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Better Your Life (Collection)
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Better Your Life (Collection)

by Linda Elder, Richard Paul, Judy Chartrand, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall, Heather Ishikawa, John Maketa
August 2013
Beginner
417 pages
7h 38m
English
Pearson
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Day Four. Deliberately Target Your Purposes

Thinking is always guided by human purposes. Everything you do is related to some purpose you have. Your purpose is whatever you try to accomplish. It is your goal or objective in any given situation or context.

Your thinking goes wrong when you aren’t clear about your purpose, have unrealistic purposes, have contradictory purposes, or don’t stick to your expressed purpose. Some goals are short-range and transitory; others are long-range and permanent. Some are primary. Some are secondary. Some represent your central mission in life. Others become means to other ends.

In human life, there is often a discrepancy between public (announced) goals and private (unspoken) goals. Thus, a politician’s announced ...

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