your computer arrived from the supplier with certain programs
and settings preinstalled. For example, the borders on the screen
were probably blue. If you hate blue and prefer green, you can
manually alter the default conditions, causing your machine to gen-
erate green borders. Similarly, your mind is preprogrammed with
unconscious beliefs that have created results (desired or not) up to
now. You will discover that many of the limiting beliefs were
adopted unwillingly or unconsciously during childhood and have
remained unquestioned ever since. This chapter shows you the
most effective way to change the unwanted default conditions of
your mind so that you are free to produce more favorable results.
How you think is everything. Life is a reflection and creation of
thinking. Thoughts cause actions, and actions cause results. Our de-
cisions, our reactions to events, our motivation, and our external
circumstances all result from our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and
emotional dynamics.
So long as you attribute your well-being to something you do
not control, you will experience pain. Thus, acknowledging that
you create your own results by virtue of your own internal thinking
process opens a door to a whole new world of satisfaction, wealth,
and accomplishment.
When you turn on your computer, you do not get access to all
of the software it contains. Most computers will not allow you to
access all the software simultaneously, and in most part of the soft-
ware remains inaccessible to users. Your mind has many similari-
ties to this. You are not aware of the specific thoughts that you use
to digest your dinner or that cause your leg to jerk when your
knee is tapped. More specifically, the thoughts that inhabit your
mind affect your success and satisfaction in all areas of your life,
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