Contents -- Introduction: Go Pop Some Corn and Change Your Life -- 5 Secrets to Becoming an Early Popper -- Step by Step -- Secret 1. YOU ARE ALIVE. BEGIN LIVING -- Beginning the Journey from Just Being to Becoming -- Learning from the Existentialists: Our Lives Are Up to Us -- Shout to Yourself a Few Times: "I Am Alive!" -- Living Today as If Your Life Depended on It -- Using now as an Architect Building the Future, Not as an Archeologist Digging Up the Past -- The Universe Gives Us Each Moment Afresh -- Becoming Enthusiastic about Life's Possibilities Now -- Experiencing This Moment as an End in Itself -- Flowing -- What Would You Do If You Had a Little More Courage? -- Developing the Courage to Be Imperfect -- Taking Action Is Less Stressful than Procrastinating -- Anxiety Is the Distance Between Third Base and Home Plate. Go for it! -- Just Do It. Then It's Done! -- 10 Actions to Start the Early Popping Process -- What Human Becomings Take Away from Existentialism -- Secret 2. ATTITUDE IS YOUR #1 TOOL -- The Changing Attitude from Just Being to Becoming -- Learning from the Humanistic Psychologists: Live from Your Creative, Human Nature, Not from Your Conditioned Animal Nature -- Your Attitude Can Transcend Your Experiences -- Early Poppers Go Beyond Freud's Unconscious Forces, Using the Power of Their Conscious and Subconscious Minds -- Early Poppers Rise above Behaviorism, Driven from Within -- Behaviorism Emphasizes Animal Nature. Early Poppers Move from Human Nature -- Average Poppers View Us to Be Limited by Heredity and Environment. Early Poppers live from Their Higher Human Spirit -- The Secret Happy People Know: stop Blaming and Start Living -- Our Attitude Is Our Major Tool to Cope with Our Challenges -- A Positive attitude Is Three Times More Powerful than Positive Thinking -- Analyzing Your Dominant Attitude Style.

It's Not What Happens to You That Affects You. It's the Way You Look at It -- Serve as Your Own Motivator Because You Are Always There! -- You Can Dance without the Music -- 10 Attitude Modification Strategies -- What Human Becomings Take Away from Humanistic Psychology -- Secret 3. BELIEVE IN A PURPOSE. FIND A WAY! -- Creative Determination Transforms Just Being into Becoming -- Learning from the Pragmatists: Believing in a Dream Works Better than Doubting -- Ideas That Work Are True -- Believing Challenges Have Solutions Works Better than Believing There Are No Answers -- Believing Your Work Is Important Works Better than Believing It's Just a Job -- Turning Your Work Life into Your Lifework -- Moving from Your Unlimited Spirit Works Better than Moving from Your Ego -- Believing in a Purpose Larger than Yourself Gives You Strength -- Getting the Most Effective Advice in the World Free! -- You Can Only Reach the Dreams You Have -- Surround Yourself with "Can Do" People -- Building a Motivating Environment to Lift Your Spirits -- A Big Project Is Just a Bunch of Small Projects -- Growing through the Power of Perceptual Alternatives -- Becoming a Could-Be-Ness Thinker -- Creating Your Passionate Purpose -- 10 Strategies to Believe in a Purpose. Find a Way! -- What Human Becomings Take Away from Pragmatism -- Secret 4. ACCEPT WHAT IS! -- Creating Serenity, Humor, and Meaning on Your Journey from Just Being to Becoming -- Learning from the Stoics: Accept That What Is Is -- The Universe Doesn't Revolve around You, Does It? -- Reality Is Not What We Wish It to Be. Reality Is What It Is -- Reality Is Not Interested in What We Think It Should Be. Reality Is What It Is -- Reality Doesn't Choose Justice or Fairness Based on Our Thinking. Reality Is What It Is -- Be Careful What You Tell Yourself. You Might Be Listening.

The Worst You'll Ever Experience in Life Is an Inconvenience -- Becoming a Criticism Welcomer -- Rising above Comparison Thinking -- Moving from Timid or Aggressive to Assertive -- Embracing Change as a Refreshing Experience -- 10 Realistic Thoughts to Create Serenity, Humor, and Meaning in Tough Realities -- What Human Becomings Take Away from the Stoics -- Secret 5. FOCUS ON STRENGTHS -- Gaining Strength Moving from Just Being to Becoming -- Learning from the Positive Psychologists: Focus on Strengths and Potential -- Whatever You Focus on Grows -- Analyzing Your Strengths and Assets -- Getting Enthused about Yourself and Your Uniqueness -- Choosing Encouraging Rather than Praising to Build Inner-Driven People -- What Are the Qualities of the Most Encouraging People in Your Life? -- Encouragement Is the Process of Building on Strengths -- Understanding Gets Better Results than Judging -- Communicating Your Belief in People -- Noticing Efforts, Improvement, and Progress -- Developing an Optimistic Explanatory Style -- 10 Positive approaches to Living -- What Human Becomings Take Away from Positive Psychology -- A Closing Kernel of Wisdom -- Historical References -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About the Authors.