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life as your frame of reference or the criterion on
which everything else is examined.
—STEPHEN R. COVEY

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 CONTENTS

VISION 3

UNDERSTANDING 15

INSTINCT 25

FOCUS 35

CREATION 47

MISSION 59

CENTER 7

WISDOM

DESTINY 93

AFFIRMATION 105
 The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led

by that vision to the greatest good.

OPRAH WINFREY

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 INTRODUCTION

In order to land your dream life, you need to make a conscious effort to visualize

it happening. However, keeping your eye on the prize takes practice. It's all about

getting rid of misconceptions about yourself, giving up emotional baggage, and

putting a new belief system into place. The premise is pretty simple. All it takes is

the desire to figure out what you want and the determination to make it happen.

In Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life, we've simplified the powerful principles

behind The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey to help you

realize your vision of the future.

There are no roadmaps to follow. No instructions. No how-tos. And no formulas

for success. Instead you'll find a collection of contemporary quotes, provocative

messages, and practical wisdom in an easy-to-read format.

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 As you turn these pages, take the words of advice to heart, mind, and soul.

Think about what you read. Ponder how and what it would take to live a more

fulfilling life. Let the wisdom inspire you to take a chance on happiness. To dream

big and to manifest your vision, inspiration, and purpose. It's just a matter of

realizing your life has significance, setting your sights on what you want, and truly

believing that you deserve it.

In essence, make it a habit to begin with the end in mind.

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HABIT 2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

Defining your mission and goals in life

 VISION

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To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your

destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand
where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 Imagining what you want

as if it already exists
opens the door to letting it happen.
-SHAKTI GAWAIN

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Start each day by seeing it the way you would want it to be.

See yourself handling every responsibility peacefully and

effectively. Trust that even when the results you desire do

not show up immediately, they will eventually show up. See

yourself moving through the day with a smile on your face

and joy in your heart.

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visualize it make a map
write it down
plan it out
clear out the baggage

look for meaning

walk the talk

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act "as iffoc us on it

pay attention
create it
affirm it
see it happen

believe and you'll achieve

ife is a mystery
to be explored,
not a problem
to be solved.
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when you set it. Just repeatedly visualize the desired results, and

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Ask yourself, "When is the right time to do this?'

Make the plunge without a safety net

other than trusting your ability.

Remind yourself that without taking the plunge,

your life will stay the same.
HAROLD R. MCALINDON
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 UNDERSTANDING

When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in

their lives, what they really want to be and to do, they become very reverent. They

start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 But now all I need in order to have a future,

istodesign a future I can manage

to get inside of.
FRANCINE JULIA CLARK

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from will
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to make them all yourself.
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 is for most of us a continuous

process of getting used to things we hadn't expected.

MARTHA LUPTON

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Hey, happiness is not settling for less, but just not

being miserable with what is. I have always lived

by the creed, "It's not the approval or accolades

or possessions that make you smile, but simply

making the left turn even though you were the

third car in the intersection." -DENNIS MILLER

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i
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and

searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness

and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
ANNAQUINDLEN

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I will tell you that there have been

nO failures in my life. I don't want

to sound like some metaphysical queen.

but there have been no failures.

There have been some

TREMENDOUS LESSONS.
OPRAH WINFREY

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 You learn something new every day. Actually you learn something old every day.

Just because you just learned it, doesn't mean it's new. Other people already
knew it. Columbus is a good example of this.
GEORGE CARLIN

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 INSTINCT

We are more in need of a vision or destination and a compass (a set of principles

or directions) and less in need of a road map. We often don't know what the
terrain ahead will be like or what we will need to go through it; much will depend

on our judgment at the time. But an inner compass will always give
us direction.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 What have people been
telling you all your life?

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 Don't bother being

Being popular and well-liked is not in your best interest. Let me be

more clear; if you behave in a manner most pleasing to most, then

you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never

been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the

truly great individual.

A highly evolved use of intuition is being able

to find meaning in symbols and synchronicities.

The more we focus on finding meaning for

ourselves in "chance occurrence," the more we

increase our intuitive powers. Deepening our

connection to our current surroundings increases

our ability to follow the guidance of our inner purpose.

ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED.

CAROL ADRIENNE
 Listen to your
INNER VOICE
It is the only one that matters.
 Contrary to the rationalists hooey that

dreams aren't real (you're just dreaming),

They convey real information, real impact,

and real emotions, and they have real

consequences if ignored.
GREGG LEVOY

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Learning to trust our intuition
is an art form, and like all

other art forms, it takes

practice to perfect.
SHAKTI GAWAIN
Everything you perceive-

everything you sense, or remember,

everything

or fed, or dreOlTI, or intlllt, in short, everything you

notice-haS meaning. Everything

LAURA DAY
 The quieter you become,

the more you can hear your ideas connect.

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 Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
OPRAH WINFREY

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 FOCUS

As we go deeply within ourselves, as we understand and realign our basic

paradigms to bring them in harmony with correct principles, we create both an

effective, empowering center and a clear lens through which we can see the world.

We can then focus that lens on how we, as unique individuals, relate to that world.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 The
world

come
doesn't
to the
clever
folks,

it comes
to the
stubborn,
obstinate,

one-idea-at-a-time
people.
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

©
Think about something that you want but you believe is

impossible to attain. Challenge your negative thinking for the

next 30 days by acting as if you've already attained it.

Prepare
to be
amazed.

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 is only by following your

deepest instinct that yoo can

lead a rich lite, and it yoo let your

fear ol conseqoence prevent yoo

from following yoor deepest

instinct then yoor life will be

safe, expedient, and thin.

KATHERINE BUTLER HATHAWAY

©
 The world asks
that we focus less on how we can coerce something to

make it conform to our designs and focus more on how

we can engage with one another, how we can enter into

the experience and then notice what comes forth. It asks

that we participate
more than plan.
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w hen we have lost ourselves, no amount

of externals will help. Spouses, friends, work-

none can supply what is missing when we are

cut off from our "internal power source." We

are missing, and the only way to remedy this
problem is to find ourselves again. Finding
ourselves takes time. It is hard work and it is
worth doing.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

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 Get Focused
1 . Give up the woulda-shoulda-coulda routine.

2. Forget the past. It won't matter next week.

3. Stop being crazy busy. It's an energy drain.

4. Take time for yourself. You deserve it.

5. Assume there's a reason for what's going on

6. Eliminate unneeded distractions.

7. Forget about what other people think.

8. Quit beating yourself up over small things.

9. Forget the no-margin-for-error mindset.

10. Breathe.

©
When you decide to explore what would make you feel happy, fulfilled,

secure, joyful, and confidently challenged, try to focus on the feeling

that you ultimately want to experience.

How do you want to feel? Keep your focus on being led to the perfect

opportunities that allow you to be happy, to be of service in attunement

with your abilities and desires, and to be well rewarded.

KEEP A JOURNAL
of your hopes, dreams, goals, and accomplishments. If your life is worth living,

it's worth writing down

 i vi n g well
is an art which can be developed.

Of course, you will need the basic talent to build upon:

they are a love of life and ability to take great pleasure

from small offerings, an assurance that the world owes

you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

MAYA ANGELOU

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 Never be defined by your circumstances.

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 CREATION

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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that lie
within us.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 Creators start
at the end.

First they have on idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this

idea is general, and sometimes it is specific. Before you can create

what you want to create, you must know what you are after, what you

want to bring into being.

— ROBERT FRITZ

48
When in doubt,

make a fool of yourself

There is a microscopically thin line

between being brilliantly creative

and acting like the most gigantic

idiot on earth. So. ..leap!

CYNTHIA HEJMEL
 The ultimate creative
act is to express what
is most authentic and
individual about you.
— EILEEN M. CLEGG

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 The Creative Thinker's
SWEET SIXTEEN
1 . Choose to live a creative life.
2. Make creativity a daily habit.
3. Capture your ideas.
4. Take intelligent risks.
5. Have fun with your ideas.
6. Be yourself.
7. Act on your creative urges.
8. Keep feeding your mind.
9. Stimulate your senses.
1 0. Create from your passion.
1 1 . Take a daily step toward your dream.
12. Have an idea-friendly place to create.
13. Keep creative resources nearby.
14. Have creative companions.
15. Learn from your mistakes.
16. Never give up.
HAROLD R. MCALINDON

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 ever
stop feeding
your brain. The first step to being creative

is to get rid of your own unwritten rules.

MARY M. BYERS

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must have your
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in the wings.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

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 IB ecause of the routines we follow, we often

forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We leave our

homes for work, acting and even believing that we will

reach our destinations with no unusual event startling

us out of our set expectations... Life is pure adventure

and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be

able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to

each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice

and admit when what we expected to happen did not

happen. We need to remember that we are created

creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as

they are needed. MAYAANGELOU

©
 If creative thought processes are blocked,

OPEN-MIND SURGERY
IS NEEDED.

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 The "what if" question begs for completion: "What if we tried...?"
DALE DAUTEN

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 MISSION

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The most effective way to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal

mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focuses on what you want to be and

to do and on the values and principles upon which being and doing are based.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 D° y°" live up to
your poteeanchtidaaly?

©
It is not possible to get all our definitions from outside and

maintain our spiritual integrity.

look to others to tell

Ud Wl i^J WC U iCf give us validity, give

us our meaning, and still have any idea of who we are. When

we look to others for our identity, we spend most of our time

and energy trying to be who they want us to be. And we are so

fearful of being found out. We truly believe that it is possible to

make others see what we want them to see, and we exhaust

ourselves in the process.

 It seems to me that we are on some mission to discover every deep-rooted
reason for being unhappy. We employ sophisticated therapies to plumb the

depths of our very psyches. The first thing it seems people have difficulty

grasping is the simple premise that life often just is not fun. Okay, I suppose

the pursuit of happiness seems ofttimes almost as tragic and futile a gesture

as the loading of the ice-making machine onto the Titanic.

DENNIS MILLER

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A personal mission isn't
AVAILABLE AT
A STORE NEAR YOU.

©
 LIFE'S DEFINING MOMENTS
1. FIND YOUR PASSION
What do you care about most? Create an overview of what
drives you and what you could do without. Allow your passion
to take more priority in your life.

2. FOLLOW THE BIG PICTORE OF YOOR LIFE

Don't waste time on things that aren't important or that
don't become part of the big picture. Allocate your time
more efficiently.

3. SPELL OUT TO YOURSELF A DREAM VERSION OF YOUR PASSION

How does it feel? What does it look like? Where would it
take you?

4. GET A MOVE ON
Don't wait until a better time to move toward what you want.
There is no better time. The time is now.

5. STAY OPEN TO CHANGES

Just because things aren't going exactly to plan doesn't mean
they are not in alignment. Trust the process.

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ay the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be at your back.
May your mission in life
feed your passion like no other.
 Most people spend their lives struggling along the same old road, wondering

whether they will ever reach their dreams. The lucky ones discover there's a

beautiful six-lane expressway just over the hill, created just for them. It's their
personal path, ready and waiting to speed them to their dreams.
CHRIS J WITTING JR

©
 HOW TO WRITE A WORKING

MISSION STATEMENT
Write down a list of things you love to do. Make a second list of positive

attributes about yourself. Start with the words "I am..." Make a third list of
things that you want most in your life. Here are some additional list ideas:

What do I keep gravitating to?

What did I like to do as a child?

If I could change anything what would it be?

What interests me most right now?
What do I like most about myself?
What fills my soul?
What can I do well?

What are my most unique traits?

Compare and contrast all your answers. Combine them in ways you never
considered. Somewhere in there is your true mission in life. Use these
words to write a personal mission statement. If the words feel flat and

unexciting, you're on the wrong track. If they overwhelm you with emotion
or excitement, you're on to something!

©
 There's always a way to find the time, and if the

mission is right, the money will be there. The issue is to

have the heart

and the courage to move ahead,
to have the courage to take one step forward and know

that will open up doors to new levels of well-being.

GREG ANDERSON
 you had to,
could you give
it all up to
realize your
mission in life

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 Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.

If you're alive, it isn't.

RICHARD BACH

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 CENTER

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a

fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other
centers in perspective.
STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 Center is a state of being.
You are centered when you are moving on purpose, without irritation or

frustration. You are centered when you are

open to discovery,
no matter what the circumstances, when you are

willing to learn and to change

based on what you learn.
JUDITH S. WARNER

©
YOUR EGO HAS LANDED
 How Centered Are You?
1 When you hear the word "center" you think of:
(a) The tallest basketball player on the team.
(b) The last word in left-of- or off-, (c) It's all about being balanced.

2. Your idea of living a balanced life is:

(a) Mixing Flintstone vitamins and Turns with Calcium, (b) Owning a satellite
dish without any sports channels, (c) Having your cake and eating it too.

3. When you listen to your intuition you hear:

(a) The chaos theory (b) Hip hop (c) Answers.

4. In order to live in harmony and balance you'd need to:

(a) Become an airy-fairy, crystal clutching, mantra humming New Age type.
(b) Supersize a value meal at your favorite Scottish restaurant.
(c) Find a path that works for you and stick with it.

5. How often do you reflect upon your vision or purpose in life?

(a) Never. My only vision is to see Elvis reappear at the local Piggly Wiggly.
(b) Rarely. I have a right to be dysfunctional and nourish my inner martyr.
(c) As often as I can. It helps me stay focused and on track.

Mostly a answers: You're just skimming the surface of life. A little more depth
would do your body good. Open your mind to the possibilities. And ditch the
negativity. Remember, you are what you think you are.

Mostly b answers: See mostly a answers.

Mostly c answers: You're on your way to living a balanced life. That doesn't
mean you follow a strict plan without ever going with the moment, however.
You're balanced enough to know it's all about learning, not about being perfect.
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 CENTERING IS

SPOKEN OF BY GREAT ATHLETES.

It can also be a barefoot run on the grass on a summer's eve,

with the wind in your face and the senses wide open... It is like a

delicate flower growing out of solid rock. Center can be a cosmic

laugh rippling out to the ends of the universe. It can simply be

relaxing in rush-hour traffic. Center is returning home. It is

always a choice we can make.

THOMAS CRUM
Each day I examine myself on three
counts: whether or not I am loyal to
those in whose behalf I act; whether or
not I am trustworthy in my dealings
with friends; whether or not I practice
what is imparted. — TSENG TZU
I Know I Am Centered When...
I am balanced and stable.

I am breathing deeply from my belly.

I am relaxed, calm, and focused.

I am aware, internally and externally.

I am appreciative of myself and others.

I am feeling my emotions — and learning from them.

I am compassionate and connected to others and to my environment.

I am able to receive and give sincere acknowledgment.

I am energized by purpose.

I am bigger than my challenges.

I am unattached to the outcome of a situation.

I am having fun and laughing often.

— THOMAS CRUM

©
 Do not be concerned about others not appreciating you.
Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
— CONFUCIUS

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VISUALIZE IT
Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Reflect upon something

that you're holding onto that's not working anymore. What

would your life look like without it? What one small step can

you take to let go of the attachment? How would it feel?

©
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even —things
LOU REE
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 WISDOM

Our wisdom and guidance comes from correct maps, from the way things really

are, have been, and will be.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
 Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living degeniuses them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

82
 Ififjjifjof

en you're young, you don't know, but you don't

know you don't know, so you take some chances. In your

twenties and thirties you don't know, and you know you don't

know, and that tends to freeze you; less risk taking. In your

forties you know, but you don't know you know, you may still be

a little tentative. But then, as you pass fifty, if you've been

paying attention, you know, and you know you know.

GEORGE CARLIN

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WISDOM
is not a fad.
N obody grows old
merely by living a
number of years.
We grow old by
deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle
the skin, but to
give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul.
SAMUEL ULLMAN

©
We are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people

we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or

not. Otherwise they run up unannounced and surprise us,

come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night

and demand to know

who deserted them,

who betrayed them,
who is going
to make amends.
JOAN DIDION
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
SUSANNE CURCHOD NECKER
 CRITICISM
is just someone else's opinion.

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It's possible to have too much in life. Too

many clothes jade our appreciation for new

ones; too much money can put us out of

touch with life; too much free time can dull

the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to

come very near the bone so that we can

taste the marrow

OT 16 rather than its superfluities.

— JOAN CHITTISTER

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 One cannot have wisdom without living life.
DOROTHY MCCALL

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 DESTINY

We are responsible for our own effectiveness, for our own happiness, and

ultimately, I would say, for most of our circumstances.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 CHOICE
Destiny isn't a matter of chance. It's a matter of

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The future is the time

when you7!! wish

you'd done what
you aren't doing now.

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ONE OF THE GREATEST JOYS IN LIFE

IS TO BE IN SEARCH OF ONE THING

AND TO DISCOVER ANOTHER.

ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
w hen dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

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 I belreve that when all the dreams are dead,

you're left only with yourself. TOU U DGTTGr

like yourself a lot.

RITA MAE BROWN

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 e nee a king built a great highway and invited his people to see who

could travel the highway best. On the first day, people who traveled the

new road complained to the king that a large pile of rocks and debris had

been left and the mess hindered their travel. One lone traveler, tired and

dirty, handed the king a bag of gold, explaining that he had stopped to

clear a pile of rocks that blocked the road and found the gold. The king

gave the money to the man, saying, "You've earned this gold. He who
travels the road best is he who makes the road smoother for those who

will follow." UNKNOWN

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What we seek we do not find
— that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as
life. It is something else we find.
SUSAN GLASPELL

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What we most want to run
from we'll end up running
toward and drawing to us,
the way sharks are attracted
to thrashing bodies. GREGG LEVOY
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 If we were supposed to be perfect, spell check wouldn't have been created.

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 AFFIRMATION

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that

lie within us.

STEPHEN R. COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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 We said, if we're going to do a book, then let's have a mega best-seller.
Your mind works based on programming, and so what we said is that

we'd program each of our minds independently. As we went to sleep,

we'd say "Mega best-selling title, mega best-selling title." We'd say it 400

times, because we needed a perfect title for the book... we'd give

ourselves a thought command saying, "It's going to come to one of us at

4 o'clock." Jack was the blessed one, he woke up, got goosebumps and

said, "Chicken Soup for the Soul!" He called me in the middle of the night
and we had the title... We went to New York to sell it, and 32 publishers

said, "That ain't gonna make it, that's too nicey-nice. Sixty million books

later, I think it might make it."

MARK VICTOR HANSEN AND JACK CANFIELD

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 The mOSt

words
utter are those words

we say to ourselves,
about ourselves, when

we're by ourselves.
 DIRECTIONS: One affirmation in mirror each morning. Repeat

affirmation as necessary. Use daily for best results to relieve symptoms

of negativity and doubt.

I will meet someone new today. I can do this.

My world is full of new experiences. I am lovable.

I am strong and healthy. I am a success.

I will not be stressed today. I can achieve my goals.

Whatever happens, I can deal with it. I am happy and free.

I will help others today. I am loved.

I will overcome this. It's just an obstacle in my path.

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Daily affirmations are an important way to

pick yourself up.

We all have our bad days and you can't

always count on other people to make

things better. For instance, you might say to

someone, "I'm a bad person/' expecting

them to say in return, "Oh, no, you're not,

you're one of the kindest, most thoughtful

people I know." But nine times out of ten,

they'll say instead, "Really. H'mmm. Hey

could you pass the Chee-tos?" And

sometimes you're not even eating Chee-tos,

you're eating barbecue potato chips or

some weird flavored popcorn.

ELLEN DEGENERES

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 SAY GO OD -BYE
TO YOUR

INNER CRITIC.

©
 =11, here's another clue for you all: The walrus

was an affirmation. What? What I mean is that

even the best medicine

in the world won't work
if you don't take it.Andasa
nation, we don't like to take our medication. We are all

naughty Randall McMurphys, slipping our pills under our

tongues, thinking we are beating Nurse Ratchet. Talk about

shooting yourself in the psychological foot.

 o say something nice
about themselves, this
is the hardest thing in
the world for people to
do. They'd rather take
their clothes off.
NANCY FRIDAY

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Self-respect cannot be hunted.

It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated

out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone,

in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly

realize that, knowing the good, we have done it-

knowing the beautiful, we have served it;

knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

WHITNEY GRISWOLD

©
 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest

fear is that We 0 TG pOWerful

bey o n d m ea s u re . it iS OUr ught, not

our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who

am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually

who are you not to be?

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

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Adrienne, Carol. The Purpose of Your Life. Eagle Brook, 1998.

. The Purpose of Your Life Experiential Guide. Eagle Brook, 1999.

Bragg, Terry. 31 Days to High Self-Esteem. Peacemakers, 1997.

Canfield, Jack, and Mark Hansen. Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Health
Communications.

Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Simon & Schuster, 1989.

. Living the 7 Habits. Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Crum, Thomas. Journey to Center. Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Day, Laura. Practical Intuition. Broadway Books, 1996.

Fritz, Robert. The Path of Least Resistance. Fawcett Columbine, 1984.

Gawain, Shakti. The Path of Transformation. Nataraj, 1993.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness in Everyday Life.
Hyperion, 1994.

Levey, Joel, and Michelle Levey. Living in Balance. Conari Press, 1998.

Levoy, Gregg. Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life.

Harmony Books, 1997.
McAlindon, Harold R. The Little Book of Big Ideas. Cumberland House, 1999.

Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Miracle of Mindfulness. Beacon Press, 1987. Q™

Patterson, Ella 1001 Reasons to Think Positive. Simon & Schuster, 1997

Peck, M Scott The Rood Less Traveled. Simon & Schuster, 1978

Redfield, James. The G Prophecy. TimeWarner, 1993

Schaef, Anne Wilson Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much.

HarperSanFrancisco, 1990

VanZant, lyanla. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. Fireside, 1998.

Warner, Judith S. From Chaos to Center Aiki Works, 1999

Witting, Chris, Jr. 21 Day Countdown to Success. Career Press, 1998

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