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Living a successful life
The people who succeed in life are those people who can overcome or ignore (at least for most of the time) the negative thoughts that we all have, and which hold us back.
For instance, how often do you have thoughts that tell you that 'you're hopeless when it comes to organizing your life'; or that 'you're not very good at maths and you never will be'; or that 'you're destined to be fat'; or that 'you'd love to be a manager but you just don't have the right skills when it comes to dealing with people'. And so on.
According to Eve Ash and Rob Gerrand, the authors of 'Rewrite Your Life!', all of us 'follow 'scripts'. They dictate how we make decisions. They tell us how to act. They can block us at crucial times in business and in our personal lives, and prevent us from realising our dreams'.
Ash and Gerrand describe scripts as being the 'internal voice that represents our entrenched attitudes and beliefs'.
To acknowledge the powerful nature of scripts, they have subtitled their book 'How to turn your negative thoughts into positive scripts and change your life'.
The opening chapter of 'Rewrite Your Life!' explains where our scripts come from. Ash and Gerrand point out that 'they come from our experiences. Sometimes we make them up ourselves, but more often we pick them up from other people – from our parents, from our brothers and sisters, from our partners, from our teachers, from our friends, from our heroes, from the media'.
The next two chapters of the book respectively look at two vastly different types of scripts, namely, vision scripts and paralysis scripts.
Vision scripts are positive messages that we can repeatedly give to ourselves to help us work out our goals and then to achieve those goals.
On the other hand, paralysis scripts do exactly as their name says, they stop us dead in our tracks and prevent us from moving forward to the goals that we have set ourselves. Paralysis scripts often contain the word 'don’t' as in 'don’t work with family' or 'don’t leave your job until you've got another one to go to'.
The eight remaining chapters in 'Rewrite Your Life!' then focus on specific areas of our lives, and how we can rewrite our existing negative scripts into positive ones so that we can attain the success that we desire.
Here's a few examples of those chapter titles: 'Scripts for speaking in public'; 'Sleeping scripts'; 'Scripts for studying'; and 'Scripts for handling change'.
The book concludes with a postscript in which the life changing potential of scripts is reinforced. But the book's authors also warn us that 'unless you make your new scripts a habit, the chances are you will revert back to the old scripts'.
'Rewrite Your Life!' is a powerful book. It contains plenty of practical, down to earth advice that all of us can use to radically transform our attitudes to life and they way that we live and succeed.
For more information about 'Rewrite Your Life!', point your browser at the Web site of the book's publisher, Penguin Books