Law of Control:Brian Tracy

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 “The Law Of Control. You feel positive about yourself to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your own life. Psychologists call this a sense of coherence, a sense of control. It means that when you feel you’re in control you feel happy, you feel at peace with yourself.”

“And you feel negative about yourself to the degree to which you feel you are not in control of your own life. You feel you are controlled by your bills, by your bosses, by your health, by your debts, by your family, by your obligations. When you feel that you’re not in or out of control you feel highly stressed.”

“You have an internal locus of control where you are happy and then you have an external locus of control. The internal locus of control is where you feel that you’re in charge of your own life, you make your own decisions.”

“A person with an internal locus of control says I make my own decisions, I am where I am and what I am because of myself, I’m in charge of my life.”

“A person with an external locus of control feels that other people are in charge of their life, their boss, their bills and so on.”

“We start off in the middle with neutral control and then every decision that you make is either taking you to an internal or external locus of control.”

“When you develop an internal locus of control you feel happy and strong and you’re much more positive and you’re much more creative. And that’s the goal you should be aiming for.”

“The people with a high locus of control feel really really good about themselves. They feel powerful, they feel empowered, they feel strong”

“An interesting point to remember is that you can give away your control to other people but you still are responsible.”

“Control begins with your thoughts. Your thoughts determine your feelings. And your feelings determine your actions.

“Control Your Thoughts. If you can control your thoughts you can control everything else, your thoughts are the guidance mechanism of your life. So control your thoughts.”

“Thoughts come before feelings because it is a thought that creates the feeling, it’s how you think about something that is happening in your life that triggers the emotion.”