Jack Canfield's 'Chicken Soup For The Soul'

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Jack Canfield is popular for having co-authored the very successful Chicken Soup for the Soul Series. His book, the Success Principles, is a compilation of life lessons, researches, and conversations with equally successful people. He presents 64 lessons on getting from where you currently are to where you want to be.

This is a self-development guide book that espouses the belief that in order to succeed, you have to focus on succeeding. There isn't any other way. Here are a few important principles that you need to keep in mind:

Jack Canfield tells you to be responsible for your own: you make your own failure as you make your own success. It's as simple as that; you cannot blame your parents or your spouse if you become a failure because
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These are what he calls the psychological brakes in your life: negative thoughts and images about yourself and about what you can achieve. Guilt, failure, mistakes, errors, and self-doubt will get you nowhere - they are like car breaks that halt your momentum and hinder you from achieving what your full potential can achieve. When you dwell on these, you become a prisoner of your own limiting thoughts. Taking advantage of the power of your subconscious is the key and you can do this by creating positive images about yourself. You start by telling positive affirmations and working on your own habits and behavior. You cannot think positive but you act the opposite. Your actions have to be in synch with what your subconscious is thinking.
The power of visualization is always a part of the law of attraction. This system teaches that you attract what you like and what you think. Visualization teaches you to create vivid images of what you want to achieve. It teaches you to think about the specifics: how you look, what scenario you want to be in, and how you are feeling at that exact moment.
You have to take action. Successful people act on their goals. They live with passion and purpose. While positive thinking and visualization will help you create your own reality, you still have to work on it. This is how you become a success. Jack Canfield teaches in his book to be always persistent. You should never stop reaching for you goals and never stop having a purpose. That's how you become

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