August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 24m
English
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CHAPTER 2Doing Your Own Reboot
Have you ever found yourself second‐guessing or doubting yourself? Have you ever really wanted to do something, achieve something, or pursue something, yet you just couldn't seem to get out of your own way and make it happen? How many times have you talked yourself out of doing something?
Likely, we've all found ourselves in that position of wanting to move our life in a given direction, yet we just can't seem to escape that little voice in our head telling us we aren't going to succeed. Maybe it pops up when we are trying to lose weight and get ourselves in shape. Perhaps, the doubts creep in when we are thinking of pursuing a new job or making a change in our career. Or perhaps that nagging little voice is keeping us from finding the relationship that we really want.
Everybody wants something, yet most seem to struggle to get it. Never really understanding how or why others seem to be able to move their lives in a better direction, but for some reason it just doesn't seem to work out for us.
If only there was an owner's manual for our mind, a set of instructions for ourselves. A simple guide that cuts through all the noise and, once and for all, enables us to understand the most important thing in our world—us. If only we could restart, reboot our thought process based on the right insights and right beliefs, it would make all the difference in the world. After all, if we can conquer our mind, we can conquer anything.
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