The first chapter by asking that question, kind of makes you reveal the following things:
- Your thoughts and feelings about yourself
- Your beliefs
- Your values
- Your habits
Real security not lies in possessions or with people, but in the knowledge that whatever happens, you can deal with it.
Beliefs are a matter of choice. They can be held quite independently of facts. Choosing which beliefs to have is largely a matter of selecting suitable evidences from your experience of life.
The mind and body are part of the same system. If you change your mind, you change your body. If you change your body, you change your mind.
What you focus on, will increase in your life.
There is no such thing as a failure. There is only feedback.
Long term success requires commitment.
Self-empowerment means feeling in control of your key elements of life, being able to make sound and effective decisions, being clear about your core values, being able to create and maintain worthwhile relationships, having most of your attention on the present, dealing confidently with challenges.
Repitition with belief is one of the master keys to personal development.
The empowering questions are of two types: possibility questions and necessity questions which open up the thinking process and direct them respectively.
Your mind-body cannot tell the difference between a real event and a vividly-imagined one, so one can take that to advantage.
The way you think directly affects the way you act.
Everything we do because we put a greater value in doing it than in not doing it.
Habits happen out of our consciousness and that's why they are potentially dangerous. To first take control of a habit, one has to get fully conscious of what one is doing. Having got conscious about the habit, the important questions to ask about it are: What do I gain by doing this habit?, What would I lose by doing this habit?, What could I lost by not doing this habit?, What could I gain by not doing this habit?, Which of the important values does this habit violate or contradict? And at its place what would you choose to support your important values?
There is no need make any effort to break the old habit as long as you remember to keep bringing the new image (of doing the new habit or not doing the old habit and seeing/feeling all the advantages that come out of it) in mind.
Attempting to change the habits by will power alone is inviting failure.
Be patient with yourself, change one habit at a time and put your attention on how you want to be?
