Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement (Perfect Paperback)

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE

"Every line in this book is bursting with truth, wisdom, and power. Brian Tracy is the preeminent authority on showing you how to dramatically improve your life. Let him be your guide. I've learned so much from Brian myself that I can't thank him enough!"
—Robert G. Allen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"This book gives you a step-by-step system to transform your thinking about yourself and your potential, enabling you to achieve greater success in every area of your life."
—Lee Iacocca, Chairman, Lee Iacocca & Associates

"Once again, Brian Tracy has written an incredible book which shows individuals how to delve into their inner resources so that they can not only identify realistic goals but develop a plan on how to achieve these goals. This book promises to be a bestseller and to influence the lives of so many. It is must reading."
—Sally Pipes, President, Pacific Research Institute

"Outstanding! Brian Tracy's Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is a must-read. Use the powerful 'mental software' program in this book to tap your vast inner resources and bring the life you've been dreaming about into reality."
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Full Steam Ahead!

"As usual, Brian Tracy has hit another home run with Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. It's a must-read!"
—Mac Anderson, founder, Successories, Inc.

"Brian's new book, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, will show you how to attract the people and resources you need to achieve any goal you set for yourself."
—Tony Jeary, Mr. Presentation, author of Life Is a Series of Presentations

"This is a masterful book laden with wisdom and knowledge. It'll catapult you from intention to implementation. It arms you with the information and insights you need to achieve success and significance in your life."
—Nido R. Qubein, founder, National Speakers Association Foundation Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Company

From the Inside Flap

Brian Tracy is one of the most popular professional speakers and business authorities in the world today. Every year, he lives his dream by helping thousands of people live their own dreams. In this follow-up to his bestselling book Create Your Own Future, Tracy offers a proven plan for transforming your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

What you think has a profound effect on what you do and how you do it. You can only achieve it when you believe it! If you don’t think you can do it, you never will. Your life experiences determine the way you think. But your thoughts aren’t set in stone. Just like you can learn to ride a bike or play chess, you can also learn to control your thinking and control your life.

This book shows you how to change the way you think and open new doors to unlimited possibilities. Based on thirty years of experience sharing this philosophy with more than two million people, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life focuses on the importance of setting goals, expanding your thinking, and imagining your own unlimited potential. It presents twelve powerful principles that will help anyone get on the road to a better, more fulfilling professional and personal life. These principles will show you how to dream big dreams, take charge of your life, become wealthy, and achieve every goal you can set for yourself.

Each chapter offers inspirational stories and principles that get you thinking, backed up with action exercises that help you train yourself to think and act like the successful person you truly are. Every principle helps you change your thinking in a positive way. Every exercise brings about a positive change in the way you see yourself, the world, and your future. Soon, you’ll begin to see unlimited possibilities in your future. You’ll learn to think and act like a successful, happy, and prosperous person--leading to incredible results.

The principles in this book have helped millions of people around the world take control of their thinking and make positive changes in their lives. And they can help you too. If you want to achieve wealth, happiness, and professional and personal fulfillment, all you have to do is Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (August 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471735388
• ISBN-13: 978-0471735380
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #200,364 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can you really change your life by changing your thinking?, July 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement (Hardcover)

The late great Earl Nightengale was famous for saying "You become what you think about." In the bible it says; "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." So how important is thinking? It determines your outcome. Change your thinking and you will change your life and let Brian Tracy show you how.

Great book. MAybe his best.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is terrific! It really can help you change your life., August 24, 2005

By	James G. Salmons (Alexandria, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of Brian Tracy's best books, if not the best, and should be included in anyone's library if they are interested in the subject of personal achievement. For those new to the field who need to know the basics it is possibly the best introduction you could get. For those who are well informed it does contain important information not found elsewhere.

It is hard to believe some critics of this book have actually read it. Check it out for yourself. I am an avid reader of Brian Tracy and have led seminars myself on many of the subjects he presents. This is clearly one of his best. Here are some facts:

While this book does repeat many of the ideas you will find in his other books, there is excellent new material as well, and in many cases he adds to previous concepts--sometimes short but exciting ideas that offer a potential to help people make dramatic improvements in their lives.

One feature of this book that is not as common in his other works is the reference to numerous studies by universities and other research groups that demonstrate the validity of the concepts presented. It is helpful to know the basis and validity of these ideas.

The chief value of this book when compared to Brian's other books, or to other books in the field, is that it focuses on the key concept for all thinking about successful living and personal achievement--how you think determines everything. Other works focus on goal setting, time management, and other topics in a somewhat isolated way. This work discusses these but in the context of a person's attitude toward them as the key to success. This is a subtle but important concept.

It is unfortunate that some people who have read widely in the field have downgraded this book by giving it a low rating simply because they already know much of the material. On this basis the very best first grade reader would receive one star by a fifth grader because he/she already knew all the words. This is an outstanding book and deserves five stars on the basis of what it is, not put down because somewhere in over thirty volumes written by the author he may have touched on most of the topics found here. (But remember, there is enough new material to make it worth buying even if you have many of his other works.)

Get it. Read it. It will change your life.

Dr. James G. Salmons

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reminder, Powerful Motivator, June 20, 2004

By	Coach Phil "Author of over 500 articles at ww... (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement (Hardcover)

In recent years, Tracy has written a series of self-help and
motivational books based on his life-time of helping
individuals and businesses to achieve goals and improve
results. In my opinion, this is the best of the group. (One
of his earlier books, "Create Your Own Future," is also
excellent.)

The central theme is that over time, "we usually get what we
think about most." While many things factor into our success,
one of the most critical is the accuracy and power of our

thinking. In general, if we think clearly, we tend to get
better results. If we are optimistic, creative, determined,
resourceful and strategic in our thinking, we will achieve
more and better results than if we are negative, fuzzy and
confused. That seems obvious.

But too often, we forget the obvious. We allow our thinking
to focus on daily annoyances, or petty distractions, or the
latest fad. We get confused by the news, or lose our
confidence when we are criticized or experience a temporary
set-back.

Here are two key points from the book:

A) If we don't take charge of our thinking, other people and
events surely will.

Every day, advertisers spend a fortune to focus our attention
on their products. News organizations are determined to get
us to think about the latest disaster, tax increase or virus.
People around us want us to focus on THEM and THEIR problems,
rather than our own goals and priorities.

B) Your future will reflect your dominant thoughts.

Your energy level, your self-discipline and self-confidence,
your ambition and your optimism are the raw materials with
which you will build your future, and your thoughts,
attitudes and expectations largely determine your daily
actions.

And here's a suggestion of my own: Once is not enough! Most
of us have read a motivational or self-help book in the past.
We've listened to audio programs and we "know this stuff."
That's great! But it's not enough! We are bombarded with

thousands and thousands of negative messages every day.

To stay positive and motivated, to stay focused and
optimistic and ambitious, make sure you add at least a few
minutes of positive reminders to the mix - every single day!
Read every day! Listen to tapes, every day!

This is not a profound book, and there is little that is
truly "new" in it. (Oh, how we love anything that is "new and
improved!") It is merely a wonderful book that you should
read and re-read every year or so, in regular rotation with a
handful of other favorites. Buy, read and enjoy this book.

You may find it at your local bookstore, or you can get it at
Amazon. This is NOT a book to borrow from the library, skim
quickly and return. This is a book to read, and read again.
If you are serious about your future, this is one of the
books you should own and read over the years until it is dog-
eared and falls apart.