Chapter 2 Play a bigger game!

So what does playing a bigger game mean? It means choosing to stretch yourself:

  • hand   to test the boundaries
  • hand   to become better
  • hand   to achieve greater things
  • hand   to be a better person
  • hand   to do things you have never done before
  • hand   to have things in your life you never thought possible.

There are some myths in today's society about playing a bigger game — some ideas that are promoted as shortcuts to winning anything and everything you want.

There is the myth about the power of positive thinking. Perhaps you have read that book? All you have to do is be positive, just be positive all the time and life is going to be great. Think positive all the time and life will turn out just the way you want it to.

That is just rubbish and I refuse to believe it. There are two things wrong with positive thinking on its own. The first is that you just cannot be positive all the ...

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