July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 39m
English
Content preview from Trading on Target: How to Cultivate a Winner's State of Mind
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INCREASING THE MOMENTUM OF YOUR CHOICES
So, now that you can see the benefits of making the right choices, how do you get started? Follow these six steps.
1. The first step to increasing the momentum of your choices is to be aware that you are making choices. This step is not as easy as it sounds. We make most of our choices unconsciously and/or automatically. As you take various steps during the day, just be aware that each one reflects a choice, and just acknowledge to yourself that you have just made a choice and what it was.
2. Now that you are aware of the act of making choices throughout the day, start asking yourself what choices you would really like to make in various parts of your life. For example, what choices would you like to be making in your career, in your home life, in your marriage, in your public life, in your health and well being, in your financial life, and so on?
3. If you are unable to see what choices are available to you, then sit down and write out a plan for your life. What are your goals? What kind of life do you want to have? One of the fastest ways to find out what you really want from your life is to write out your own eulogy. Pretend that you have reached the end of your life. What do you want to say about your life and how you lived it. This is not the time to censor your thoughts, but to let them take flight.
4. Now list the choices you will have to make to create that life you would like to live. Take a look at them. You might just want to ...
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