Michael Heppell - Flip It: How to Get the Best Out of Everything

MICHAEL HEPPELL

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heppell, Michael.

Flip it : how to get the best out of everything / Michael Heppell.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-62087-781-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Success--Psychological aspects.

2. Optimism. 3. Self-esteem. 4. Self-confidence. 5. Self-help techniques. I.

Title.

BF637.S8H432 2013

650.1--dc23

2013011624

ISBN: 978-1-62087-781-4

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For Bill Heppell,
the original Flip It thinker

I ve spent the last 15 years of my life studying what we can all do to get the very best out of everything. With Flip It Ive captured the essence of all that learning and distilled that experience into this simple but deceptively powerful book.

And its probably going to be the easiest book youve ever read. Every idea, technique and method can be applied by anyone, from any background, in any situation, at any time, as youll see by the many inspirational stories of people who have done just that.

Flip It offers a different, better way to think and act which, when used in the right way, will give you higher levels of happiness, confidence, creativity and success. In other words, with Flip It you can make everything better. Here are a couple of bold claims:

Flip It is broken down into several sections, each one loosely themed around an area of life work, health, family, success, creativity, etc. But dont be fooled into thinking that some chapters will be more appropriate for you than others. Your first lesson in Flip It starts right now with Think transferable. Its often tempting when you see a chapter heading to make an instant judgement about the content and whether it will be applicable to you. I wonder what amazing opportunities may have passed you by thinking like that in the past.

As you read each and every chapter you may find yourself thinking, I dont do this or I dont have that in my life. If that does happen, then Flip It, think transferable and ask, How could I adapt and apply this technique in my life right now? By doing this simple Flip youll find a gem on every page.

Feel free to dive around Flip It and read it in any order you like. Very quickly youll learn how to get the best out of each section. The next step is to move from knowing it to doing it. Understanding Flip It at an intellectual level is great but the real benefit comes from using the techniques in real-life situations.

So take action now and as you learn a Flip It tool, test it straight away. Youll be amazed at the results and very soon youll be the one who is getting the best out of everything.

You only regret the things you didnt do so do it.

S o lets begin. Flip It thinking is everywhere. At times you do it without really thinking about it. There are other times when you dont do it but probably should. When you look at the cover of this book you see this symbol:

Some people just see the cloud and immediately think its going to be terribly dull and theres a chance of rain. Others think it will be cloudy and we may get some sun. Then there are those who bank on the fact that there will be sun interspersed with white fluffy clouds. And finally there are the super positive who just see the sun and blank out the cloud altogether.

With I want to challenge your thinking on what you see, believe and think with an ultimate goal to help you get the best out of everything.

So whether you are the kind of person who tends to dwell on lifes problems and wants to discover another way of being, or a natural optimist who wants to boost their skills, Flip It has dozens of tools, techniques and ideas designed to work quickly and effectively. And theres never been a better time to learn how to be more resourceful, engage the real power of your mind and get the very best out of your life.

Lets start you off with a simple Flip and then, as you progress, well introduce new tools and techniques at various levels of complexity.

One of the most powerful tools in the Flip It toolbox is the power of intelligent questioning. The right questions can turn around any negative situation. The big question is: which questions should you ask?

Put on your best ringside announcers voice as you read this:

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the big fight. In the red corner, weighing in at an incredible 200 lbs, the most pondered word in anyones vocabulary of questions. Lets hear it for: the prince of pity, the mother of misfortune, the saint of sadness, the undisputed champion of negative questioning WHY.

And in the blue corner, weighing in at a lean, mean 140 lbs, the hero of hope, the champion of chatter, the secret of solution. Hes quick, hes quirky (and a little bit flirty), lets hear it for the contender HOW.