Chapter 5Taking Control

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas A. Edison

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So far we've been looking at how to approach the challenge, how to get your head around those things that look “daunting”, “enormous” and “impossible”. How do we perceive the challenge? Are we willing to step beyond what we know? Can we push ourselves to do more than we thought possible? These are the conversations that we can engage in when we have a following wind and things are going reasonably well. It's been that viewpoint you can take more easily when things are good.

But what happens when ...

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