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1. “Any time you sincerely

want to make a change, the
rst thing you must do is to
raise your standards and
believe you can meet them”.
2. “We must change our belief
system and develop a sense
of certainty that we can and
will meet the new standards
before we actually do”.
3. “It’s not what we do once in
a while that shapes our
lives, but what we do
consistently”.
The Five Big

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1. “The three decisions that
control your destiny are: 1.
Your decisions about what
to focus on. 2. Your
decisions about what things
mean to you. 3. Your
decisions about what to do
to create the results you
desire”.
2. “By changing any one of
these ve elements—
whether it’s a core belief or
rule, a value, a reference, a
question, or an emotional
state—you can immediately
produce a powerful and
measurable change in your
life”.
3. “Everything you and I do,
we do either out of our need
to avoid pain or our desire
to gain pleasure”.
4. “It’s not the events of our
lives that shape us, but our
beliefs as to what those
events mean”.
5. “Focus on where you want
to go, not on what you fear”.
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“Any time you sincerely
want to make a change, the
rst thing you must do is to
raise your standards and

believe you can meet them”.

“We must change our belief
system and develop a sense
of certainty that we can and
will meet the new standards
before we actually do”.
“You see, in life, lots of

people know what to do, but
few people actually do what
they know”.
“In essence, if we want to

direct our lives, we must
take control of our
consistent actions. It’s not
what we do once in a while
that shapes our lives, but
what we do consistently”.
“It’s in your moments of

decision that your destiny is
shaped”.
“Not only do you have to

decide what results you are
committed to, but also the
kind of person that you’re
committed to becoming”.
“If you don’t set a baseline

standard for what you’ll
accept in your life, you’ll
nd it’s easy to slip into
behaviors and attitudes or a
quality of life that’s far
below what you deserve”.
“If you truly decide to, you

can do almost anything”.
“Making a true decision

means committing to
achieving a result, and then
cutting yourself o from
any other possibility”.
“The three decisions that

control your destiny are 1.
Your decisions about what
to focus on. 2. Your
decisions about what things
mean to you. 3. Your
to create the results you
desire”.
“It’s likely that whatever

challenges you have in your
life currently could have
been avoided by some
better decisions upstream”.
“Your Master System is

comprised of ve
components: 1) your core
beliefs and unconscious
rules, 2) your life values, 3)
your references, 4) the
habitual questions that you
ask yourself, and 5) the
emotional states you
experience in each
moment”.
“By changing any one of

these ve elements—
whether it’s a core belief or
rule, a value, a reference, a
question, or an emotional
state—you can immediately
produce a powerful and
measurable change in your
life”.
“Remember: Success truly is

the result of good
judgment. Good judgment
is the result of experience,
and experience is often the
result of bad judgment!”
“In order to succeed, you

must have a long-term
focus”.
“God’s delays are not God’s

denials”.
“Often, what seems

impossible in the short term
becomes very possible in
the long term if you
persist”.
“Remember the true power

of making decisions”.
“Realize that the hardest

step in achieving anything
is making a true
commitment—a true
decision”.
“A critical rule I’ve made for

myself is never to leave the
scene of a decision without
rst taking a speci c action
toward its realization”.
“Make decisions often and

learn from them”.
“Ask yourself, ‘What’s good

about this? What can I learn
from this?'”
“Stay committed to your

decisions, but stay exible
in your approach”.
“Know that it’s your

decisions, and not your
conditions, that determine
your destiny”.
“Everything you and I do,

we do either out of our need
to avoid pain or our desire
to gain pleasure”.
“For most people, the fear

of loss is much greater than
the desire for gain”.
“Why is it that people can

experience pain yet fail to
change? They haven’t
experienced enough pain
yet; they haven’t hit what I
call emotional threshold”.
“If we link massive pain to

any behavior or emotional
pattern, we will avoid
indulging in it at all costs”.
“It’s our neuro-associations

— the associations we’ve
established in our nervous

systems—that determine
what we’ll do”.
“Any time we’re in an

intense emotional state,
when we’re feeling strong
sensations of pain or
pleasure, anything unique
that occurs consistently will
become neurologically
linked”.
“Most of us base our

on what’s going to create
pain or pleasure in the
short term instead of the
long term”.
“It’s not actual pain that

drives us, but our fear that
something will lead to pain.
And it’s not actual pleasure
that drives us, but our belief
—our sense of certainty—
that somehow taking a
certain action will lead to
pleasure”.
“We’re not driven by the

reality, but by our
perception of reality”.
“Remember, anything you

want that’s valuable
requires that you break
through some short-term
pain in order to gain long-
term pleasure”.
“It’s not the events of our

lives that shape us, but our
beliefs as to what those
events mean”.
“It’s never the environment;

it’s never the events of our
lives, but the meaning we
attach to the events—how
we interpret them—that
shapes who we are today
and who we’ll become
tomorrow”.
“What are our beliefs

designed for? They’re the
guiding force to tell us what
will lead to pain and what
will lead to pleasure”.
“Whenever something
happens in your life, your
brain asks two questions: 1)
Will this mean pain or

pleasure? 2) What must I do
now to avoid pain and/or
gain pleasure?”
“The challenge is threefold:

1) most of us do not
consciously decide what
we’re going to believe; 2)
often our beliefs are based
on misinterpretation of past
experiences; and 3) once we
adopt a belief, we forget it’s
merely an interpretation”.
“Global beliefs are the giant

beliefs we have about
everything in our lives:
beliefs about our identities,
people, work, time, money,
and life itself, for that
matter”.
“These giant
generalizations are often
phrased as is/am/are: ‘Life
is…’ ‘I am…’ ‘People are …’.”
“If you can think of an idea

as being like a tabletop with
no legs, you’ll have a fair
representation of why an
idea doesn’t feel as certain

as a belief. Without any legs,
that tabletop won’t even
stand up by itself. Belief, on
the other hand, has legs. If
you really believe, ‘I’m sexy’,
how do you know you’re
sexy? Isn’t it true that you
have some references to
support the idea—some
experiences in life to back it
up? Those are the legs that
make your tabletop solid,
that make your belief
certain”.
“Sometimes we gather
references through
information we get from
other people, or from
books, tapes, movies, and so
on. And sometimes we form
references based solely on
our imagination”.
“The strongest and most

solid legs are formed by
personal experiences that
we have a lot of emotion
attached to because they
were painful or pleasurable

experiences”.

“If you develop the absolute
sense of certainty that
powerful beliefs provide,
then you can get yourself to
accomplish virtually
anything, including those
things that other people are
certain are impossible”.
“The most e ective way is

to get your brain to
associate massive pain to
the old belief”.
“New experiences trigger

change only if they cause us
to question our beliefs.
Remember, whenever we
believe something, we no
longer question it in any
way”.
“If you question anything

enough, eventually you’ll
begin to doubt it”.
“I’ve classi ed beliefs into

three categories: opinions,
beliefs, and convictions”.
“An opinion is something

we feel relatively certain
about, but the certainty is
only temporary because it
can be changed easily”.
“A belief, on the other hand,

is formed when we begin to
develop a much larger base
of reference legs, and
especially reference legs
about which we have strong
emotion”.
“A conviction, however,
eclipses a belief, primarily
because of the emotional
intensity a person links to
an idea. A person holding a
conviction does not only
feel certain, but gets angry
if their conviction is even
questioned. A person with a
conviction is unwilling to
ever question their
references, even for a
moment; they are totally
resistant to new input, often
to the point of obsession”.
“Someone with a conviction

is so passionate about their
belief that they’re even
willing to risk rejection or
make a fool of themselves
for the sake of their
conviction”.
“So how can you create a

conviction? 1) Start with the
basic belief. 2) Reinforce
your belief by adding new
and more powerful
references. 3) Then nd a
triggering event, or else
create one of your own.
Associate yourself fully by
asking, ‘What will it cost me
if I don’t?’ Ask questions
that create emotional
intensity for you. 4) Finally,
take action. Each action you
take strengthens your
commitment and raises the
level of your emotional
intensity and conviction”.
“The way to expand our

lives is to model the lives of
those people who are
already succeeding. It’s just
a matter of asking
questions: ‘What do you
believe makes you
di erent? What are the
beliefs you have that
separate you from others?'”
“At the end of each day I ask

myself these questions:
What have I learned today?
What did I contribute or
improve? What did I enjoy?”
“NAC is a step-by-step
process that can condition
your nervous system to
associate pleasure to those
things you want to
continuously move toward
and pain to those things
you need to avoid in order
to succeed consistently in
your life without constant
e ort or willpower”.
“We all want to change

either 1) how we feel about
things or 2) our behaviors”.
“There are three speci c

beliefs about responsibility
that a person must have if
they’re going to create long-

term change: 1) First, we
must believe, ‘Something
must change’—not that it
should change, not that it
could or ought to, but that
it absolutely must. Second,
we must not only believe
that things must change,
but we must believe, ‘I must
change it’. Third, we have to
believe, ‘I can change it’.”
“Each time we experience a

signi cant amount of pain
or pleasure, our brains
search for the cause and
record it in our nervous
systems to enable us to
make better decisions about
what to do in the future”.
“Any time you experience

signi cant amounts of pain
or pleasure, your brain
immediately searches for
the cause. It uses the
following three criteria. 1.
Your brain looks for
something that appears to
be unique. 2. Your brain
looks for something that

seems to be happening
simultaneously. 3. Your
brain looks for consistency”.
“So often we blame the

wrong cause, and thereby
close ourselves o from
possible solutions”.
“The di erence between

acting badly or brilliantly is
not based on your ability,
but on the state of your
mind and/or body in any
given moment”.
“Emotion is created by
motion”.
“Focus on where you want

to go, not on what you fear”.
“Our ability to change the

way we feel depends upon
our ability to change our
submodalities”.
“You’ve got to be in a
determined state in order to
succeed”.
“I began to realize that

thinking itself is nothing
but the process of asking
and answering questions”.
“Quality questions create a

quality life”.
“A genuine quality of life

comes from consistent,
quality questions”.
“Questions accomplish
three speci c things: 1.
Questions immediately
change what we’re focusing
on and therefore how we
feel. 2. Questions change
what we delete. 3. Questions
change the resources
available to us”.
“You and I can change how

we feel in an instant, just by
changing our focus”.
“One of the ways that I’ve

discovered to increase the
quality of my life is to
model the habitual
questions of people I really
respect”.
“The words you habitually

choose also a ect how you
communicate with yourself
and therefore what you
experience”.
“People with an
impoverished vocabulary
live an impoverished
emotional life; people with
rich vocabularies have a
multi-hued palette of colors
with which to paint their
experience, not only for
others, but for themselves
as well”.
“Simply by changing your

habitual vocabulary—the
words you consistently use
to describe the emotions of
your life—you can
instantaneously change
how you think, how you
feel, and how you live”.
“If we want to change our

lives and shape our destiny,
we need to consciously
select the words we’re going
to use, and we need to
constantly strive to expand

our level of choice”.
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into the visible—the
foundation for all success in
life”.
“All goal setting must be

immediately followed by
both the development of a
plan, and massive and
consistent action toward its
ful llment”.
“It’s not just getting a goal

that matters, but the quality
of life you experience along
the way”.
“Remember, our goal is not

to ignore the problems of
life, but to put ourselves in
better mental and
emotional states where we
can not only come up with
solutions but act upon
them”.
“We must remember that all

decision-making comes
down to values
clari cation”.

“The only way for us to have
long-term happiness is to
live by our highest ideals, to
consistently act in
accordance with what we
believe our life is truly
about”.
“Many people know what

they want to have, but have
no idea of who they want to
be”.
“Remember that your

values—whatever they are
—are the compass that is
guiding you to your
ultimate destiny”.
“Anytime you have di culty

making an important
decision, you can be sure
that it’s the result of being
unclear about your values”.
“To value something means

to place importance upon
it; anything that you hold
dear can be called a ‘value’.”
“So often people are too

busy pursuing means
values that they don’t
achieve their true desire:
their ends values”.
“The hierarchy of your

values is controlling the way
you make decisions in each
moment”.
“We must remember, then,

that any time we make a
decision about what to do,
our brain rst evaluates
whether that action can
possibly lead to either
pleasurable or painful
states”.
“Most of us have created

numerous ways to feel bad,
and only a few ways to truly
feel good”.
“How do we know if a rule

empowers or disempowers
us? There are three primary
criteria: 1. It’s a
disempowering rule if it’s
impossible to meet. 2. A
rule is disempowering if
something that you can’t

control determines whether
your rule has been met or
not. 3. A rule is
disempowering if it gives
you only a few ways to feel
good and lots of ways to
feel bad”.
“Once we design our values,

we must decide what
evidence we need to have
before we give ourselves
pleasure. We need to design
rules that will move us in
the direction of our values,
that will clearly be
achievable, using criteria we
can control personally so
that we’re ringing the bell
instead of waiting for the
outside world to do it”.
“If you ever feel angry or

upset with someone,
remember, it’s your rules
that are upsetting you, not
their behavior”.
“The ‘must’ and the ‘must

never’ rules are threshold
rules; the ‘should’ and

‘should never’ rules are
personal standard rules”.
“Design your rules so that

you’re in control, so that the
outside world is not what
determines whether you
feel good or bad. Set it up
so that it’s incredibly easy
for you to feel good, and
incredibly hard to feel bad”.
“The larger the number and

greater the quality of our
references, the greater our
potential level of choices. A
larger number and greater
quality of references
enables us to more
e ectively evaluate what
things mean and what we
can do”.
“Once again, it’s not our

references, but our
interpretations of them, the
way we organize them—that
clearly determine our
beliefs”.
“The key is to expand the

references that are available
within your life. Consciously
seek out experiences that
expand your sense of who
you are and what you’re
capable of, as well as
organize your references in
empowering ways”.
“The way we use our

references will determine
how we feel, because
whether something is good
or bad is all based on what
you’re comparing it to”.
“You are not even limited to

your own personal
experiences as references.
You can borrow the
references of other people”.
“Limited references create a

limited life. If you want to
expand your life, you must
expand your references by
pursuing ideas and
experiences that wouldn’t
be a part of your life if you
didn’t consciously seek

them out”.

“We all will act consistently
with our views of who we
truly are, whether that view
is accurate or not”.
“As we develop new beliefs

about who we are, our
behavior will change to
support the new identity”.
“If you’ve repeatedly

attempted to make a
particular change in your
life, only to continually fall
short, invariably the
challenge is that you were
trying to create a behavioral
or emotional shift that was
inconsistent with your
belief about who you are”.
The Ultimate
Success Formula
1. Decide what you want
2. Take action
3. Notice what’s working or
not
4. Change your approach until

you achieve what you want
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1. “Any time you sincerely

The Five Big

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raise your standards and

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“You see, in life, lots of

“In essence, if we want to

“It’s in your moments of

“Not only do you have to

“If you don’t set a baseline

“If you truly decide to, you

“Making a true decision

“The three decisions that

“It’s likely that whatever

“Your Master System is

“By changing any one of

“Remember: Success truly is

“In order to succeed, you

“God’s delays are not God’s

“Often, what seems

“Remember the true power

“Realize that the hardest

“A critical rule I’ve made for

“Make decisions often and

“Ask yourself, ‘What’s good

“Stay committed to your

“Know that it’s your

“Everything you and I do,

“For most people, the fear

“Why is it that people can

“If we link massive pain to

“It’s our neuro-associations

established in our nervous

“Any time we’re in an

“Most of us base our

“It’s not actual pain that

“We’re not driven by the

“Remember, anything you

“It’s not the events of our

“It’s never the environment;

“What are our beliefs

Will this mean pain or

“The challenge is threefold:

“Global beliefs are the giant

“If you can think of an idea

idea doesn’t feel as certain

“The strongest and most

were painful or pleasurable

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“The most e ective way is

“New experiences trigger

“If you question anything

“I’ve classi ed beliefs into

“An opinion is something

“A belief, on the other hand,

“Someone with a conviction

“So how can you create a

“The way to expand our

“At the end of each day I ask

“We all want to change