A good book written in the 50’s is still very relevant today as the principles really haven’t changed. It is a good reminder with lots of examples to make points easy to understand. The book highlights 13 keys to your success…
1. Believe You Can Succeed and you Will
– Everyone wants to succeed. Strong belief triggers the mind to find ways. Disbelief brings doubt and failure. Need to fight negative thoughts. Think success, remind yourself you are better than you are, believe big. Look for examples of success.
2. Cure Yourself of “Excusitis”
– Your health is fine, you have the brains, you’re not too old, you’re not different. Accept the law of cause and effect.
3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear
– Fear is psychological, and real. Must work through your fears, what is the situation, what can be done to improve it. Take action, and don’t be paralysed. Feed your mind good stuff. Put people in proper perspective. Stand out.
4. How To Think Big
– Employers want forward thinking managers. Write down your 5 chief assets and the names of people who’ve succeeded without these. Be persistent, come up with different ways, think differently, use positive language, add value, follow our Mission. See what can be, not what is.
5. How To Think and Dream Creatively
– Anything that promotes change is creative thinking, no matter how small. When you believe your mind finds ways to overcome and achieve. Welcome new ideas, look to do more, listen more than talk, write ideas down, ask good questions.
6. You Are What You Think You Are
– How you think is how you act. How you act is how others react to you. Buy quality. Put good stuff into the mind and think big thoughts. Pep talks.
7. Manage Your Environment : Go First Class
– As our body reflects the food it eats, our mind reflects what goes in also. We are products of our environment. Never surrender, be discontent, want more. Listen to successful people. Watch for the ‘negators’. Go first class, buy quality.
8. Make Your Attitudes Your Ally
– How we think shows through in how we act. Have a positive attitude, all people count, be happy, serve, be enthusiastic. Praise people, share wins, share only good news.
9. Think Right Toward People
– Success depends on the support of other people. Remember names, get on with people, build friendship. Take the lead at functions. Think only good thoughts about people and success is guaranteed.
10. Get The Action Habit
– Be a doer, ideas without action aren’t enough, only action cures fear, do it now not tomorrow, be a crusader, others will join in.
11. How To Turn Defeat Into Victory
– Study setbacks, stop blaming luck, ‘experiment’, find the good in everything
12. Use Goals To Help You Grow
– Surrender yourself to your key goal, one step at a time, invest in yourself.
13. How To Think Like A Leader
– Think like the other person, be-human, think progress, take time to confer with yourself.
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