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Brian Tracy gives us a road map of how we can turn negatives into positives and live a healthy, rewarding, and contributing life.

Patricia Fripp, Past President, National Speakers Association, and author of Get What You Want

This book shows you how to let go of negatives, find the positive in every situation, and become an optimistic, high-performance person.

Jack Canfield, CEO, Jack Canfield Companies

Brian Tracy has done it again! Kiss That Frog! is a classic about turning negatives into positives. Get ready for a life-changing read.

Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic, and author of Leadership Excellence

This wonderful, uplifting book shows you how to release negatives and become a completely positive person.

Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

If your memories of yesterday are greater than your dreams for tomorrow, read this book and watch your life turn around, and experience more joy and happiness as a result.

Todd Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Time Traps

For people who really and truly want to break free of their limitations and move toward having the life of their dreams, this is the book to read! Both thought provoking and inspiringyou owe it to yourself to read this book and utilize these great teachings!

John Assaraf, bestselling author and entrepreneurial coach

Another winner from Brian Tracy! Its a handbook for personal responsibility to achieve success. Read it. Implement what you learn. Have confidence about your future.

Bill Bachrach, CSP, CPAE, author of Values-Based Financial Planning and coauthor of High-Trust Leadership

Every decade or so, an absolute gem of wisdom appears in print. Brian and Christina have cut and polished a priceless gift offering life-changing principles for success, regardless of the circumstances. They make the profound simple and the impossible doable.

Denis Waitley, author of Seeds of Greatness

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Brian Tracy
Christina Tracy Stein

Kiss That Frog!

Copyright 2012 by Brian Tracy and Christina Tracy Stein

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First Edition

Hardcover print edition ISBN 978-1-60994-280-9

PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-60994-281-6

IDPF e-book ISBN 978-1-60994-282-3

2012-1

Copyediting: PeopleSpeak

Book design and composition: Beverly Butterfield, Girl of the West Productions

Cover design: Leslie Waltzer

Author photos: Jason Wallis and Mina Neuberg

To my wife, Barbara, the light of my life, and to my wonderful childrenChristina, Michael, David, and Catherineall of whom are living proof of the high self-esteem, high self-confidence adults that people become when they receive an unbroken flow of unconditional love throughout their lives.

BRIAN TRACY

To my husband, Damon, who encourages me with his unconditional love and support, and my three children, Julia, Will, and Scarlett, who make every day an adventure full of lessons, laughter, and love.

CHRISTINA TRACY STEIN

You are here on this earth to do something wonderful with your life, to experience happiness and joy, wonderful relationships, excellent health, complete prosperity, and total fulfillment. So, why arent you living the life of your dreams already?

If you want to know the reasons for your happiness or unhappiness, success or lack of success, wins or losses, look in the nearest mirror. The quality of your thinking about whom you see in the mirror largely determines the quality of your life. If you change your thinking about yourself, you change your lifealmost immediately.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Once upon a time, according to the fairy tale, a handsome prince was turned into an ugly frog by a spiteful witch. Her curse could be broken only if he was kissed by a princess, something the witch was sure would never happen.

Once upon that same time, a beautiful princess longed for a handsome prince she could marry, but he hadnt appeared in her life. One day, while walking alone in the woods by a small lake, she saw an ugly frog who was living in the woods. As the princess sat quietly by the water, thinking about her situation and longing for a handsome prince to come along, the frog hopped up to her and spoke.

He told her that he was actually a handsome prince, and if she would just kiss him, he would turn into the prince that he had been before and he would marry her and love her forever after.