Polish the Language of Your Goals
When my friend Stephane Morin was 14 years old, his father asked him one night what he wanted for dinner and Stephane casually replied, “A steak.” That response angered his father because as a piano player, he never made much money. He had expected his son to request something inexpensive, such as a hot dog.
“We’re not lawyers or doctors,” Stephane’s father yelled. “We’ll never be able to afford expensive meals.”
Stephane listened, but he refused to believe what his father was saying. It was as if from that moment ...
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