Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement (38 page)

There are no real limits to what you can be, do, and have, except for the limits you place on yourself.You are a thoroughly good and extremely talented person, and there is very little that you cannot achieve if you want it intensely enough and work toward it long enough and hard enough. The key is to begin today, and then
never
give up!

ccc_tracy_bib_256-259.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 256

Bibliography

Alexander, Bevin.
How Great Generals Win.
New York:W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Allen, James.
As Man Thinketh.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1983.

Bach, Richard.
Illusions.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1994.

Barker, Raymond Charles.
Power of Decision.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1997.

Beatty, Jack.
The World According to Peter Drucker.
New York: Bantam Books, 1999.

Bloch, Arthur.
Murphy’s Law.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishers, 2002.

Botton, Alain de.
The Consolations of Philosophy.
New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

Bristol, Claude.
The Magic of Believing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Brown, Les.
It’s Not Over Until You Win.
New York: Fireside, 1998.

Bucke, Richard.
Cosmic Consciousness.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1991.

Buckingham, Marcus, and Donald Clifton.
Now, Discover Your
Strengths.
New York: Free Press, 2001.

Butterworth, Eric.
The Creative Life.
New York: J. P. Tarcher, 2001.

Butterworth, Eric.
Discover the Power within You.
San Franciso: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Chilton, David.
The Wealthy Barber.
Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 1998.

Collier, Robert.
The Secret of the Ages.
Oak Harbor,WA: Robert Collier Publications, 1984.

Covey, Stephen.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

DePorter, Bobbi, with Mike Hernacki.
Quantum Learning.
New York: DTP, 1992.

256

ccc_tracy_bib_256-259.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 257

Bibliography

➤
257

Dichter, Ernest.
Motivating Human Behavior.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Drucker, Peter F.
Management Challenges for the 21st Century.
New York: HarperBusiness, 2001.

Drucker, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: HarperBusiness, 1993.

Elkins, Dr. Dove Peretz.
Self-Concept Sourcebook.
Mystic, CT: Growth Associates, 1990.

Epictetus.
A Manual for Living.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Ferrucci, Piero.
What We May Be.
New York: J. P. Tarcher, 1983.

Fox, Emmet.
Alter Your Life.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Fox, Emmet.
Power through Constructive Thinking.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.

Fox, Emmet.
The Sermon on the Mount.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Gardner, Howard.
Frames of Mind.
New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Goldsmith, Joel.
The Infinite Way.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1979.

Gordon, Arthur.
A Touch of Wonder.
New York: Jove Publications, 1991.

Gowain, Shakti.
Creating True Prosperity.
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2000.

Haanel, Charles F.
The Master Key System.
Wilkes-Barre, PA: Kallisti Publishing, 2000.

Hansen, Mark Victor, and Jack Canfield.
Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1995.

Hansen, Mark Victor, and Robert G. Allen.
The One Minute Millionaire.
New York: Harmony Books, 2002.

Heller, Robert.
Business Masterminds: Peter Drucker.
New York: D. K.

Publishing, 2001.

Hill, Napoleon.
The Master Key to Riches.
New York: Fawcett Books, 1991.

Hill, Napoleon.
Think and Grow Rich.
New York: Fawcett Books, 1990.

Holmes, Ernest.
Creative Mind and Success.
New York: J. P. Tarcher, 1997.

ccc_tracy_bib_256-259.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 258

258

➤

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Holmes, Ernest.
Science of Mind.
New York: J. P. Tarcher, 1998.

James, William.
The Varieties of Religious Experience.
New York: Touchstone Books, 1997.

Keegan, John.
A History of Warfare.
New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Leonard, George.
Mastery.
New York: Plume, 1992.

Lin,Yutang.
The Importance of Living.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1998.

Luvaas, J.
Napoleon on the Art of War.
New York: Touchstone Books, 2001.

McClelland, David.
The Achieving Society.
New York: Free Press, 1985.

McCormick, Blaine.
At Work with Thomas Edison.
Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press, Inc. 2001.

McGraw, Phillip P.
Life Strategies.
New York: Hyperion, 2000.

Mises, Ludwig von.
Human Action.
San Francisco, CA: Fox & Wilkes, 1997.

Mitroff, Ian.
Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: The Art of Solving the
Right Problems.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998.

Neville.
The Law and the Promise.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1984.

Neville.
Seedtime and Harvest.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1985.

Newman, James.
Release Your Brakes!
New York: Warner Books, 1983.

Ouspensky, P. D.
The Fourth Way.
New York: Random House, 1971.

Ouspensky, P. D.
In Search of the Miraculous.
San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 2001.

Parkinson, C. Northcote.
Parkinson’s Law.
Cutchogue, NY: Bucca-neer Books, 1996.

Peale, Norman Vincent.
Power of Positive Thinking.
New York: ball-lantine Books, 1996.

Ponder, Catherine.
The Dynamic Laws of Healing.
Marina Dell Ray, CA: DeVorss & Company, 1989.

Qubein, Nido.
Stairway to Success.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Rand, Ayn.
Philosophy:Who Needs It.
New York: New American Library, 1985.

ccc_tracy_bib_256-259.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 259

Bibliography

➤
259

Schwartz, David.
The Magic of Thinking Big.
New York: Fireside, 1987.

Slywotzky, Adrian J., and David J. Morrison.
Profit Patterns.
New York: Random House, 1999.

Smiles, Samual.
Character.
McLean, VA: IndyPublish.com, 2003.

Stanley, Thomas.
The Millionaire Mind.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000.

Stanley, Thomas, and William Danko.
The Millionaire Next Door.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Stone, Clement W., and Napoleon Hill.
The Success System That
Never Fails.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.

Templeton, John Marks.
Worldwide Laws of Life.
Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation, 1998.

Tracy, Brian.
Create Your Own Future.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Tracy, Brian.
Focal Point.
New York: AMACOM, 2001.

Tracy, Brian.
Goals!
San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003.

Tracy, Brian.
Many Miles to Go.
Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press, Inc., 2003.

Tracy, Brian.
Maximum Achievement.
New York: Fireside, 1995.

Tracy, Brian.
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002.

Tracy, Brian.
Turbo Strategy.
New York: AMACOM, 2003.

Tracy, Brian.
The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001.

Tracy, Brian.
Victory!
New York: AMACOM, 2002.

Treacy, Michael, and Fred Wiersma.
The Disciplines of Market Leaders.
Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 1997.

Walters, Dottie, and Lilly Walters.
Speak and Grow Rich.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Wiersma, Fred.
Customer Intimacy.
Encino, CA: Knowledge Exchange, 1996.

Williamson, Marianne.
A Return to Love.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

ccc_tracy_ind_260-267.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 260

Index

Abilities, identifying, 104, 115–116

Bacon, Francis, 75, 152

Absorption process, 119

Bacon, Roger, 140

Abstract intelligence, 168–169

Bankruptcies, 233

Accomplishments

Belief(s)

limits, and life, 80

changing, 7–8

and time, 110

and inner dialogue, 15–16

Achievement

law of, 82–83, 86

goals, 45–49

removing negative, 42

high achievers and, 185

self-limiting, 181

positive feeling and, 157–158

standing up for, 243

unstoppable, 42

Benevolent worldview,
see
Positive
Achieving Society,The,
118

worldview

Acres of Diamonds
, 72–73

Billings, Josh, 57

Action(s)

Bill Moyers
, 106

high performance living and, 252

Blame, 21, 29

importance of, 173

Blank slate, 2–3

lack of knowledge and, 80–81

Brainpower

plan and, 48–49

hard assets
vs.
, 138–139

positive and optimistic, 212–213

wealth and, 137

taking in real time, 69

Brainstorming, 171, 174–176

taking on current situation, 73

Bristol, Claude M., 52

values and, 225

Business,
see also
Companies

Activities, low-value, 62

activities of success, 112–115

Adaptive worldview, 144

bankruptcies in, 233

Adolescence, personality problems in, 3–4

building relationships and, 132

Adulthood

and competition, 230–231

fear of failure in, 4

crisis anticipation and, 204–205

personality problems in, 3–4

and sales, 214–215

Affirmations, positive, 186, 188–189, 191

Butterworth, Eric, 108

Age of the mind, 52

Ambition, 91

Campbell, Joseph, 106–107

Amnesia, 1–2

Capital, starting, 137–138

Anger, 21, 29–35

Career

Apple Computer, 61, 142

advancing, 122

Applied Imagination
, 174

preparing for, 206

Aristotelian Principle of Causality, 55

Carnegie, Dale, 105

Assets

Cause and Effect, law of, 47, 55

hard,
vs.
brainpower, 138–139

Chance, 116, 198

most valuable, 110

Change

Associations, benefits of, 122–123

business, competition and, 230–231

Attachment,
see
Identification in inner world, 119

Attitude(s)

knowledge and, 141

hardening of, 144

life and, 79–80

positive mental, 180

opportunities and, 54

Attraction, law of, 47, 49, 84–85, 86, 124, Character

174, 211, 212, 251

self-discipline and, 242

Auditory learner, 170–171

truthfulness and, 234–235

260

ccc_tracy_ind_260-267.qxd 6/23/03 3:39 PM Page 261

Index

➤
261

Childhood

fear of, 4

action taking and criticism in, 79

rules for success and, 22

fear of failure in, 5

Customers

and the future, 104–105

building relationships with, 132

Children, 2–5, 10, 29, 235, 237

identifying, 114

Churchill, Winston, 237

Cohen’s Law, 202

Decision making, benchmark for,

Comfort zone, 79–80, 243

184–185

Commitment

Decisions

courage and, 242

about goals, 45–46

power of, 50–51

to become rich, 253

Communication

fear of not approving, 26

interpersonal intelligence and, 166–167

wrong, 147–148

wireless, 53

Dedication, serving others and, 14–15

Communications age, 137

Dell, Michael, 168

Companies,
see also
Business

Dell Computer, 142

crisis anticipation and, 204–205

Denial, stress and, 219–220

failure of, 162

Desire

marketing new product in, 161

as antidotes to fear, 81

Compensation, law of, 133–134

talents and, 108

Competencies

Detachment, 24–25, 44

core, 102

Development, personal, 148–149, 151

demand and, 103

Dialogue, inner

Competition

beliefs and, 15–16

business and, 230–231

control of, 11–12

outperforming, 68–69

negative situation and, 216–217

thriving, 54

positive, 13

Competitive advantage, 99–101

Differentiation, 112, 113

Complacency, 79–80

Direction, sense of, 218

Computers, personal, 142, 143

Disappointment, 201–203, 215–216,

Concentration, income and, 112,

220

114–115

Discover the Power within You
, 108

Conceptual intelligence,
see
Abstract Disidentification, 24

intelligence

Disraeli, Benjamin, 97

Conditional love, 5

Dreams, 40–51, 75, 87, 196, 242, 253

Confidence, 2

Drier, Thomas, 249

desire, knowledge, and, 81

Drucker, Peter, 142, 206