Faith, Success, Diligence, Happiness, Hope, Enthusiasm. ---- Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed. Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Change yourself and your work will seem different. Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you dont have any problems, you dont get any seeds. Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself -- so always think positively. If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done. If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. If you put off everything till youre sure of it, youll never get anything done. If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. Imagination is the true magic carpet. In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. It is a fact that you project what you are. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Its always too soon to quit! Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. Lifes blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. Its no use. I cant go on. If you do youre licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on. Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something -- only by becoming something. Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds. One of the greatest moments in anybodys developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. One person can make a difference. You dont have to be a big shot. You dont have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things. One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with whats right about it and build on that. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they havent half the strength you think they have. Such a simple thing as the giving of yourself -- giving thoughtfulness, time, help or understanding -- will trigger the cycle of abundance. The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and youll find you can. Act as if you like a person and youll find a friendship. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are. The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success. The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there. The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties. The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish. Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed. To feel good about yourself do this...start giving. Give yourself to someone in some service that you do not need to give. Just let yourself flow out to people. This will make you feel awfully good about yourself. To go fast, row slowly. Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. We tend to get what we expect. Weve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think its more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. What seems impossible one minute, through faith, becomes possible the next. When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction. You can be greater than anything that can happen to you. You are greater than you think you are. Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. When you wholeheartedly adopt a with all your heart attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor. When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. When every physical and mental resources is focused, ones power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. - Norman Vincent Peale
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