how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience
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how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience
EXERCISE Write a brief time line of the major events in your life. Read over it, and see whether you’ve written a happy story or a sad one. Now rewrite it, selecting events and recounting them in ways that show you as a helpless victim (this is just to get it out of your system). Then try still another personal history, this one designed to make yo
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