Chris Prentiss - Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

BE WHO
YOU WANT
HAVE WHAT
YOU WANT

BE WHO

YOU WANT

HAVE WHAT

YOU WANT

change your thinking

change your life

C H R I S P R E N T I S S

Power Press

Los Angeles, California

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008921111

Copyright 2008 The Prentiss Trust of June 30, 1998. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

ISBN: 978-0-943015-56-9 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-943015-64-4 (e-book)

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Note: Some of the names and details in the stories in this book have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. The information in this book is not intended as a substitute for consulting with a physician or other health-care provider. All matters pertaining to your individual health should be supervised by a health-care professional.

For those who have less
than they want

The vision to see,
the wisdom to know,
the courage to do

CONTENTS

The Price of Failure,
The Price of Success

MAKING IT YOURS

EXERCISES

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

Acting with the Knowledge That All Events
Are for Your Benefit

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

Seeing Yourself with the Attributes
of an Invincible, Powerful, Whole Person

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank my mother, Bea Christiansen, for my most unusual upbringing and for her constant message to me: You can do it!

I am also supremely grateful to Nigel J. Yorwerth and Patricia Spadaro of PublishingCoaches.com for their support, friendship, expert coaching, and editing; for shepherding this book through all of its phases to completion; and for bringing about the maximum distribution and sales of my works. Thank you for caring for my work as if it were your own. Patricia makes every writer look better than he or she is. I also thank Nigel for representing my work as my literary agent and being solely responsible for negotiating over twenty-six beautiful foreign editions of my books worldwide, and counting.

HOW TO READ THIS BOOK

The concepts, stories, instructions, and exercises in this book form a program that will enable you to discover the flaws in your thinking that have caused you to be less and have less than you could have had. This program will also help you to remove the limits you have accepted for yourself, allowing you to be who you want and to have what you want. Ive included the stories as examples of the concepts in action so you can see the principles at work. The exercises provide you with a way to put the concepts into action in your own life immediately. The exercises are of greatest importance.

Much of the information in this book will be new to you. If it were not that way, you would already be who you want and have what you want. Therefore, the following suggestions on how to read this book will be of major benefit to you. Pay close attention to this information. To achieve the greatest benefit from this program, carry out these instructions precisely.

Read slowly. Give your mind time to fully absorb the information. Speed-reading will cause you to miss part of whats here. If you find you have read a paragraph or even a sentence quickly, relax and read that part again. Find some way of reminding yourself at the beginning of each chapter that you are to read slowly. I know you are eager to get the payoff I have promised, but reading quickly will slow that process or cause you to miss it entirely.

Make certain you understand every sentence in this book. Sometimes we read words with our eyes that we fail to understand with our minds. The words in this book call for your full attention and you need to understand them completely. Use a highlighter to highlight important sentences or paragraphs, or use a pen to underline them. That will make it easier for you to go back and scan the parts you felt were important for you. I have put important words and points in italics. If you are highlighting or underlining, highlight or underline all of those words. Taking notes on what you read will also benefit you greatly.

Several hours after reading a chapter, glance through the pages again. Refresh your memory with the information in the chapter. Think about what you have read. Make the information your own.

Review earlier chapters. This will renew and increase your understanding of the concepts. Each time you read a chapter youve read before, the concepts will become clearer as you discover different meanings and new information. The clearer the concepts become, the more capable you will become and the sooner you will bring about what you want in your life.

Do the exercises. Reading this book will give you intellectual knowledge, but that is not enough. To put the intellectual knowledge to work and to receive the maximum benefits from this book, you must do the exercises. Do the exercises as well as you are able to. They are part of the heart of this book. Carry out the instructions precisely. You may have reasons that you think justify failing to follow specific instructions. Those reasons are all the samethey are all reasons for failing to follow instructions. No one reason is better than another and none of them justify not doing the exercises. You are reading this book to bring about a major change in your life. The key to doing that is in doing the exercises thoroughly and with a good heart.

Come to this book prepared to put forth your full effort. Make yourself so familiar with the concepts that they become part of you. React to life in the new ways described within these chapters. Then you will find what you seek, and you will find it more marvelous and abundant than you have ever imagined. You will be going through a major overhaul and the results will keep you smiling for the rest of your days on the planet.

REINVENTING
YOUR WORLD

Progress is impossible without change; and those who
cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I PROMISE YOU THAT BY READING THIS BOOK you will learn how to be who you want and have what you want, and youll have fun doing it. The big bonus is that you will also learn how to be happy, which is an art in itself.

There is an old saying, The more you do of what youve done, the more youll get of what youve got. That saying has merit because doing what youve been doing has brought you to this point in your life where you are who you are and have what you have. If who you are and what you have is what you want, thats perfect. Keep doing what youve been doing and youll get more of it. However, if who you are and what you have is less than or different than what you want, youll have to make some changes to get what you want.