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TOPUCU Standard Workbook Lesson 4: Part 2

LESSON 4: PART 2
place in your brain, but when you take it The seventh E stands for “Enveloped.”
from thought to “Experience” you breathe This means that you are completely E TO THE 7 POWER
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air into that thought and create corrosive covered, surrounded and wrapped in the
rust in your life. excuses you’ve created for yourself. This
is the point where change becomes very
The sixth E stands for “Excuse.” Now that difficult because everywhere you look,
you’ve decided to continue back to that you see a reason why you can’t achieve.
negative behavior, you begin to make Everywhere you go, you’re reminded of In the first part of this lesson we learned “I WILL do the hard work that is necessary
excuses for why you can’t be a finisher. You why you can’t move forward. Every time the dangers of negative thoughts. We to become a finisher!”
begin to duck responsibility and blame you stand up you’re looking for the first learned that it’s inevitable that negative There are lots of books that teach amazing
everything else. Your circumstances are to opportunity to sit back down. thoughts will enter our mind, but it’s what information about the value of positive
blame. Your upbringing is to blame. Your we do with those negative thoughts that thinking, but they don’t teach you how to
past mistakes are the reason. We say things Entrance. Entertain. Examine. Enjoy. gives them power to set us back, make actually transform the way you think. As
like “I really have a challenge with school Experience. Excuse. Enveloped. These are us stumble, keep us complacent or even you know, even the most optimistic people
work” or, “Coach, I was going to get into the 7 E’s that progress through our minds as destroy us. We learned that entertaining and struggle with negative thoughts. So how do
shape this off season, but I was just so busy.” negative thoughts attempt to take hold of verbalizing those negative thoughts may champion’s battle and triumph over negative
Or, “my family has always had weight issues.” us. In Part 2 of this lesson we are going delve seem inconsequential at first, but can lead to thinking? They use tools like E to the 7
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Do we really need to go through the litany deeper into the 7 E’s and teach you more the gradual deterioration of our will to make Power. It’s simply a mental formula in which
of excuses that we humans come up with tools that will allow you to take back control positive change in our lives. There is a phrase you use the 7 E’s we talked about in Part 1
it? We can’t let our minds get to the place of your thoughts and emotions so that you which states, “What you accept, you teach.” of this lesson, to turn positive thoughts into
where we are mired in excuses. can move closer to becoming a finisher and If you accept negative, defeatist thoughts positive words and ultimately into positive
achieving a trans-formative life. you will eventually be teaching yourself how actions. This is not like the bird analogy, we
to speak those thoughts and ultimately live
them out. But if you begin to accept talked about in Part 1 of this lesson, that you
positive, victorious thoughts then you will want to swat away. This is the bird that you
NOTES: be another step closer to becoming the want to keep and nurture.

finisher you want to be. The first step is the entrance of the positive

Today we are going to learn how to use “E to thought you had in lesson one about
the 7 Power” to push you toward your goal breaking the bad habit you’re working on
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of seeing total transformation. throughout this Starter Program.
Now entertain and think of your plan and
Just as negative thoughts enter your mind,
so do positive thoughts. But do you entertain how you’re going to accomplish it.
“I can do it” thoughts? Do you speak positive Think of the positive results that will come
things to yourself? Instead of thinking, “I’ll of this transformation. Now continue to
never finish this schoolwork” start thinking entertain the positive “I can do it” thoughts
to yourself, “I WILL finish this schoolwork.” over and over.
Instead of thinking, “I’m overweight and Then start examining what life would be
out of shape,” start thinking to yourself, “I like if you actually moved from this mental
WILL lose weight and get in shape.” Instead exercise to actually doing this thing. Would
of thinking, “I’ll never get ahead in life,” you do better in school? Would you be a
start applying the motivation formula and more valuable employee? Might you even
thinking, “Yes, I WILL get ahead in life!” Start dare to start your own company? Would you
thinking, “Yes, I CAN do the hard work that is be getting in shape and seeing that person
necessary to increase my odds of success!” in the mirror you always wanted to be?

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