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Who You Are Is Made Up Of Words

The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force. It is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your lifeThe word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.

-Don Miguel Ruiz

Who are you?

This question is perhaps the most asked and most perplexing question mankind has asked itself since grunts took on symbolic meaning and became words. Are you your name? Are you your personality? Are you the sum collection of all your memories and experiences? Who are you really?

What if who you are is a bunch of words?

Thats right, words. The basic premise of Success Talk is that you are made up of words. Words define who you are. Words are the box you live inside of. Words either expand or limit your lifes possibilities. Words control your muscles, your mood, your actions and non-actions. In short, words determine your present and your future.

The words that rattle around in your headwhether by default through past programming or because of your own careful choicesthese exact words actively create and determine your destiny.

Throughout this book, awareness of the content of your own private internal dialogue will be isolated as Success Talk Keys, fundamental self-talk understandings that are the keys that will unlock the doors that lead to increased personal success and happiness.

Change the way you talk to yourself and you will change your world!