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Success means personal prosperity: a fine home, vacations, travel, new things, financial security, giving your children maximum advantages. Success means winning admiration, leadership, being looked up to by people in your business and
Success means freedom: freedom from worries, fears, frustrations, and failure. Success means self-respect, continually finding more real happiness and satisfaction from life, being able to do more for those who depend on you.
The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it.
Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
Disbelief is negative power. When the mind disbelieves or doubts, the mind attracts “reasons” to support the disbelief. Doubt, disbelief, the subconscious will to fail, the not really wanting to succeed, is responsible for most failures.
Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
Put yourself on record now that you are going to join that select group that is getting what it wants from life.
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not supermen. Success does not require a superintellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn’t based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never—yes, never—sell yourself short.
The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.
Any training program—and that’s exactly what this book is—must do three things. It must provide content, the what-to-do. Second, it must supply a method, the how-to-do-it.
List of actions for training program
The what of your personal training program for success is built on the attitudes and techniques of successful people.
One important purpose of this book is to help you train yourself to observe, to develop deep insight into human action.
Select for special study the most successful and the most unsuccessful person you know.
1. Katie?
2. Steph
3. Colton
To be sure, it is thrilling to watch what can happen when men cooperate carefully with nature. But it is not one-tenth as fascinating as watching yourself respond to your own carefully administered thought management program. It’s fun to feel yourself growing more confident, more effective, more successful day by day, month by month. Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.
“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”
“My attitudes are more important than my intelligence.”
Don’t be a wishful thinker. Don’t waste your mental muscles dreaming of an effortless way to win success. We don’t become successful simply through luck. Success comes from doing those things and mastering those principles that produce success. Don’t count on luck for
Action cures fear.
it’s good to have an offer or two. Remember, it’s ten times easier for a man with a job to get another job than it is for someone unemployed to connect.”
And remember, hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive. *
Your brain is very much like a bank.
Negative thoughts produce needless wear and tear on your mental motor. They create worry, frustration, and feelings of inferiority. They put you beside the road while others drive ahead.
“Remember, motions are the precursors of emotions.
Confident action produces confident thinking.
body action is the result of mind action.
PUT THESE FIVE PROCEDURES TO WORK FOR YOU
The important measure of a person’s vocabulary is not the size or the number of words he uses. Rather, the thing that counts, the only thing that counts about one’s vocabulary, is the effect his words and phrases have on his own and others’ thinking.
Promise victory and win support. Build castles, don’t dig graves!
Practice adding value to yourself. Conduct a daily interview with yourself. Ask, “What can I do to make myself more valuable today?” Visualize yourself not as you are but as you can be. Then specific ways for attaining your potential value will suggest themselves. Just try and see.
First, join and meet regularly with at least one professional group that provides stimulation in your own occupational area.
Stimulation from others is excellent mind food. Second, join and participate in at least one group outside your occupational interests. Association with people who have different job interests broadens your thinking and helps you to see the big picture.
Don’t let ideas escape.
Cultivate and fertilize your idea. Now make your idea grow. Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. Read anything you can find that is in any way akin to your idea. Investigate all angles. Then, when the time is ripe, put it to work for yourself, your job, your future.
USE THESE TOOLS AND THINK CREATIVELY
The mind reflects what its environment feeds it just as surely as the body reflects the food you feed it.
But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction.
Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here’s something to remember. Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
Remember, thinking in terms of now gets things accomplished. But thinking in terms of someday or sometime usually means failure.
GROW THE ACTION HABIT
When you believe there is a way you automatically convert negative energy (let’s quit, let’s go back) into
positive energy (let’s keep going, let’s move ahead).
A problem, a difficulty, becomes unsolvable only when you think it is unsolvable. Attract solutions by believing solutions are possible. Refuse, simply refuse, to even l...
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When you hit a snag, don’t throw up the whole project. Instead, back off, get mentally refreshed. Try something as simple as playing some music or taking a walk or a short nap. Then, when you tackle it again, the solution often comes almost before you know it.
Five guideposts to help you turn defeat into victory are:
Without goals individuals just wander through life.
First,
Desire, when harnessed, is power.
Note how they, without exception, are totally devoted to their objective. Observe how the life of a highly successful person is integrated around a purpose.
to accomplish something, we must plan to accomplish something.
