Do You Want to Break Free from the Past and Live in the Present?

The Answer Could Be as Close as Your Own Mind

Everyone is scared these days by world events and forces beyond our control. But the biggest fears are the ones created by our minds about ourselves—what we can and cannot accomplish, who we can and cannot be.

Most of us allow our old patterns to control our lives, but we don’t have a clue that this is happening. The voice in our head constantly evaluates us and others and every circumstance we encounter and tells us what to do or not do, but we don’t realize that its judgments are based on our past and not always accurate.

As principal and cofounder of Westwood Financial Corp., one of the largest owner-operators of retail properties in the United States, real estate tycoon Steven Jay Fogel has learned firsthand that being wealthy provides a rich lifestyle but not the answers to all our problems.

In his book, My Mind Is Not Always My Friend (Fresh River Press, March 2010), Fogel shows you how to

• Manage your mind instead of allowing your mind to manage you.
• Let go of self-destructive ways of thinking and acting.
• Create new guiding principles that will lead you to the experience you want out of life.
• Recognize that we cannot always choose what happens but that we can always choose how we relate to what happened.

Every night our mind reboots as we sleep, and each morning we have to consciously remind ourselves that the past is in the past and all things are again possible. We must also reboot our commitment to be true to ourselves. Then we will be successful.

For more information, a copy of My Mind Is Not Always My Friend or an interview with the author, please contact Mary Ellen Gross, 858-456-0707 or sizzle@san.rr.com.