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The Ten Day Mental Challenge - (Continued)

It sounds easy, doesn't it? And I'm sure it could be. But those who begin it are frequently surprised to discover how often their brains are engaged in nonproductive, fearful, worrisome, or destructive thinking.  Why would we continually indulge in mental and emotional patterns that create unnecessary stress in our lives? The answer is simple: we actually think it helps! Many people live in a state of worry. Inorder to accomplish this state, they continually focus and dwell on the worse possible scenario. Why would they do this? Because they believe it will get them to do something - to take action. But the truth of the matter is that worry usually puts a person in an extremmely unresourceful emotional state. It doesn't usually empower us to take action, but rather, it tends to cause us to become overwhelmed with frustration or fear. Yet using some of the simple tools in this book, you could change your worried state immediately by focusing on a solution. You could as...

The Ten-Day Mental Challenge

We need to practice this emotional state of playfulness or joyous approach in weeding the gardens of our minds. We have to be able to notice when we start to have a negative pattern- not beat ourselves up about it and not dwell on it- but simply break the patterns as quickly as we discover them, and replace them with the new seeds of mental, emotional, physical, financial, spiritual, and professiional success. How do we break these patterns when they show up?  Simply remember the following steps: 1) You need to decide what you do want. If you really want to feel a sense of passion, joy and control over your life -- which obviously you must, or you wouldn't be reading this now- then you know what you want. 2) You've got to get leverage on yourself. If you read this whole  book  and don't establish any new patterns, wouldn't that be an unbelievable waste of time? In constrast, how will you feel as you truly use what you've learned to take immediate control of y...