Your Erroneous Zones
Step-By-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life
Chapter OneTaking Charge
of Yourself
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal
fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
Look over your shoulder. You will notice a constant companion. For want of a better name, call him Your-Own-Death. You can fear this visitor or use him for your personal gain. The choice is up to you.
With death so endless a proposition and life so breathtakingly brief, ask yourself, "Should I avoid doing the things I really want to do?" "Should I live my life as others want me to?" "Are things important to accumulate?" "Is putting it off the way to live?" Chances are your answers can be summed up in a few words: Live ... Be You ... Enjoy ... Love.
You can fear your death, ineffectually, or you can use it to help you learn to live effectively. Listen to Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych as he awaits the great leveler, contemplating a past which was thoroughly dominated by others, a life in which he had given up con ... read full excerpt from Your Erroneous Zones ebook