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A person who thinks his job is important Receives mental signals on how to do his job better; And a better job means More promotions, more money, more prestige, more happiness.
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 mind reflects what its environment feeds it just as surely as the body reflects the food you feed it.
Prolonged association with negative people makes us think negatively; close contact with petty individuals develops petty habits in us. On the bright side, companionship with people with big ideas raises the level of our thinking; close contact with ambitious people gives us ambition.
People who tell you it cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment. The opinions of these people can be poison. Develop a defense against people who want to convince you that you can’t do it. Accept negative advice only as a challenge to prove that you can do it.
Gossip is just negative conversation about people, and the victim of thought poison begins to think he enjoys it. He seems to get a form of poisoned joy from talking negatively about others, not knowing that to successful people he is becoming increasingly unlikable, and unreliable.
And when you put life in your talk, you automatically put more life in you. Just try this right now. Say out loud with force and vigor: “I feel great today!” Now, don’t you actually feel better than you did before you said it? Make yourself alive all over.
You must feel important to succeed. Helping others to feel important rewards you because it makes you feel more important.
Don’t waste time or mental energy trying to classify people as “very important persons,” “important persons,” or “unimportant persons.”
Remember, praise is power. Invest the praise you receive from your superior. Pass praise on down to your subordinates, where it will encourage still greater performance. When you share praise, your subordinates know you sincerely appreciate their value.
Put service first, and money takes care of itself—always.
Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of others.
We are lifted to higher levels by those who know us as likable, personable individuals. Every friend you make lifts you just one notch higher. And being likable makes you lighter to lift.
Take the initiative in building friendships—leaders always do.
Thoughts breed like thoughts. There is real danger that if you listen to negative comments about another person, you too will go negative toward that person. In fact, if you are not on guard, you may actually find yourself adding fuel to the fire with “Yes, and that’s not all. Did you hear . . .” type of comment. These things backfire, boomerang.
The person who does the most talking and the person who is the most successful are rarely the same person.
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 discover how wonderful, really wonderful this world is.
An only fair idea acted upon, and developed, is 100 percent better than a terrific idea that dies because it isn’t followed up.
Mr. Activationist does. Mr. Passivationist is going to do but doesn’t.
The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It’s still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.
A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction.
Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
Build confidence. Destroy fear through action.
Now is the magic word of success. Tomorrow, next week, later, sometime, someday often as not are synonyms for the failure word, never. Lots of good dreams never come true because we say, “I’ll start someday,” when we should say, “I’ll start now, right now.”
Benjamin Franklin: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
Orville Hubbard once said, “A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.”
We must have persistence. But persistence is only one of the ingredients of victory. We can try and try, and try and try and try again, and still fail, unless we combine persistence with experimentation.
human progress—our inventions big and little, our medical discoveries,
A goal is an objective, a purpose. A goal is more than a dream; it’s a dream being acted upon. A goal is more than a hazy “Oh, I wish I could.” A goal is a clear “This is what I’m working toward.”
“The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get.”
People these days are measured by the size of their dreams. No one accomplishes more than he sets out to accomplish. So visualize a big future.
Goals cure boredom.
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.
Use goals to live longer. No medicine in the world—and your physician will bear this out—is as powerful in bringing about long life as is the desire to do something.
The person who wants freedom from the habit all at once fails because the psychological pain is more than he can stand. An hour is easy; forever is difficult.
Just as a beautiful building is created from pieces of stone, each of which in itself appears insignificant, in like manner the successful life is constructed.
Remember Bob W.’s formula for helping others correct their mistakes. Avoid sarcasm. Avoid being cynical. Avoid taking people down a peg or two. Avoid putting others in their place. Ask, “What is the human way to deal with people?” It always pays—sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but it always pays.
let your action show you put people first.
There are two special things you can do to develop your progressive outlook: 1. Think improvement in everything you do. 2. Think high standards in everything you do.
the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.
Build a sell-yourself-to-yourself commercial and use it. Learn to supercharge yourself. Know your positive self.
you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.
It is not possible to achieve large success without hardships and setbacks. But it is possible to live the rest of your life without defeat.
Think Big Enough to see that defeat is a state of mind, nothing more.
Think Big Enough to see that if you put service first, money takes care of itself.
Publilius Syrus: A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave.
