Day 1: Introduction
Rate Your Level of Thinking
Section 1: Optimal Thinking: The Next Step Beyond Positive Thinking
Day 2: Suboptimal Thinking
Day 3: What Is Optimal Thinking?
Day 4: Who Thinks Optimally?
Day 5: Take the Quantum Leap!
Day 6: Why Positive Thinking Falls Short, Part 1
1. Positive thinking Is Often Used to Suppress Negativity
2. Positive thinking Is Often No More Than Wishful Thinking
Day 7: Why Positive Thinking Falls Short, Part 2
3. There Are Varying Shades of Positive Thinking
4. Suboptimal Thinking Is Not the Mental Basis of Peak Performance
Day 8: Why Positive Thinking Falls Short, Part 3
5. If We Don't Maximize a Situation, We Don't Complete It
Day 9: Review Day
Section 2: What Does "Optimal" Mean to You?
Day 10: Use Your Whole Brain; How to Use Your Left Brain to Optimize Simple Decisions
Day 11: How to Use Your Left Brain to Optimize Complex Decisions
Day 12: Right-Brain Decisions
Day 13: What Does "Optimal" Really Mean?
Day 14: The Key to the Optimal Answer Is the Optimal Question
Day 15: Design Your Optimal Life
Day 16: Review Day
Section 3: How To Use Optimal Thinking Consistently
Day 17: Consciously Choose Optimal Thinking; Monitor Yourself
Day 18: Overcome Your Limiting Core Beliefs
Overcome Limiting Core Belief 1: I Am Not Responsible for My Life
Day 19: Overcome Limiting Core Belief 2: Something Is Wrong
Day 20: Overcome Limiting Core Belief 3: I Don't Deserve the Best in Life
Day 21: Overcome Limiting Core Belief 4: I Experience Fear
Day 22: Overcome Limiting Core Belief 5: I Can't Have What I Want
Day 23: Overcome Limiting Core Belief 6: Life Is a Struggle
Day 24: Review Day 1
Day 25: Review Day 2
PART TWO: Optimize Yourself
Day 26: Rate Your Self-Esteem, Purpose and Goals
Section 4: Achieve Optimal Self-Esteem
Day 27: Self-Esteem: What's It All About? Our Internal Voices; Optimize Your Suboptimal Voices
Day 28: How Do You Value and Rate Yourself Now? Your Assets and Liabilities
Day 29: Your Best Self, Part 1: Optimize Your Assets
Day 30: Your Best Self, Part 2: Minimize Your Liabilities
Day 31: Use Optimal Affirmations
Day 32: Visualize Your Best Self
Day 33: Marry Your Best Self
Day 34: Review Day
Section 5: Discover Your Ultimate Direction
Day 35: Your Life Purpose, Part 1
Day 36: Your Life Purpose, Part 2
Day 37: The Value of a Purposeful Career
Day 38: Ready to Commit?
Day 39: Summary of Life and Career Purpose
Day 40: Review Day
Section 6: Plan Your Best Life
Day 41: Supreme Goals and Forward Planning
Day 42: Reverse Planning, Part 1
Day 43: Reverse Planning, Part 2
Day 44: Reverse Planning, Part 3
Day 45: Make the Best Use of a Calendar
Day 46: Review Day 1
Day 47: Review Day 2
Section 7: Optimize Your Feelings
Day 48: The Value of Emotions; Overpowered by Emotions?; How to Master Disturbing Feelings
Day 49: When Feelings Are Manageable
Day 50: When Feelings Seem Unmanageable
Day 51: Optimization Signals, Part 1: Helplessness; Discomfort
Day 52: Optimization Signals, Part 2: Anxiety
Day 53: Optimization Signals, Part 3: Hurt
Day 54: Optimization Signals, Part 4: Anger
Day 55: Optimization Signals, Part 5: Disappointment
Day 56: Optimization Signals, Part 6: Guilt
Day 57: Optimization Signals, Part 7: Depression
Day 58: Optimization Signals, Part 8: Grief
Day 59: Optimization Signals, Part 9: Envy
Day 60: Optimization Signals, Part 10: Loneliness
Day 61: Review Day
Day 62: How Do You Relate to Your Feelings?
Day 63: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 1: Stream-of-Consciousness Writing
Day 64: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 2: Forgiveness
Day 65: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 3: Gratitude; Self-Confidence
Day 66: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 4: Love, Joy, and Happiness
Day 67: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 5: Optimal Affirmations and Visualization
Day 68: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 6: Alpha and Relaxation
Day 69: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 7: Meditation
Day 70: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 8: Recall Optimal Emotional Experiences; Verbalize Emotions
Day 71: Optimize Your Feelings, Part 9: Do Your Best; Optimal Questions
Day 72: Review Day
PART THREE: Optimize Others
Day 73: Rate Your Communications and Work
Section 8: Maximize Your Communications
Day 74: Suboptimal Communication; Optimal Communication
Day 75: Listen for Optimal Communication
Day 76: Nonverbal Communication
Day 77: Optimal Verbal Communication; Optimal Verbal Assertion
Day 78: Minimize Unwanted Behaviors
Day 79: Conflict Is a Part of Life
Day 80: Optimal Conflict Resolution
Day 81: How Well Do You Communicate?
Day 82: Review Day
Section 9: Optimal Thinking at Work
Day 83: A New Optimal Paradigm
Day 84: AnyBiz versus OptiBiz, Part 1: Negativity
Day 85: AnyBiz versus OptiBiz, Part 2: Wishful Thinking
Day 86: AnyBiz versus OptiBiz, Part 3: Mental Wavelengths, Performance
Day 87: AnyBiz versus OptiBiz, Part 4: Improvements versus Optimization
Day 88: Optimal Leaders and Optimal Visions
Day 89: Review Day
Day 90: Optimal Leaders and Reality, Part 1
Day 91: Optimal Leaders and Reality, Part 2
Day 92: Motivating Others to Do Their Best
Day 93: Optimize Your Leadership Characteristics, Part 1
Day 94: Optimize Your Leadership Characteristics, Part 2
Day 95: Visualize Yourself as an Optimal Leader
Day 96: Review Day 1
Day 97: Review Day 2
Day 98: Optimal Affirmations
Day 99: Optimal Questions
Day 100: Optimal Principles and A Final Word
