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Create Your Own Future

Create Your Own Future
How To Master The 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited
Success
By: Brian Tracy

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Table of Contents

Dedication
Introduction There Are No Limits
Chapter One Prologue- Success Is Predictable
Chapter Two Success Factor #1 – Your Potential Is Unlimited
Chapter Three Success Factor #2 - Clarity Is Critical
Chapter Four Success Factor #3 - Knowledge Is Power
Chapter Five Success Factor #4 - Mastery Is Magical
Chapter Six Success Factor #5 - Attitude Is Everything
Chapter Seven Success Factor #6 - Relationships Are Essential
Chapter Eight Success Factor #7 - Money Matters
Chapter Nine Success Factor #8 - You Are A Genius
Chapter Ten Success Factor #9 - Results Determine Rewards
Chapter Eleven Success Factor #10- Seize The Day!
Chapter Twelve Success Factor #11- Character Counts
Chapter Thirteen Success Factor #12- Fortune Favors The Brave
Chapter Fourteen Make Your Life A Masterpiece
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Brian Tracy Biography
Brian Tracy’s Advanced Coaching Program
Recommended Reading

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Dedication
This book is lovingly dedicated to the most important people in my life, my
wonderful wife Barbara and our four incredible children – Christina, Michael,
David and Catherine (the Great). You have made it possible for me to create
my own future.

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Introduction

There Are No Limits

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish
ourselves.”(Thomas Edison)

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land far away, there lived
an old man in a house on top of a hill. He had dedicated his entire life to
study and meditation. He was known far and wide for his intelligence,
sensitivity and wisdom. Politicians, businesspeople and dignitaries came to
visit him and ask him questions. His answers were always correct. He
seemed to have a special faculty that enabled him to cut to the essence of
any problem or issue. When his answers and solutions were implemented,
the result was always excellent. His fame soon spread throughout the land.
In the village below the hill was a group of boys who played
together. Sometimes they climbed the hill to visit the old man and ask him
questions, for which he always seemed have the correct answer. Over time,
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it became a little game, with the boys continually trying to think of a
question that the old man could not answer. But they were never successful.
One day, the ringleader of the group, a boy named Aram, called the
others around him and said, “I have finally found a way to stump the old
man. Here in my hand, I have a bird. We will go and ask the old man if the
bird is alive or dead. If he says that it is dead, I will release it and it will fly
away. If he says that it is alive, I will crush it, and the bird will be dead.
Either way, he will at last have been proven wrong.”
Excited about the prospect of finally catching the old man with a
wrong answer, they hurried up the hill. The old man watched them coming
and noticed the eager looks on their faces. Then Aram stepped forward and
asked, “Old man, I have a bird here in my hands. Is it alive or is it dead?”
The old man looked at their mischievous, expectant faces and then
quietly said, “Aram, it is in your hands.”

You Are The Master of Your Own Destiny

The point and moral of this story is that almost everything that
happens to you is in your hands. Your destiny is very much up to you. Your
future is largely determined by yourself, by your own choices and decisions.
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What you achieve is the result of what you do, or fail to do, day-by-day and
year-by-year.
When I was twenty-one, in the middle of a cold, cold winter, I sat
in my small one room apartment and contemplated my future. It didn’t look
very promising. I was a high school drop out working as a construction
laborer, too broke to even go out the week before payday. Suddenly, I had a
revelation. Just like the story about the old man, I realized that everything
that happened to me from that moment onward was in my own hands. No
one else was going to do it for me. I was responsible.

You Can Create Your Own Future

Peter Drucker wrote, “The very best way to predict the future is to
create it.” Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, popular, prosperous and
successful in whatever they do. But the only way for you to achieve and
enjoy all that is possible for you is to create your own future. And the good
news is that there have never been more opportunities, in more different
areas, for you to fulfill your dreams and goals than there are today. Your
chief aim in life should be to take full advantage of everything that your
world has to offer.
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There are basically two types of people in our world, the active and
the passive. Only about 10% are proactive, and they are very much in the
minority. They are however the movers and shakers in every area. They are
the people who take their lives into their own hands, and make things
happen. They accept complete responsibility for themselves and for results.
They dare to go forward in the face of risk and uncertainty. When you
decide to create your own future, you join this vital minority. You begin to
push to the front of the line in your own life.
The majority of people tend to be passive in their responses and
reactions to life. They constantly wish and hope that something good will
happen to them. They buy lottery tickets, watch television endlessly and
complain about their situations. They resent successful people but are not
willing to make the efforts that others have made to achieve what they have
achieved. They live their lives like a person waiting for a bus on a street
where no busses go.

Hope Is Not A Strategy
Hope is not a strategy for success. Your life is too precious and
important to be left to chance. Your greatest responsibility is to take
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command of your future and shape your destiny the way you want it. Your
goal must be to do something wonderful with your life.
In the years since that moment of awareness in my small apartment,
I have traveled and worked in more than 80 countries. I have started, built,
managed or turned around 22 different businesses. I have served as a
consultant or trainer for more than 500 companies, and taught more than
2,000,000 students and seminar participants these strategies for success in
business and personal life. In the following pages, I will share with you the
best ideas I have ever discovered to help you create the kind of future you
both desire and deserve.
Sometimes, in my seminars, I will ask, “Is there anyone here who
would like to double their income?” Almost instinctively, they all raise their
hands.
“Well,” I say. “I have good news for you. I can guarantee that
everyone here is going to double their income, if you just live long enough.
If your income increases at the rate of inflation, about 3% per year, and you
work another 20 to 25 years, you will definitely double your income.”
“So, doubling your income is not the real question, is it? The real
question is, ‘How fast can you do it?’”

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Step On Your Own Accelerator
If you are like me, you are impatient about getting results. Once
you have decided to do something new or different, especially to create your
own future, you want to get on with it as quickly as possible. That’s good.
That’s the way it should be.
In the pages ahead, I will show you how to step on the
accelerator of your own life, and how to achieve your goals faster than you
ever dreamed possible. I will share with you a series of practical, proven
methods that work for everyone who uses them. I will give you the most
powerful and popular tools and techniques for personal and career success
ever discovered, the same strategies used by all successful people, in every
field.
Join me on a journey to discover and explore the vast, uncharted
regions of your own potential. Decide today to create your own future.

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