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At the core of how other people treat you is how you feel about yourself. I'm talking about more than self-esteem, I'm talking about taking control of who you are. You may believe your mindset is too hard to change or that old habits are too hard to break, but if you're patient with yourself, it's really not as hard as you think.

The first step is the most important. Think of the foundation of a home. Everything else rises upon it. If you lay a sturdy foundation, you control the stability of a home. Similarly, if you lay the proper foundation for who you are, then your life falls into place as well.

How do you create this foundation for success, happiness, and harmonious relationships? You might think it will be difficult, but really it's quite simple. But if you skip this step, you could flounder your whole life.

Everything hinges on you getting clear about who you want to be and your core values. Once you get clear on WHO you want to be, write it down in a positive statement, and memorize that statement. This action alone will set in motion a chain of events that will draw to you all the knowledge, people, and events to make it happen. It doesn't matter how far you currently are from the ideal. That doesn't matter any more than not having roofing shingles matters when you're laying the foundation of a house.

Once you lay the foundation, the walls will go up and you will start to become the ideal person you envisioned on paper. As you become the ideal you, you change the way people perceive you, and thus the way they treat you. You start getting positive results instead of negative ones.

Sixteen years ago my life felt out of control, unbalanced and like I was going in a million directions -- none of which were very effective. I took out some paper and a pen and jotted down 5 headings that represented different roles I filled in life:

• Daughter of God
• Wife
• Mother
• Friend
• Business person

Then I wrote down the type of person I'd like to be in each aspect of my life: how I would act and be if I were the ideal wife, mother, friend, etc. Once I had these written, I looked for the commonalities between each area and created one consolidated mission statement for my life.

I wrote it as a positive present-tense statement . . . "I am a daughter of God who . . ."

After writing it down and polishing it, I set it to memory. I repeated it daily in the beginning, and compared my decisions against it. If something fit with my mission, I did it. If it was out of alignment with it, I didn't do it.

But over time, I basically forgot about it. About four years passed and then in a conversation with a friend, I mentioned I had a mission statement. She wanted to hear it. As I quoted it from memory, I realized I had become the person described in the statement. Even she could see that I fit the description. As more years passed, I've pulled this mission statement to mind and each time I do, I marvel at this joyous journey that continues to mold and shape me into the person I envisioned 16 years ago.

Of all the things I could tell someone to do to make lasting effective changes in their life, this is probably the simplest and most powerful. If you haven't done this before, I challenge you to do so. Don't forget the all-important steps of writing it down and memorizing it. You need to know it like the back of your hand... and be able to call it to memory at any time. Make it a part of you and watch miracles occur.

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