CHAPTER FOUR

Tap Your Most Precious Resource

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

—WILFERD A. PETERSON

Your ability to think is your most precious resource. Your ability to decide and then take action determines everything that happens to you. And your ability to choose your own thoughts and reactions is the one thing over which you have complete control.

Bob Silver was a thirty-two-year-old man living in Chicago, Illinois. A year after he attended one of my seminars, he got in touch with me and told me a remarkable story about how his life had changed over the previous twelve months.

Before he began, he was overweight, was between jobs, had been married and divorced twice, and was ...

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