Believe It to Achieve It: Overcome Your Doubts, Let Go of the Past, and Unlock Your Full Potential (Brian Tracy, 2017)

• There is no instruction manual for life, so create your own
• Negatives emotions justifications: identification, hypersensitivity, judgmentalism, rationalisation
• Sedona method: the pencil test: hold it tight and imagine holding it for years and then let it go
• Personal development: self-disclosure, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-esteem revisited
• Seven-year itch: want and desire evolve and change
• People declare bankruptcy because failure to think ahead financially
• 6 P formula: proper prior planning prevents poor performance
• Stages of grief: denial > anger > bargaining > depression > acceptance > resurgence
• Humans only learn through suffering
• Key to success in human relationships: make others feel important, build self-esteem in others, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, attention
• Effective listening: listening without interruptions, pause before replying, question for clarification, paraphrase what you heard