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5 Shaping Your Reality

New Thoughts about Thinking

The fishmongers’ thoughts, words, and actions reflect the way they see the world and their reality. Language is the mechanism that the fishmongers use to connect them to their customers and to one another. Language is generally considered just a tool to communicate with others, but in a more powerful way, language connects you to your reality through your thought processes.

“Thinking” is how we talk to ourselves. The function of your mind is to process bits of information into other bits. It is like an internal feedback system, and things such as self-confidence, motivation, self-esteem, attitude, and achievement are internally based and are within each person’s own control. How you connect ...

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