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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| What They Said Was True |
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| INTRODUCTION: Why I Wrote This Book |
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| Chapter 1 – The “Problem” Isn’t The Problem |
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Poop-Colored Glasses: the source of your problems is the reality you live inside of |
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The Three Stages: Awareness, Purpose and Creation |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 1 |
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| I. AWARENESS: Understanding the invisible forces that are impacting the results you currently have. |
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| Chapter 2 – The Pitfalls of Reality |
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The Street Kid and The Apples |
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Sometimes Life Defies Logic |
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Confounded, In Spite Of Our Best Efforts |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 2 |
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| Chapter3 - The Coherence Factor: the fallacy of working harder |
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Making Fire |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 3 |
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| Chapter 4 – Frog Soup, Anyone? |
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Boiling A Frog |
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Thinking Patterns Evolve Over Time |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 4 |
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| Chapter 5 – Your Current Reality |
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Oh, You Thought YOU Were In Control, Huh? |
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The Toaster |
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The 9-Dots |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 5 |
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| Chapter 6 – The Structures & Rules of the Game of Life |
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STRUCTURES: The Playing Field |
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Important Invisible Structures In Life |
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Sometimes Invisible, Always Decisive |
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The RULES Rule |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 6 |
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| Chapter 7 – Statutory Rules: How THEY say you’re supposed to play the game of life. |
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Statutory Rules Can Change Over Time |
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Statutory Rules Are Neither Good Nor Bad |
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Categories of Statutory Rules |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 7 |
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| Chapter 8 – Strategic Rules: How YOU say you’re supposed to play the game of life. |
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The Birth of Strategic Rules |
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Criteria Influencing Strategic Rule Formation |
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The Evolution of Strategic Rules |
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Your Point of View Becomes a Filter |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 8 |
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| Chapter 9 – CONGRATULATIONS! You Have a One-Of-A-Kind Life Filter. |
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Identify Your Life Filter |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 9 |
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| Chapter 10 – Self-Deception |
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Self-Deception Is Not a Bad Thing |
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Self-Deception And Our Life Filter |
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Strategic Rules + Life Filter = Self-Deception |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 10 |
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| Chapter 11 – Why Do We Keep Doing Something That Doesn’t Give Us What We Want? |
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“Commitment” vs. “Interested In” |
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The Nature of Commitments |
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EXERCISE: Rating Your Commitments |
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What Does It Mean? |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 11 |
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| Chapter 12 – Hooked On A Feeling |
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What Are Thoughts? |
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Thoughts and Your Body |
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Reality Isn’t Something That Is Happening To Us |
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Who Is Actually Choosing Which Thoughts You Embrace? |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 12 |
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| Chapter 13 – Your Mind Creates Your Body |
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The Molecules of Emotion |
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Your Mind WILL Play Tricks on You! |
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More Hairball! |
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Suffering Isn’t The Answer. |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 13 |
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| Chapter 14 – The Super Reality |
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The Movie Theater Analogy |
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It Gets Better (or worse, depending on your point of view!) |
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66 Football Fields |
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How Do You Get Started? |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 14 |
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| II. PURPOSE: Discover a purpose for yourself that answers the call of the universe. You are here on this planet to fulfill some greatness. What is that? |
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| Chapter 15 – We’re Always Living Into Some Future |
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The Future Reaches Back |
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The Future Isn’t “Out There” Somewhere |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 15 |
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| Chapter 16 - Purpose: A Future Worth Living Into! |
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They Had a PURPOSE, But… |
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We All Have Our Examples |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 16 |
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| Chapter 17 – What Exactly Do We Mean By Purpose? |
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What Is the Perfect Natural Expression of YOU? |
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If You Have to Work At It, It’s Not Your Purpose |
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Stop Trying to Force It |
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Man’s Search For Meaning |
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Taking the First Steps to Discovering Your Purpose |
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The Journey to Your Source |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 17 |
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| III. CREATION: Create an alternate reality that builds on the passion of your Purpose. |
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| Chapter 18 – CREATION: The Doorway To The Super Reality |
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What Might You Do With Your Mind If You Didn’t Already Know What Was Happening Next? |
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The Path to Nothingness |
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The Limits of Detectability |
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What Do We Do In That Nothingness? |
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Questions To Ponder As You Create |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 18 |
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| Chapter 19 – Your Three “Selfs” |
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It’s Time To Awaken Your Super Self |
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Your Super Self Is Not From Your Current Reality |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 19 |
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| Chapter 20 – Discovering Your Super Self |
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The Forensic Artist |
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Super Self “Forensics” Exercise |
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Inventory of Strengths, Virtues & Inspirational Traits |
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CASE STUDY: The Articulation of a Super Self |
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The Final Test |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 20 |
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| Chapter 21 – The Power To Create Reality |
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We All Have The Power To Create |
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The Evolution of Reality (The Divine Comedy?) |
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It’s All In A Word |
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NORMAL Is Nothing More Than Getting What You Expect |
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The Bigger Your Life, The Bigger The Failures |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 21 |
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| Chapter 22 – YOUR SUPER SELF – The Creator of Your Life |
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The History of Compact Discs |
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A New Process |
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Have You Ever Wondered What Is Worth Getting Your Ass Kicked For? |
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You Can Only Enter a World For Which You Have The Language: How The Super Self Works |
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What Is The Language That Allows You to Enter The Super Reality? |
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The Price of Happiness |
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So, What Conversations Are You Having With Your Environment? |
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The Nitty-Gritty of Chapter 22 |
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| Chapter 23 – Follow Your Super Self |
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What Should You Create? |
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Your Super Self is Trying to Tell You What to Create. Let It In! |
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Eight Essential Parting Thoughts |
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| Chapter 24 – Welcome To Awaken Your Warrior! |
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