When I believe I can do it,
the how to do it develops.
A person is a product of his own thoughts.
How to develop the power of belief:
1. Think Success, don't
think failure
2. Remind yourself that
you are better than you think you are
3. Believe big
The more successful an
individual the less inclined he is to make excuses
The right attitude and
one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time
What you can do to lick health excusitis:
1. Refuse to talk about
your health
2. Refuse to worry about
your health
3. Be genuinely grateful
that your health is as good as it is
4. Remind yourself
often, "It is better to wear out than to rust out."
The thinking that guides
your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you have.
Stick with one thing until it's over.
Stickability is 95% ability.
You must like everybody:
your subjects, proffessors, fellow students, etc.
Gain respect by
cooperating
Knowledge is only potential power.
Knowledge is power only when put to use
--and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
It is more important to
use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse of facts.
The ability to knot how
to get information is more important than using the mind as a garage for facts.
Be a person who can
solve problems and can think up ideas.
A fact man cannot make
up money.
To
Cure Intelligence Excusitis:
1. Never underestimate
your intelligence and
never overestimate the intelligence of others.
--It's not how many brains you've got;
but how you use your brain that counts.
--Mange your brains instead of worrying
about how much IQ you've got.
2. Remind yourself -
"My attitudes
are more important than my intelligence."
3. The ability to think is of greater value
than the ability to memorize facts.
Conquer luck excusitis:
1. Accept the law of
cause and effect.
2. Don't be a wishful
thinker.
Build confidence and
destroy fear:
All confidence is
acquired, developed.
Action cures fear.
Indecision, postponement
fertilize fear.
Hope is start. But hope
needs action to win victories.
Deposit only positive
thoughts in your memory bank.
Withdraw only positive
thoughts from your memory bank.
It is easy to forget the
unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it.
2 ways to put people in proper perspective:
1. Get a balanced view
of the other fellow-- both of you are important and have desires, problems,...
2. develop an
understanding attitude.
Doing what's right keeps
your conscience satisfied. And this builds confidence.
To think confidently,
act confidently.
You can't act devoted
for too long without feeling devoted.
We can change our
attitudes by changing our physical actions.
Confident action
produces confident thinking.
Confidence-building exercises:
1. Be a front seater.
2. Practice making
eye-contact.
3. Walk 23% faster.
4. Practice speaking up.
5. Smile big.
To think big we must use
words and phrases which produce big, positive mental images.
"Practice adding value" exercises:
1. Practice adding value
to things.
2. Practice adding value
to people.
3. Practice adding value
to yourself.
A good speaker has
knowledge of what he's going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it to
other people.
To eliminate quarrels,
eliminate petty thinking. before complaining..ask first,"Is it really
important?"
Ways to develop and strengthen our creative thinking ability:
1. Believe it can be
done.
When you believe, your
mind find ways to do.
Where there is a will,
there is a way.
Capacity is a state of
mind. How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do.
The success combination
is do what you do better (improve the quality of your output) and do more of
what you do (increase the quantity of your output).
The fellow who has
plenty of time makes an ineffective work partner.
The bigger the person,
the more apt he is to encourage you to talk; the smaller the person, the more
apt he is to preach to you.
Big people monopolize
the listening. Small people monopolize the talking.
In reaching creative
decisions, the raw materials are the ideas or suggestions of others.
Test your own views in
the form of questions--what do you think of this suggestion?...
Ideas are fruits of your
thinking. But they got to be harnessed and put to work to have value.
Harness and develop your ideas:
1. Don't let ideas
escape.
2. Next, review your
ideas.
3. Cultivate and
fertilize your ideas.
Thinking regulates
actions.
Your actions are
controlled by your thoughts.
How you think determines
how you act.
How you act in turn
determines how others react to you.
Your appearance talks.
Look important because
it helps you think important.
Look your best and you
will think and act your best.
Pay twice as much and
buy half as many.
The key to winning what
you want lies in thinking positively toward yourself.
A person who thinks his
job is important receives mental signals on hoe to do his job better. And a
better job means more promotions, more money, more prestige, more happiness.
The way we think towards
our job determines how our subordinates think toward their jobs.
Practice uplifting
self-praise. Sell yourself to yourself.
Think like important
people think.
Respect yourself.
Is this the way an
important person does it? Use this question to make you a bigger, more
successful person.
Mind food is your
environment--all the countless things that influence your conscious and
subconscious mind.
The kind of mind food we
consume determines our habits, attitudes, and personalities.
You are a product of
your own environment.
Companionship with
people with big ideas raises the level of our thinking; close contact with
ambitious people gives us ambition.
What we should do to make our future environment pay off in
satisfaction and prosperity:
Step 1. Recondition
yourself for success.
Step 2. Never surrender.
People who tell you it
cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or
mediocre at best in terms of accomplishments. Opinions of these people can be
poison.
Don't let negative
thinking people - "negators" - destroy your plan to think yourself to
success.
Study negators. Be extra
careful.
Be careful about your
source of advice.
Make it a rule toa seek
advice from people who know.
Go first class in
everything you do. You can't afford to go any other way.
How we think shows
through in how we act. Attitudes are mirror of the mind.
When our attitude is
right, our abilities reach a maximum of effectiveness and good results inevitably
follow.
Make these 3 attitudes you allies:
1. Grow the attitude of
I'm activated.
2. Grow the attitude of
You are important.
3. Grow the attitude of
Service first.
Enthusiasm can make
things 1100% better.
Develop the power of enthusiasm:
1. Dig into it deeper
(and you dig up interest).
2. In everything you do,
life it up -- "I feel great today!"
3. Broadcast good news.
How we feel is in large
part determined by how we think we feel.
Give me a good word or
none at all.
Give them a good word or
none at all.
The desire to be
important is man's strongest, most compelling non-biological hunger.
People do more for you
when you make them feel important.
It pays to make little
people feel like big people.
When you hwlp other
people feel important, you help yourself fee important too.
You must feel important
to succeed.
1. Practice
appreciation.
2. Practice calling
people by thier names.
3. Don't hug glory.
Invest it instead.
Praise is power.
Get the family on your
team. Give them planned attention.
You cannot harvest money
unless you plant the seeds that grow money.
The seed of money is
service.
"Put-service-first"
is an attitude which creates wealth.
Put service first and
money takes care of itself - always.
Think right toward
people and they will like and support you.
Success depends on the
support of other people.
In at least 9 out of 10
cases, the "likeability" factor is the 1st thing mentioned. And in an
overwhelmingly large number of cases, the "likeability" factor is
given far more weight than the technical factor.
Every friend you make
lifts you just one notch higher. And being likeable makes you lighter to lift.
