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action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
“Simply this: destroy their negative thoughts before those thoughts become mental monsters.”
We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images. Words are the raw materials of thought.
To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.
Build castles, don’t dig graves!
The moral is this: Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present.
Remember, to bring out the best in a person, you must first visualize his best.
Your mind will create a way if you let it.
Always show positive attitudes toward your job so that your subordinates will “pick up” right thinking.
As you approach your job each day, ask yourself, “Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated? Are all my habits such that I would be glad to see them in my subordinates?”
The moral: Practice uplifting self-praise. Don’t practice belittling self-punishment. You are what you think you are. Think more of yourself and there is more of you.
To activate others, to get them to be enthusiastic, you must first be enthusiastic yourself.
Courtesy practiced in every relationship with another person is the finest tranquilizer you can use. No commercial preparation
is one tenth as effective in relaxing you as doing little things for other people.
Thinking right toward people removes frustrations and stress. When you boil it all down, the big cause of stress is negative feelings toward other people. So think positive toward people and di...
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how you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
get.” The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get.
AN IMAGE OF ME, 10 YEARS FROM NOW: 10 YEARS’ PLANNING GUIDE A. Work Department: 10 years from now: 1. What income level do I want to attain? 2. What level of responsibility do I seek? 3. How much authority do I want to command? 4. What prestige do I expect to gain from my work? B. Home Department: 10 years from now: 1. What kind of standard of living do I want to provide for my family and myself? 2. What kind of house do I want to live in? 3. What kind of vacations do I want to take? 4. What financial support do I want to give my children in their early
years? C. Social Department: 10 years from now: 1. What kinds of friends do I want to have? 2. What social groups do I want to join? 3. What community leadership positions would I like to hold? 4. What worthwhile causes do I want to champion?
When you surrender yourself to your desires, when you let yourself become obsessed with a goal, you receive the physical power, energy, and enthusiasm needed to accomplish your goal. But you receive something else, something equally valuable. You receive the “automatic instrumentation” needed to keep you going straight to your objective.
I would surely have abandoned what has become my deepest source of professional pride. I tried to think only of the next paragraph, not the next page and certainly not the next chapter. Thus, for six solid months, I never did anything but set down one paragraph after another. The book ‘wrote itself.’
