Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Time I Was Crazy 7
Chapter 2 The Day of the Talk 10
Chapter 3 Passion Is Bullshit 13
Chapter 4 Some of My Many Failures in Summary Form 16
Chapter 5 My Absolute Favorite Spectacular Failure 28
Chapter 6 Goals Versus Systems 30
Chapter 7 My System 35
Chapter 8 My Corporate Career Fizzled 41
Chapter 9 Deciding Versus Wanting 46
Chapter 10 The Selfishness Illusion 47
Chapter 11 The Energy Metric 51
Chapter 12 Managing Your Attitude 65
Chapter 13 It's Already Working 74
Chapter 14 My Pinkie Goes Nuts 76
Chapter 15 My Speaking Career 80
Chapter 16 My Voice Problem Gets a Name 82
Chapter 17 The Voice Solution That Didn't Work 84
Chapter 18 Recognizing Your Talents and Knowing When to Quit 86
Chapter 19 Is Practice Your Thing? 92
Chapter 20 Managing Your Odds for Success 95
Chapter 21 The Math of Success 101
Chapter 22 Pattern Recognition 145
Chapter 23 Humor 149
Chapter 24 Affirmations 154
Chapter 25 Timing Is Luck Too 158
Chapter 26 A Few Times Affirmations Worked 161
Chapter 27 Voice Update 163
Chapter 28 Experts 165
Chapter 29 Association Programming 167
Chapter 30 Happiness 171
Chapter 31 Diet 180
Chapter 32 Fitness 204
Chapter 33 Voice Update 2 215
Chapter 34 Luck 218
Chapter 35 CalendarTree Start-up 220
Chapter 36 Voice Update 3 222
Chapter 37 A Final Note About Affirmations 225
Chapter 38 Summary 230
Acknowledgments 233
Notes 234
Index 245