Introduction
There is nothing on earth that you cannot have once you have
mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
—Robert Collier
■ THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU
You are a thoroughly good person.You deserve a wonderful life, full
of success, happiness, joy, and excitement.You are entitled to have
happy relationships, excellent health, meaningful work, and financial
independence. These are your birthright. This is what your life
is meant to include.
You are engineered for success and designed to have high levels
of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride. You are extraordinary;
there has never been anyone exactly like you in all the history
of mankind on earth.You have absolutely amazing untapped talents
and abilities that, when properly unleashed and applied, can bring
you everything you could ever want in life.
You are living at the greatest time in all of human history.You
are surrounded by abundant opportunities that you can take advantage
of to realize your dreams. The only real limits on what you can
be, do, or have are the limits you place on yourself by your own
thinking.Your future is virtually unlimited.
■ GET REAL!
How did you react to the preceding three paragraphs? You probably
had two responses. First, you liked what they said, and your fondest
wish was for them to be true for you. But your second response was
probably one of skepticism and disbelief. Even though you deeply
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desire to live a wonderfully healthy, happy, prosperous life, when
you read those words, your doubts and fears arose immediately to
remind you of reasons why these dreams and goals may not be possible
for you.Well, join the crowd!
This is exactly how I felt many years ago. Even though I wanted
to be a big success in life, I was unskilled, uneducated, and unemployed.
I had no idea what I could do to improve my situation. I felt
trapped between big ideas on the one hand and limited resources
and opportunities on the other. Then I discovered a series of remarkable
principles that have been responsible for all the great successes
and achievements of the ages, and my life changed forever.
After proving these laws and principles in my own life, I began
speaking, and training others to apply the same ideas. Since then, I
have given more than two thousand talks and seminars as long as
four days in length, in 24 countries, to a total of more than two million
