If you can master this key ingredient - controlling your thoughts and emotions, you will not only have success with your fitness program but the results will overflow to all areas of your life, people will look to you for leadership and direction, and people will enjoy being around you.  The prerequisite is this: you must make a decision, you must choose to exercise control over this area of your life: your thought process.

Illustrations paint the best mind pictures for us.  Dr. Don Colbet in his book, What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You, tells the story of a Holocaust survivor during World War II.  He was forcibly separated from his wife, two daughters, and three sons - then he saw his family killed by machine guns right in front of his eyes.  George Ritchey, author and psychiatrist, was with the American troops who liberated the death camp survivors - including this man.  Dr. Ritchey describes this man’s life in Return From Tomorrow: “For six years he had lived on the same starvation diet, slept in the same airless and disease-ridden barracks as everyone else, but without the least physical or mental deterioration.”  This miraculous survivor had no control over his outward circumstances.  In fact, he shared the same misery inflicted on millions of Jewish victims.  What was his secret?  He told Dr. Ritchey, “I had to decide…. Whether to let myself hate the soldiers who had done this…I had seen, too often, what hate could do to people’s minds and bodies.  Hate had just killed the six people who mattered most to me in the world.  I decided then that I would spend the rest of my life, whether it was a few days or many years, loving every person I came into contact with.”  This man immediately went to work with the liberators, working fifteen to sixteen hours per day serving his fellow death camp survivors.  Dr. Colbert observed, “He had learned the secret that negative thoughts lead to negative words, which lead to negative attitudes and emotions.”2

You must remove both the negative thinking and negative talk from you life.  According to Dr. Don Colbert, in his book, Deadly Emotions, you need to consciously change your distorted belief systems.

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