CHAPTER 1

Self-Assessment: Where You Are and Where Your Future Intentions Lie

You are the developer and designer of your life.

Where Your Life Is Now

The thoughts you entertain, words you speak, and the issues you write about are the major factors in where your life and career are today. Everything you think and do from this day forward will greatly affect where you will arrive in one year, five years, and for the rest of your life. Our belief system either helps us remove hindrances and prepare for success ahead or it keeps us down and defeated. The views and opinions we hold of ourselves (self-perception) and of the world around us create the way we experience reality. We devise in our minds, then follow through with our actions, whether we ...

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