The Get To Principle: How to Get Happy, Get Going, and Get To It in Life

By Ted Larkins

Unlock the secret to TRUE happiness

It's time for your mindset to get a makeover! Find out how to transform your day to day with a simple approach to stress, goal setting, and happiness. By simply shifting from a "have to" mindset to a "get to!", THE GET TO PRINCIPLE will guide you through a life changing understanding of the nature of life: that the way you think about your actions is the way life is experienced.

A simple technique that reaffirms the latest science around having a growth mindset and accomplishing goals long thought impossible — THE GET TO PRINCIPLE will shift your life to joy by:

Refocusing your state of mind

Helping you find more joy in your everyday

Breaking your cycle of negativity

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Mar 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781492694984

Ted Larkins

Ted is a keynote speaker, delivering powerful talks to companies such as Kelly Blue Book, Neudesic, and The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and is an official Vistage speaker.

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Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

Part One: How to Change I’m Awful into I’m Actually Pretty Awesome

One: The Killer of the Have To Mindset

Two: Entering a Get To Mindset

Part Two: How to Be Free of the Mind

Three: The Lens of Life—Shaping Your Reality

Four: Stepping into the Emerging Future

Part Three: How to Create Your Perfect Life

Five: You Get To Create

Six: You Get To Take Action

Seven: Ending Thought Indulgence

Eight: Be Like Yoda

Nine: The Magic of the $10 Million Mindset

Part Four: Living the Get To Life

Ten: Get To Listen to Others

Eleven: Persistence and Resistance

Twelve: Happiness Is—and Nothing More

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Back Cover

For Nia & Will

Introduction

You’re born and then you die, and in between, you Get To do this thing called life!

I’m excited. I get to write this book. Through writing, I get to share not only ideas that have percolated in my mind for years but also ideas that have yet to emerge from this unfolding, yet-to-be-experienced life. I get to be who I have become and become even more through writing. I also get to be part of who you are becoming as you read this. These words are part of the evolving you, and you get to accept, reject, and ponder the concepts and images these words convey. Every moment is like that. Every breath, every sip of water, every interaction, every moment, good or bad, becoming who you are. You get to take part in the universal urge to create and become something better than you are now by becoming the best you can be. Oh yeah, we get to, all right!

OK, OK, I went a little overboard with the Get Tos in that opening paragraph. I promise that’s not what this book is all about. Yes, you’re going to Get To throughout these pages. But this isn’t your average self-help book that scratches the surface of the human experience and creates a temporary respite from the challenges of life with some cute, catchy phrase. The Get To Principle is a jumping-off point into a mindset, a way of being that supports you in creating who you are destined to be in your life. It can be magical. And I don’t mean magical as in creating things out of thin air, but rather as in building up who you are so that things you want come into your life—almost magically.

The Get To Principle, when embraced, will lead to a deeper knowing of yourself, a look inward that creates what you have on the outside and creates lasting change. The early-twentieth-century writer James Allen wrote, It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly.

Although many of the concepts around Get To