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The Magic Of Thinking Big David J Schwartz, Ph.D.

Success is determined not so much by the size of one’s brain as it is by the size of one’s thinking

Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.

 

“As one thinketh in his heart, so is he”

“There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so”
Life is too short to be little

Believe, really believe you can move a mountain, and you can.

Belief, the “I’m positive I can” attitude generates the power, skill and energy needed to do. When you believe I can do it, the HOW to do it develops.

Belief triggers the power to do.

 

You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.

We can’t do much to change the amount of native ability, but we can certainly change the way we use what we have.

Knowledge is power – when you use it constructively.

Knowledge is only potential power. Knowledge is power only when put to use – and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

We don’t become successful simply through luck. Success comes from doing those things and mastering those principles that produce success.

Just concentrate on developing those qualities in yourself that will make you a winner.

 

Yes fear is real. And we must recognise it exists before we can conquer it.

Most fear today is psychological.

Fear is success enemy No. 1. Fear stops people from capitalising on opportunity. Fear closes your mouth when you want to speak.

All confidence is acquired, developed. No one is born with confidence.

Indecision, postponement, on the other hand fertilises fear, ACTION CURES FEAR!

No one ever does anything worthwhile for which he is not criticised.

Remember, hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

Successful people specialise in putting positive thoughts into their memory bank.

Don’t build mental monsters. Refuse to withdraw the unpleasant thoughts from your memory bank. When you remember situations of any kind, concentrate no the good part of the experience, forget the bad.

Your mind wants you to forget the unpleasant. If you will just cooperate, unpleasant memories will gradually shrivel and the teller in your memory bank cancels them out.

So, if the other fellow is basically like me, there’s no point being afraid of him!

To think confidently, act confidently.

Confident action produces confident thinking. So to think confidently, act confidently. Act the way you want to feel.

Be a ‘front seater’. Sitting up front builds confidence. Sure you may be a little more conspicuous in the front but remember there is nothing inconspicuous about success.

Walk 25 per cent faster. Average people have the ‘average walk’.

Smile big!

& Remember ACTION CURES FEAR!

 

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches or pounds, or college degrees, or family backgrounds, they are measured by the size of their thinking.

You’re bigger than you think. Think as big as you really are. Never, never, never sell yourself short.

 

We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images.

 

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big we must use words and phrases which produce big, positive mental images.

Use big, positive cheerful words and phrases to describe how you feel.

Become known as a person who always feels great. It wins friends. When you and someone else are discussing an absent third party, be sure you compliment him with big words like “He’s a really fine fellow”.

Use positive language to encourage others. Everyone you know craves praise. Praise, sincerely administered, is a success tool.

Use positive words to outline plans to others.

Promise victory and watch eyes light up. Promise victory and win support.

Big thinkers train themselves to see not just what is, but what can be!

Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. A big thinker always visualises what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present.

It’s repeat business that makes the profit.

How blind can we be? See what can be, not just what is!

It isn’t what one has that’s important. Rather, it’s how much one is planning to get that counts.

Remember to bring out the best in a person, you must first visualise his best.

Ask “What can I do to make myself more valuable today?” Visualise yourself not as you are but as you can be.

Big thinkers see themselves as members of a team effort as winning or losing with the team, not by themselves. They help in every way they can, even when there is no direct and immediate compensation or other reward.

To eliminate quarrels, eliminate petty thinking.

Keep your eyes focused on the big objective. IN selling, the big objective is winning sales, not arguments. In marriage the big objective is peace, happiness, tranquillity, not winning quarrels or saying, “I could have told you so”. In working with employees, the big objective is developing their full potential, not making issues out of their minor errors.

It is much better to lose a battle and win the war than to win a battle and lose the war. Resolve and keep your eyes on the big ball.

Ask “Is it really important” Is it important enough for me to get all worked up about?

 

Don’t sell yourself short. Concentrate on your assets. You’re better than you think you are.
Use big, bright, cheerful words. Use words that promise victory, hope, happiness, and pleasure.
Stretch your vision. Practice adding value to things, to people and to yourself.
Think, really think your present job is important.
Think above trivial things. Focus your attention on big objectives. Before getting involved in a petty matter, ask yourself “Is it really important?”
GROW BIG BY THINKING BIG
 

Believe it can be done. To do anything, we must first believe it can be done. When you believe, your mind finds ways to do.

Believing something can be done paves the way for creative solutions. Belief releases creative powers. Believe, and you’ll start thinking – constructively.

Your mind will create a way if you let it.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way!

Average people have always resented progress.

Become receptive to ideas. Welcome new ideas.

 

Successful people like successful businesses live with this question, “How can I improve the quality of my performance? How can I do better?”

 

The successful person doesn’t ask, “Can I do it better”, He knows he can! So he phrases the question “HOW can I do better?”

 

Capacity is a state of mind.

Ideas of others help spark your own ideas so your mind is more creative.

Your ears are your intake valves. There is no limit to what we can learn by asking and listening.

 

Encourage others to talk. There is no surer way to get people to like you than to encourage them to talk to you! Concentrate on what the other person says. Listening means letting what’s said penetrate your mind.

Don’t let ideas escape – write them down!

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better (improve the quality of your output) & Do more of what you do (increase the quantity of your output.)

 

Others see in us what we see in ourselves. We receive the kind of treatment we think we deserve.

How you think determines how you act.

How you act in turn determines

            How others react to you!

 

How you look on the outside affects how you think and feel on the inside.

 

You are a product of your environment.

As children all of us set high goals.

 

Remember people who tell you it cannot be done, almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment. Opinions of these people can be poison.

How we think is directly affected by the group we’re in. Be sure you’re in the flock that thinks right.

Often the remarks made in your direction are merely a projection of the speaker’s own feeling of failure and discouragement.

 

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Results come in proportion to enthusiasm applied.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

Put service first and money takes care of itself.

Always give people more than they expect to get.

 

Success depends on the support of other people.

Take the initiative in building friendships – leaders always do.

The most important person present is the one person most active in introducing himself.

Be like the successful, go out of your way to meet people.

 

Don’t be afraid to be unusual.

 

Don’t be a conversation hog. Listen, win friends, and learn!

 

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win!

 

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.

Build confidence, destroy fear, through action.

People that get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.

Now is the magic word of success.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today!

Remember, thinking in terms of now gets things accomplished. But thinking in terms of someday or sometime usually means failure.

 

Salvage something from every setback.

 

Defeat is only a state of mind, and nothing more.

 

If you lose, learn.

Stay with your goal. Don’t waver an inch from it. But don’t beat your head against a wall. If you aren’t getting results, try a new approach.

 

Tell yourself, There IS a way! All thoughts are magnetic.

There is a way to solve this problem.

It’s believing there is a way that is important.

When you believe there is a way, you automatically convert negative energy into positive energy. Refuse, simply refuse to even let yourself say or think that it’s impossible.

 

Goals are essential to success as air is to life. No one ever stumbles into success without a goal.

The important thing is not where you were or where you are, but where you want to get.

We can and should plan 10 years ahead. Without goals, we cannot grow.

Before you start out, know where you want to go.

Successful people have their eyes focused on a goal, and this provides energy.

Energy increases, multiplies, when you set a desired goal and resolve to work toward that goal.

To accomplish something, we must plan to accomplish something.

You will accomplish only what you plan to accomplish.

Progress is made one step at a time.

Will this help take me where I want to go? If the answer is no, back off, if yes, press ahead.

Building new positive habits and destroying old negative habits is a day-by-day process.

Prepare to detours in stride.

The biggest and most rewarding kind of investment is self-investment, purchasing things which build mental power and proficiency. We must invest in ourselves. We must invest to achieve our goals.

When you let your goal absorb you, you’ll find yourself making the right decisions to reach your goal.

A detour simply means another route. It should never mean surrendering the goal.

 

The main job of the leader is thinking. The best preparation for leadership is thinking.

What would I think of this, if I exchanged places with the other person?

What is the human way to handle this?

Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress. Think improvement in everything you do. Be sure the master copy is worth duplicating.

Spend time alone just for thinking.

Expect to be sniped at. It’s proof you’re growing.

You never gain anything from an argument, but you always lose something.

 

Defeat is a state of mind, nothing more.

 

There is room for doing everything better.

 

Think big enough to see that if you put service first, money takes care of itself.

 

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

 

BOOK Napoleon Hill Success Books

 

Self Discipline

Control of your mind is pivotal to your personal initiative, positive mental attitude and controlled enthusiasm.

Self discipline is the process that ties all these efforts together.

 

You must control your emotions and learn to think before you act.

 

Positive Emotions:                                      Negative Emotions:

1.Love                                                 1.Fear

2.Sex                                                  2.Jealousy

3.Hope                                                3.Hatred

4.Faith                                                4.Revenge

5.Enthusiasm                                        5.Greed

6.Loyalty                                             6.Anger

7.Desire                                               7.Superstition

 

Your self discipline will control your emotions and balance your reason.

Four important areas.

1.Appetite

Too much food, drink and other harmful substances can shorten your life and sap your energy.

2.Positive Mental Attitude

Self discipline ensures that you use your mental attitude to attract the things you want and repel the things you don’t want.

3.Time

Some people waste enough time in gossip alone to earn them all the luxuries they envy.

Time is your most precious asset, you must spend it under strict self discipline.

4.Definiteness Of Purpose

This is the first step in self discipline.

Nothing can help get where you are going if you have not made up your mind where you want to go.

 

Things You Cannot Discipline:

1.Infinite Intelligence

You must discipline yourself to receive and act on its wisdom.

2.Subconscious

Acts in response to stimulus from your emotions.  You can control your emotions.

3.Anticipation

Your Mastermind Alliance will begin to connect more quickly with common ideas.

4.Senses

You can to an extent train your senses, but they are easily fooled.  Apply reason.

 

The greatest manifestation of self discipline is the strength of your will.

 

Train your will with constant, consistent and ethical exercise.

 

 

A Positive Mental Attitude

A positive mental attitude is the single most important principle of the science of success.  Everything you do will depend on it.  You can only get the maximum benefit from the other sixteen success principles by understanding and employing PMA.

 

At birth you are clutching two sealed envelopes. One is ‘Rewards’, a list of benefits you will enjoy by taking possession of your own mind and ‘Penalties’, a list of consequences that will befall you if you neglect controlling your mind and do not direct it towards a worthwhile goal.

 

If you do use a muscle it will wither and become useless, the powers of your mind will do the same thing, your brain and your life will become subject to every passing influence unless you fix your mind on the object of your desire and act upon a plan for attaining it. ‘Success attract success while failure attracts failure’.

 

The Rewards of a Positive Mental Attitude:

1.Success Consciousness                                    2.Sound Health                          3.Financial Independence

4.A labour of love                                               5.Peace of mind                         6.Applied faith, no fear

7.Enduring friendships                            8.Longevity and balanced life      9.Immunity from self limits

10.Wisdom to understand yourself and others

 

Penalties of a Negative Mental Attitude:

1.Poverty and misery                             2.Mental and physical ailments    3.Self limitations

4.Fear and the consequences                  5.Hatred of your labour/job         6.Many enemies, few friends

7.Worry                                                 8.A victim of all negatives                       9.Weak willed

10.A wasted life

 

How to develop a Positive Mental Attitude:

Recognise that your mental attitude is the ‘only thing’ you have complete control over.

Realise, and prove to yourself, that every adversity, sorrow or defeat, contains the seed of an equivalent benefit.

Learn to close the door of your mind on all past failures.

Find out what you want most out of life and go after it. Help others acquire their dream.

Select the person, who in your opinion, is the finest person in the world, past or present, make him/her your pacesetter for your life, emulating him/her in every possible way.

Determine what resources you need and set up a plan to acquire them

Form the habit of saying something or doing something ‘every day’ that will make someone else feel better.

Ascertain what you like best to do and do it with all your heart and soul.

Help other people solve their problems and in doing so solve your own.

Take an inventory of every asset you possess. Your mind is your greatest asset, use it to shape your destiny.

Communicate with anyone you know you have offended and offer sincere apologies.

Break bad habits, get outside help if needed, don’t let your pride stand in your way.

Understand that ‘nobody can hurt you, make you angry or frighten you without your full cooperation.

Occupy your mind with the things you want, so there is no time to think about the things you do not want.

Give thanks for the many things you already have.

Keep your body in shape to avoid ailments and help you to stay alert.

Create a mastermind alliance with others dedicated to the principles of success.

Abstain from negative conversations and gossip.

Believe in the people you associate with, and recognize that if they are not worthy of your belief, you have the wrong associates.

 

The Two Percent that Succeed:

1.Seventy percent of people go through life ‘wishing’ they could succeed.

2.Ten percent develop their wishes into a desire.

3.Eight percent develop their wishes into hopes.

4.Six percent develop their hopes into belief.

5.Four percent develop their hope into faith.

6.Two percent develop a plan and apply their faith with a Positive Mental Attitude.

 

Join the Two Percent Club:

1.Adjust yourself to other people’s state of mind   2.Ignore trivial circumstances in your people relations

3.Establish control of your mind each day             4.Learn to sell yourself

5.Develop a hearty laugh                                                6.Find the seed of benefit in all your past setbacks

7.Focus on what you ‘can do’ in a given task                     8.Convert all unpleasant things into opportunities

9.Remember no one can win all the time              10.Look on life as a continual learning process

11.Remember all thoughts released come back x n           12.Avoid negative people

13.Exercise the positive side of your nature                      14.Recognise that prayer will bring the best results

 

Personal Initiative

 

Personal initiative is absolutely necessary if you are going to realise your goal.

It will bring you advancement attention and opportunity.

 

Major Attributes of Personal Initiative

1.The adoption of a definite major purpose

2.The motivation to act continuously in pursuit of that purpose

3.A mastermind alliance to acquire the power to attain that purpose

4.Self reliance

5.Self discipline

6.Persistence, based on the will to win

7.Well developed imagination, controlled and directed

8.The habit of prompt, definite decision making

9.The habit of basing opinions on known facts, not guesswork

10.The habit of going the extra mile

11.The capacity to generate enthusiasm at will and control it

12.A well developed senses of details

13.The capacity to concentrate attention on one task at a time

14.Assuming full responsibility for one’s own actions

15.Patience with friends and associates

16.Recognising the merits and abilities of others

17.A positive mental attitude at all times

18.The capacity for applied faith

19.The habit of following through

20.Dependability

 

The important thing for you is to identify these characteristics in yourself, as you are now and think about how you can increase and strengthen them.

 

Personal Initiative:

-Is Contagious

-Succeeds where others fail

-Creates work

-Creates opportunity

-Creates the future

-Creates advancement.

 

Putting Personal Initiative to work.

The time to begin exercising your Personal Initiative is the moment you decide upon your major purpose.  Begin creating your plan of action and start assembling your mastermind alliance.

 

It is better to act on a plan that is still weak than to delay acting at all.  Procrastination is the enemy of Personal Initiative.

 

Ignore the doomsayers and seek out skilled experts  Remember that ‘free advice’ from non qualified people is worth exactly what you paid for it. 

 

 

 

Establish A Mastermind Alliance

 

Built of two or more minds working actively in perfect harmony towards a common definite purpose.

 

Lets you appropriate and use the experience, training, and knowledge of other people as if it were your own.

 

No one has ever attained outstanding success in anything without applying the Mastermind principle.

 

All members of the alliance must be very clear of the objective and be willing to follow clear directions to work as a team.

 

Step 1: Determine your purpose

 

Step 2: Select the members of your alliance

Two essential qualities:

1. The ability to do the job (do not select people merely because you like them or know them)

2. The ability to work in a spirit of harmony with others (personal ambitions must be subordinate to the fulfillment and successful achievement of the alliance)

 

Step 3: Determine your rewards

Determine at the outset what the rewards will be (recognition, wealth, love, freedom)

Recognition and self expression are just as important as money to many people.

 

Step 4: Set a time and place for meeting

Your alliance must be active to be effective.

Establish a place and time for regular meetings to measure progress and deal with any issues.

 

Maintaining Your Alliance

Confidence: Reliance or trust based on loyalty, confidentiality, activity and results.

 

Understanding: All members must possess complete knowledge of a situation or proposition the alliance has to deal with.

 

Fairness and Justice: Each member must agree at the outset on the contribution they will make.

 

Courage: The more the minds of the alliance are linked together, the greater the power and the more resistance can be overcome.

 

Form a Mastermind Alliance with Yourself

Work positively with the ‘other you’.

 

Use affirmations, take charge of your own mind and focus on the solution, rather than the problem.

 

Cultivate Mastermind Alliances Wherever You Can

In your marriage and family.

 

In you education, books, tapes, functions, videos, Internet and association.

 

 

Going The Extra Mile

Cannot be put into practice in a few easy steps.  Instead it is a state of mind that you must develop.

 

The Law of Increasing Returns

The quantity and quality of extra service you render will come back to you greatly multiplied.

Like planting a single seed of wheat and reaping many grains of wheat.

Extra service must be done with the right mental attitude.

 

The Law of Compensation

Ensures that everything you do will bring you something you expect.

If you are doing more, ask yourself why the Law of Compensation does not seem to be working.

Most people have no definitive purpose other than  receiving a paycheck, so no matter how hard they work, the wheel of fortune goes right by them, because they are not expecting anything else.

 

Gaining Favorable Attention

Distinguish yourself from the crowd.

 

Become Indispensable

Make yourself so useful that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to replace you.

 

Self Improvement

Going the extra mile means you strengthen your ability to do your job and do it well.

 

Opportunity

Going the extra mile is a way of writing yourself an insurance policy against the fear of poverty, against the fear of want, and against the competition from those who will only go halfway.

 

Favorable Contrast

Puts the spotlight on you.

People are always making comparisons and we all notice people that are different.

 

Pleasing Attitude

When you have an attractive personality, you can get almost anyone to behave towards you exactly as you want.

Treat other people as you wish to be treated.

 

Personal Initiative

Doing what needs to be done without being told.

 

Self Confidence

Going the extra mile builds your conviction that you are doing what you are doing is good and right.

 

Overcoming Procrastination

 

The Extra Mile Formula

Q1+Q2+MA=C

Quality+Quantity+Mental Attitude=Compensation

 

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is power. 

With faith it can transform adversity, failure and temporary defeat into action.

 

The Benefits of Controlled Enthusiasm:

1.Increase the intensity of your thinking and imagination

2.Acquire a pleasing and convincing tone of voice

3.Reduce the drudgery of your work

4.Have a more attractive personality

5.Gain self confidence

6.Strengthen your mental and physical health

7.Build your personal initiative

8.Overcome physical and mental fatigue more easily

9.Spread your enthusiasm to others

 

Enthusiasm stimulates your sub conscious mind in much the same way as PMA does.

 

Dangers of Uncontrolled Enthusiasm:

1.Can cause you to monopolize the conversation while you talk about yourself

2.May cloud your judgment

3.May find expression in the wrong things

 

How to develop Controlled Enthusiasm:

1.Adopt a definite purpose                                2.Write out a clear statement of purpose

3.Back your purpose with a burning desire            4.Set to work immediately

5.Follow your plan accurately and persistently      6.Change the plan only if necessary to win

7.Ally yourself with other whose aid you need       8.Keep away from joy killer and naysayers

9.Devote some time to your plan every day          10.Sell yourself on your plan, affirmation

11.Keep you mind positive at all times

 

To be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic!

 

Share your enthusiasm with your Mastermind Alliance.

 

Building, demonstrating and sharing enthusiasm is a perfect manifestation of the moral principles behind the science of success.

 

When you deliver your work with enthusiasm you are already going the extra mile.

 

You create a success consciousness around you that inevitably affects others for the better.

Definiteness of Purpose

 

Your progress towards success begins with a fundamental question: Where are you going?

 

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement, and its lack is the stumbling block for 98 out of every 100 people simply because they never really define their goals and start towards them.

 

The difference between a wish and a ‘burning desire’ is crucial.

 

Everyone wants the better things in life, money, fame, respect, but most people never go beyond just wishing for them.

 

Definiteness of purpose develops self reliance, personal initiative, imagination, enthusiasm, self discipline and concentrated effort.

 

DOP encourages you to specialize and will attract you to specialized knowledge.

 

You will begin to budget time and money to lead you to your DOP.

 

Having a DOP makes you alert to opportunities related to your major purpose.

 

It will make decision making easier (successful people make decisions quickly and firmly).

 

Your DOP develops confidence in your own integrity and character.

 

The greatest benefit is that it opens your mind to Faith and success consciousness.

 

You focus on success and refuse to accept the possibility of failure.

 

Any dominating idea, plan or purpose held in your conscious mind through repeated effort and words (with emotion) is taken over by your subconscious and acted upon.

 

The subconscious mind is like a car, it has the power, you have to release and steer it.

 

The Sub receives any image transferred to it like a camera, correct focus requires a clear DOP.

 

You must write out your DOP and read it out loud many times a day.

 

1. Write out a clear statement of what you desire the most, the one thing or circumstance which, after you obtain it, would in your opinion make you successful

2. Write out a clear outline of the plan by which you intend to attain this objective and clearly state what you intend to give in return

3. Set a definite time limit within which you intend to acquire the object of your definite purpose

4. Memorise what you have written and repeat it many times daily as a prayer. End the prayer by expressing gratitude for having received that which your plan calls.

 

Definiteness of purpose makes the word impossible obsolete. It is the starting point for all success.

 

Form a Mastermind alliance and go for it!

 

 

Accurate Thinking

Think of your mind as a piece of land.  Through diligent, planned work, it can be cultivated into a beautiful and productive garden.

Or it can lie fallow, overrun by weeds sprouting from seed carried by passing birds and the wind.

Your thoughts are the only thing you have complete control over.

An unknown paperhanger used his thoughts to control half of Europe and terrify millions of people.  Adolf Hitler found the opportunity to use his power so destructively because so many other people failed to use theirs constructively.

 

The Thinking Process

Accurate thinking is based on two types of reasoning:

1. Induction, the act of reasoning based on experience and experimentation from which conclusions are drawn.

2. Deduction, specific conclusions are based on general logical assumptions.

 

Every time you throw a rock through a window, the window breaks while the rock remains the same.  Repeated experiments cause you to reason inductively that the glass fragile and the rock is not.

From this inductive reasoning, you can proceed to deductive reasoning, which would suggest to you, among other things, that other non fragile objects, baseball/hammer/chair, would also break the glass or that these objects might also penetrate other fragile things like paper. 

Your reasoning in this case is limited as you have not accounted for many variables.  For example a fragile object (bottle) could also break the window or a fragile object (cloth) would simply collapse around the thrown object.

Two important steps to be an accurate thinker:

1. Separate facts from opinions, fiction, unproved hypothesis and hearsay

2. Separate facts into two categories, important and unimportant

Everybody except accurate thinkers has an overabundance of opinions, and these are usually worthless.

You cannot accept or offer opinions unless they are based on facts or a sound hypothesis about the facts.

Newspaper, TV, gossip and rumour are often unreliable sources from which to procure facts.

 

Techniques for Evaluation  

You must scrutinize every bit of information you encounter. 

When you read a book, you should ask:

1. Is the writer a recognized authority on the subject?

2. Did the writer have a motive in writing the book, other than imparting information?

3. Does the writer have a profit interest in the subject covered?

4. Is the writer a person of sound judgment or a fanatic?

5. Are there easily accessible sources to verify the writer’s statements?

6. Do the writer’s statements harmonize with common sense and experience?

 

This process of analysis can also be applied to many other situations where information is being presented to you, for example in this document you are reading.

 

The source of your thought habits  Your initial thought habits come from two sources, both hereditary:

1. Physical heredity.  You may be born with a predominantly rigid or free floating thought process (left or right brained).  Accurate thinking can modify, strengthen and direct both qualities.

2. Social heredity.  Your environmental influences, education and experience.  Your thinking is most influenced by these things.

Most people embrace a religion, vote and purchase automobiles because of the influence of those nearest to them, rather than a process of accurate thought.

 

Two Big Mistakes

1. Credulousness, the habit of believing on the basis of little or no evidence

2. A tendency to disbelieve anything you do not understand

 

Controlled Habits

Your thoughts are the ‘only’ thing over which you can exert complete control.

Because your mind is very subject to the dominating influences of your environment, you ‘must’ take control over those influences.  Your success depends on the strength and quality of your controlled habits.

Think of your mind as a photographic film.  Film registers any object reflected on it.  You, the photographer, select the image, adjust the lens, manipulate the light and shutter speed.

For your mental film, the subject of your composition is your definitive purpose.  You frame it as you choose, illuminate it with the fire or your burning obsession, and expose your mind to it repeatedly.

The repeated reflection of the light of your burning obsession, which springs from your emotions, will also register this image on your subconscious, which will work, without your knowledge, to bring the image to fruition by inspiring you, through your imagination, with ideas and plans for attaining your purpose.

Your subconscious cannot deposit a new car in your driveway or ten thousand dollars in your bank account.  Accurate thinking requires persistent action in applying these ideas and the principles of success.

Accurate thinking depends heavily on several other principles of success, definiteness of purpose, self discipline, prompt decision making and a positive mental attitude.

The small minority of accurate thinkers has always been the hope of humanity, for they are the pioneers in whatever they do.  

 

A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback

 

In every life there comes a time

A minute when you must decide

To stand up and live your dreams

Or fall back and live your fears

In that minute of decision

You must grasp the vision

And seize the power

That lies deep inside of you!

Then you will see

That dreams really can and do come true

And that all things truly are possible..

If you can just believe!

It only takes a Minute .. to Change Your life!

It only tales a minute to learn that

A Setback is nothing but a Setup

For a Comeback!    Willie Jolley

 

I have only just a minute

Only sixty seconds in it

Forced upon me, can’t refuse it

Didn’t seek it, Didn’t choose it

But it’s up to me to use it

I must suffer if I lose it

Give account if I abuse it

Just a tiny little minute

But an eternity is in it!    Dr Benjamin Mays

 

The minute you make a decision to take action.. is the minute you change your life!   Willie Jolley

 

None of us can change of yesterdays, but ALL of us can change our tomorrows!   Colin Powell

 

While prosperity discovers vice, adversity best discovers virtue, and the virtue that comes from adversity is fortitude. The good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished, but the good things, which belong to adversity, are to be admired. Therefore he knows not of his own strength that has not met adversity.  Sir Francis Bacon

 

Adversity can either break you or make you.  The same hammer that breaks the glass, also sharpens the steel.  Bob Johnson

 

Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.  J. Willard Marriott

 

If thou faint in the time of adversity, thou strength is small.   Proverbs 24.10

 

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank wit poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.  Theodore Roosevelt

 

Mediocrity is a place and is bordered on the north by compromise, on the south by indecision, on the east by past thinking, and on the west by lack of vision.   John Mason

 

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it demands on your perspective.  Mary Roberts Rinehart

 

Do you get upset because roses have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.  Author Unknown

 

All men dream, but not equally. Those men that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds, awaken to find that it was just vanity. But those that dream by day are the dangerous ones, for they dream with their eyes open, to make sure that their dreams will come true.  T.E. Lawrence

 

You can be the designer of your life.. or the victim of your circumstances; it’s up to you!  Redenback

 

The only ‘good luck’ most great people ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome ‘back luck!’  Channing Pollock

 

If the dream is big enough the facts don’t count.  Dexter Yager

 

Gravity is a fact, but airplanes circumvent that fact on an hourly basis.  Neil Armstrong

 

Keep my words positive, because my words become behaviors

Keep my behaviors positive, because my behaviors become habits

Keep my habits positive, because my habits become my values

Keep my values positive, because they become my destiny.  Mahatma Gandhi

 

Because I’m special, I have my sense of self

And it’s not for sale, I know who I am

And I refuse to fail, I know who I am

I’ve got the power to succeed, And in the spirit of faith

I’ve got all that I need

A blessing in disguise, as evidence of things not seen

Is the secret of success, in the seed of self-esteem,

Because I am, that I am, there’s no way I can let myself down,

Hang-ups and setbacks are only stepping stones to higher ground,

Because I am Special, I am who I am.     Danny Queen

 

There are only two things to worry about;

Either you are well or you are sick.

If you are well, there is nothing to worry about.

If you are sick, there are two things to worry about;

Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well, there is nothing to worry about.

If you die, there are only two things to worry about;

Either you will go to Heaven or you will go to Hell.

If you go to Heaven, there is nothing to worry about.

If you go to Hell, well ..why worry now! It’s too late!  Author Unknown

 

Most of us are standing in a river and dying of thirst.   Cathy Mateo

 

You may not be responsible for being knocked down, but you are responsible for getting back up.  Jesse Jackson

 

If you can just believe. All things are possible to them that believe.  Mark 9.23

 

We go through life with a series of GOD ordained opportunities, brilliantly disguised a challenges.  Charles Udall

 

In life you are either just interested in a relationship or committed to a relationship.  You are either just interested in completing your studies or committed to completing your studies.  You are either just interested in starting your own business, following your dream or committed to it.  You are either just interested in improving your health, income, or lifestyle or you are committed to it.  You are either just interested in reducing the stress and mess in your life or you are committed to it.  Once you make up your mind, the main thing is to keep The Main Thing .. The Main Thing.  Stay focused and committed and you will see results .. not regrets.  Jewell Diamond Taylor

 

He who Knows Not, and Knows Not that he Knows Not, but thinks he Knows, is a fool .. shun him!

He who Knows Not, and Knows that he Knows Not, is a child .. teach him!

He who Knows, but uses not what he Knows, is asleep .. wake him!

Oh, but he who Knows, and Knows that he Knows, and uses what he Knows, is a Leader .. Follow him!  Author Unknown

 

All things work together for the good for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purposes!  Roman 8:28

 

 

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A Setup is a Setup for a Comeback: Willie Jolley: ISBN 0-312-20349-7 (Hardcover)

 

How To Develop Self Confidence & Influence People By Public Speaking

 

1.Developing Courage and Self Confidence

-Start with a strong and persistent desire

-Prepare, it will help your confidence

-Act confident, act as if we were brave

-Practice, get a record of successful experience behind you and your fears will vanish

 

2.Self Confidence Through Preparation

-A well prepared speech is already nine tenths delivered

-Real preparation consists in digging something out of yourself, in cherishing and nurturing your own convictions

-A speech must grow, select your topic early and work on it

-Research your topic at the library

-Collect far more material than you intend to use

-Have a reserve power of knowing more than you have to use

 

3.How Famous Speakers Prepared Their Addresses

Seek not for words, seek only fact and thought,

And crowding in will come the words unsought.                       Horace

-Napoleon said ‘ the art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds which has not been calculated and thought out’

-That is as true of speaking as of shooting.

-A talk is a voyage, it must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

-Each address presents its own particular problems

-A speaker should cover a point he is on thoroughly, while he is on it, and then not refer to it again

-All facts on both sides of your subject must be collected and verified

-Lincoln studied Euclid so he could detect sophistry and demonstrate his conclusions

-Theodore Roosevelt dug up all the facts, wrote hi speech out quickly, appraised it and wrote it out again

-Listen to your own talk beforehand

-Avoid reading notes, they destroy about 50% of the interest in your talk

-Practice your talk whilst walking, driving, and bathing

-State your facts, argue for them, and appeal for action

-Secure interested attention, win confidence, state your facts (educate people regarding the merits of your proposition), and appeal to the motives that make men act

 

4.The Improvement Of Memory

-The average man does not use above 10% of his actual capacity for memory

-Natural laws of remembering: impression, repetition, and association

-Get a vivid impression: Concentrate, observe closely, use as many senses as possible, and get string eye impressions

-Repetition: repeat your study in short bursts, go over your notes just prior to speaking

Association: it must be associated with another fact

-Try and connect a persons name with his face/features

-Remember dates by associating them with prominent dates already remembered

-Remember your speech by arranging them in a logical order.

-Make a nonsense statement ‘The cow smoked a cigar and hooked Napoleon and the house burned down with religion’

-If you get stuck, use one of the last words in your sentence to continue until you can think of your next point

-When introduced to something/somebody new ask yourself: Why is this so?, How is this so? When is this so? Where is this so? Who said it is so?

 

5.Essential Elements In Successful Speaking

-Be persistent, we never learn anything, golf, French, speaking, by gradual improvement.

-We advance by sudden jerks and abrupt starts

-Psychologists call these periods of stagnation ‘plateaus in the curve of learning’

-People quit because they do not understand this process

-Think success and you will do all the things necessary to achieve success

-Chaplain Frazier a ranking chaplain in the United States Navy, said success of a chaplain was possible with the ‘Four Gs’, Grace, Gumption, Grit and Guts

-Professor William James, famous Harvard psychologist said ‘anyone, if he keeps faithfully busy, can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent one of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out’

 

6.The Secret Of Good Delivery

-Stress important words: ‘I have SUCCEEDED in whatever I have undertaken, because I have WILLED it. I have NEVER HESITATED which has given me an ADVANTAGE over the rest of mankind.’  Napoleon

-It is not so much what you say, as how you say it

-Focus on your audience

-Good delivery is conversational tone and directness enlarged

-Everyone has the ability to deliver a talk.  If you question this, knock down the most ignorant man you know, when he gets up, he will probably say some things, and his manner of speech will be almost flawless

-Be yourself, be unique

-Talk as if you were looking for a question; ‘You ask how I know this .. I’ll tell you!

-Change your pitch, vary your rate of speaking, and pause before and after important ideas

 

7.Platform Presence And Personality

-‘Fill up the barrel, knock out the bung. Let nature caper’

-Your personality is important, use your strengths and strengthen your weaknesses

-Don’t speak when you are tired, Eat sparingly before you speak

-Do nothing to dull your energy, Dress neatly, Smile

-Crowd your audience together, Get down amongst a small group, get off the stage

-Keep the air fresh, Don’t stand behind furniture, No guests on stage

 

8.How To Open A Talk

-Seize their attention immediately

-The audience minds are fresh and open

-Your opening should be planned out carefully

-Don’t open with an apology or humour

-Win attention by: Arousing curiosity, relating a human interest story, a specific example, using an exhibit, asking a question, a striking quotation, show how the topic affects the audience, shocking facts

-Don’t make it to formal, gain audience rapport

 

9.How To Close A Talk

-‘By their entrances and exists shall ye know them’

-The close is the most strategic element

-What is said is likely to be remembered longest

-Do not end with ‘that is all I have to say about ..’

-Plan your ending carefully

-Seven suggested ways of closing:

--Summarising, restating, outlining the main points of your talk

--Appealing for action

--Paying the audience a sincere compliment

--Raising a laugh

--Quoting a fitting verse of poetry

--Using a biblical quotation

--Building up a climax

-Get a good ending and good beginning, and get them close together

-Always stop before your audience wants to ‘The point of satiation is reached very soon after the peak of popularity’

 

10.How To Make Your Meaning Clear

-Every talk has one of four major goals

--To make something clear

--To impress and convince

--To get action

--To entertain

-Know your goal, choose it wisely before you set out to prepare your talk. Know how to reach it.

-Use comparisons to promote clearness

-General Von Molke, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War said to his officers ‘Remember gentlemen, that any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood’

-Napoleon’s most emphatic and oft-reiterated instruction to his secretaries was ‘Be clear, Be Clear!’

-Jesus taught in parables to describe what he was saying in terms and objects with which they were already familiar.

-Jesus said ‘Because they seeing, see not; and hearing, hear not; neither do they understand’

-He used expressions like ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven….’ The people could relate to that, the housewives in the audience were using leaven every week.

-Years ago, some missionaries were translating the Bible into the dialect of a tribe in Africa.  They got to the verse ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow’.  They changed it to ‘as white as the meat of a coconut’.

-Use examples to make a point clear, i.e. don’t say 5 people signed onto the Internet every second last year, instead say ‘every man, women and child in NZ signed onto the Internet 42 times last year.. or it is the equivalent of every person in NZ, Australia, etc signing on in one year.

-Avoid technical terms and make your talk meaningful to the least intelligent person in the room or to somebody’s child. State that your talk will be so plain that even a child could understand it and explain it.

-Lincoln was passionate about making himself clear to an audience

-Appeal to people’s sense of sight, a Chinese saying ‘One seeing is better than a hundred times telling about’

-Use funny cartoon figures, draw rapidly

-Use distinctive statements ‘a white bantam roster with one leg’ rather than ‘fowl’

-Restate your ideas different ways, repetition is key to understanding, example ‘You cannot make people understand a subject, unless you understand the subject yourself. The more clearly you have a subject in mind, the more clearly can you present that subject to the minds of others’.

-Use general illustrations and specific instances, instead of saying ‘professional people make a lot of money’ (which could mean different professions and amounts to people in the audience), speak in terms of some real examples.

-Do not strive to cover too many points

-Close with a brief summary of your points

 

11.How to interest your audience

-We are interest in extraordinary facts about ordinary things

-Our chief interest is ‘ourselves’

-Stories of people will almost always hold an audience

-Be concrete and definite

-Sprinkle your talks with phrases that create pictures

-Interest is contagious, you must be genuinely interested in your topic

12.Improving Your Diction

-We only have 4 contacts with people and we are evaluated and classified by them

--What we do

--How we look

--What we say

--How we say it

-Your diction will be largely a reflection of the company you keep.  Read and study from the masters through books and tapes.

-Read with a dictionary by your side

-Study the derivation of the words you use.  Example, the word ‘Salary’ really means ‘salt money’.  The Roman soldiers were given an allowance for the purchase of salt.

-Avoid using shop worn, threadbare words. Instead of using ‘beautiful’, use elegant, exquisite, handsome, dainty, shapely, jaunty, dapper, radiant, dazzling, gorgeous, superb, magnificent, and picturesque

-Don’t use trite comparisons such as ‘cool as a cucumber’. Create similes of your own, have the courage to be distinctive. 

 

 

Selected and condensed by Dorothy Carnegie from ‘Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business’ by Dale Carnegie. ISBM 0 7493 0579 7

 

JobShift, William Bridges

 

The Late Great Job

 

“America has entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, of the consultant and subcontractor, of the just in time work force - fluid, flexible, disposable. This is the future. Its message is this: you are on your own. For good (sometimes) and ill (often), the workers of the future will constantly have to sell their skills, invent new relationships with employers who must, themselves, change and adapt constantly in order to survive in a ruthless global market”

Lance Morrow: The Temping of America

 

Where have all the jobs gone

 

“.. we have to create a new organizational architecture flexible enough to adapt to change. We want an organisation that can evolve, that can modify itself as technology, skills, competition, and the entire business change”

Paul Allaire: CEO, Xerox Corporation

 

“Today, people who lose their jobs are history”.

James Medoff: Harvard Consultant who studied Baby Boomer Trends

 

In the quantitative sense, dejobbing is simply a numbers game, the same work that used to require a hundred workers a few years ago can be done by fifty today and maybe by ten tomorrow. Other shift such as the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to huge cuts in the defense industry with the on flow of lost jobs in associated companies.

 

It is no just blue collar jobs that are disappearing. Proportionately, white collar jobs are disappearing even faster and still more of them are at risk.

 

Executives are given head count reduction targets by their boards and sometimes financial institutions are tied to reaching certain targets.

 

There is a qualitative shift going on also. Temporary and part time workers are doing an increasing share of the work in organizations. Temporary professionals are increasing twice as fast as temporary workers. Outsourcing is another popular and increasing trend amongst many large organizations.

 

Technology is also playing a huge part in this transformation.

 

Shoshana Zuboff coined the verb “to informate” to describe the way information technology inserts “data” between the worker and the product. The factory worker no longer manipulates the sheet of steel, he manipulates the data about the steel. An order once entered into a salesman’s laptop becomes data and automatically triggers a chain of events with a minimum of further human intervention.

 

Using technology Mazda accomplished with five people what Ford needed four hundred to do.

 

Consider for a moment what the “Smart Card” already widely used in Europe will do to the clerical work at your bank.

 

In 181 on the eve of the American industrialization it took so long for information to move from one place to another that change could only spread slowly. A crop could fail in Canada, a king could be executed in France, a war could erupt in Asia and famine could ravage Africa, while elsewhere things went along unaffected and unchanged.

 

Today the weather predictions for drought ravaged Africa, the gold price in Tokyo, the latest hitch in negotiations in the Middle East, announcements of job cuts at a European multinational company and a new software product from a small American start up can reach us simultaneously.

 

In this way technology, and particularly communications technology, introduces a “multiplier effect” that interlocks the whole world such that time and distance no longer buffer us against the effects of change.

 

For millions of people the job is at the office. The two entities go together like home and family. But the technological forces are making it possible to do away with offices that no one would have dreamed possible just a few short years ago.

 

The disappearance of jobs is, with every passing month, more and a more “a change that has already happened”.

 

Even if you are not innovation minded, you need to deal with this change, for it is one of those shifts in the socioeconomic environment guaranteed to render obsolete the people and institutions that deny it.

 

 

The rise and fall of the good job

 

In the preindustrial past, before factories routinised work, people worked very hard, but they did not utilize a job to frame and contain their activities.

 

It is hard for us to see these changes clearly, for we are too close to them.

 

Marshall McLuhan used to say “If you want to know about water, don’t ask a fish”.

 

Parents harangue their kids to “get a job”, they tell them how important it is to “have a good job” before you start a family, people grow up hearing about people with “good jobs” being praised or envied. A “good job” clearly makes you somebody.

 

But jobs are not part of our nature. The word job is an old one, going back before the year 1400. But until 1800 it meant something different to what is does today.

 

Before 1800, job always refereed to some particular task or undertaking, never to a permanent role or position. The Oxford Dictionary refers to job-gardener, job-doctor, job-coachman, all referring to people hired on a one time basis. Their jobs were not provided by an organization, but by the demands of their life situation and the things that needed to be done in that time and place.

 

The transition into modern jobs was gradual, the same kinds of economic forces were at work, the same kinds of distress were generated, and people, then as today, polarized into those who were excited by the possibilities and those who were appalled by the costs.

 

The preindustrial values ran deep. As late as 1795, the Lord Chief Justice in England delivered an opinion that held that “engrossing” was still a punishable offense. This word referred to increasing the price of goods in the market by buying them cheaply in large lots and selling them for a profit in small quantities. Under the name wholesaling, engrossing would become an essential part of modern commerce and the word survives in our word for grocery store.

 

In England the old rules (village customs and common law) and the new rules (industrial practices and statute law) overlapped for a tumultuous half century between 1780 and 1830. Working for wages was a precarious existence and created in cities poverty never known in the village. People protested and fought back. Authorities handed out harsh punishments.

 

The machine was changing everything. Those societies that succeeded crossing the threshold had an enormous advantage over those who did not, but at a huge cost to the people.

 

It is difficult for us to appreciate how new and different the world of “holding a job” was for a village born person. They could no longer move about among a number of tasks in a variety of locations. There were no longer seasonal periods of slack and recovery, the demands of the factory work never varied.

 

People had always provided as much of their own food and clothing as they could and worked at one time jobs for extra or special needs. Once those needs were met they slipped back into subsistence mode until new needs arose. The idea of continuing to work to save or provide for ones old age was a totally new concept.

 

The new job holders required “an education in methodical habits, punctilous attention to instructions, fulfillment of contracts on time, and in the sinfulness of embezzling materials” (Dr Andrew Ure). The relatively new institution of Sunday School was pressed into service to teach these new workers, many of whom were children, the proper new habits.

 

Today we are the same crossroads with people standing on opposite sides of technology gap.

 

Traditional job boundaries are caving in and companies like Microsoft run projects with no regular hours and people working anytime over a 24 hour period (and often all of the 24 hour period. Windows NT assembled a team and disappeared into the building in a project some people called the Death March. As the workload increased people worked weekends, slept on the floor, marriages broke up, families were ignored, but the product was delivered on time.

 

People are starting to go back to old meaning of the word “job” as they work on specific projects and for companies as a temp or as part of an outsourcing team.

 

You may not notice the change in the rules until you leave your present situation for you may be protected by the refusal of everyone around you to deal with the new realities.

 

Such a situation reminds one of the story of Balmung, the magic sword belonging to the Germanic hero Seigfried. Balmung was so sharp that it could slice an amoured warrior in two, but the cut was so fine that the wounded man could not feel it until he moved.

 

Today’s job holders may likewise feel that nothing has happened until they leave their current job.

 

 

A career guide to the twenty first century

 

What percentage of the workforce is “temporary”?

 

The real figure is 100%.

 

A career guide:

1.Learn to see every potential work situation as a market.

2.Survey your Desires, Abilities, Temperament and Assets and recycle them into a different and more viable product.

-Desires: what do I really want to do at this point in my life.

-Abilities: What am I really good at.

-Temperament: What kind of person am I and in what situations am I most productive and satisfied

-Assets: What advantages do I have from life history or education

3.Take your results from Step 2 and build your own business.

4.Learn about the potential impacts of this new world and formulate a plan to deal with it mentally and physically.

 

 

“The days of the mammoth corporations are coming to an end. People are going to have to create their own lives, their own careers and their own successes. Some people may go kicking and screaming into the new world, but there is only one message there. You are now in business for yourself”.

Robert Schaen: Ameritech

Get a job has been replaced by “go out and create a job for yourself”.

 

 

The psychological impact of dejobbing

 

In our society people need jobs. You are what you do. It’s often  the first question people ask you.

 

A job helps people tell themselves and others who they are in society. A job provides most people with their core network of relationships. A job has a time structure to it. A job gives people parts to play and tells them what they need to do to feel good.

 

In the frame of our life journey our first journey is towards some external goal, influence power, family, assets. The second journey is becoming the person that you really are.

 

The Jewish wise man Rabbi Zusya said before he died “In the world to come I shall not be asked, ‘Why were you not Moses?’, I shall be asked, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’” Jesus urged us to become “perfect” (Greek manuscripts means ripe, mature, developed) rather than flawless. We are ugly ducklings who don’t know we are really swans.

 

“A journey is a trip after you have lost your luggage”.

 

Finding a guide for your journey is not a question of finding a special person, it is about becoming a special person. After that the whole world turns out to be full of guide posts.

 

Keep your life in balance. Climbers on a rock face can only move a hand or foot if they have three other limbs in place.

 

 

We are all in this together

 

We cannot wait for companies or the government to get their act together. We must act individually and on our own behalf.

 

Our first reaction is often protective or reactionary.

 

“The changes must be stopped, we cannot allow these things to happen”.

 

“We could have passed a law outlawing tractors or requiring that every tracor to be accompanied by a man on a horse”. Charles Handy.

 

We stand at a watershed today, the future looks dangerous and uncertain.

 

Change is a shift in the world around us, transition is the internal process we go through in response to that shift.

 

Job seekers continue to send out hundreds of resumes and they answer job ads in droves, but they report that the jobs are all taken. Then they try again. And again. They respond to the unconscious pull of the old mythic story that says the job is the gateway to success.

 

Losing a social myth is more difficult than any number of jobs. A tell tale sign is a sense or mourning and disorientation that we feel as we grapple with the fact that jobs are really going away.

 

People go through five stages of mourning:

1.Denial, it won’t affect me.

2.Anger, it’s not fair, it’s not my fault, management are too blame.

3.Barganing, hey what if we do this, what about the unions.

4.Despair, what’s the use, there are not any jobs.

5.Acceptance, Ok I am going to get on with my life, maybe try this own business idea.

 

Life is our teacher. The world beyond jobs has its advantages and its prices. It offers more freedom, more control over one’s time, more consistency, more self expression, more flexibility. But it exposes one to non stop change and can destroy the sense of community that existed in many workplaces.

 

 

Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt. (Latin writer Seneca)

“The fates guide those who go willingly: those who do not, they drag”.

 

Hung By The Tongue Francis P. Martin

 

What you say is what you get, you can have whatever you say.

 

We don’t walk by sight, we walk by faith.

 

The words of your mouth have control of your life. What comes out of your mouth will determine your future.

 

The spiritual principle of the law of sowing and reaping always works. Whatever we give out, we will have it multiplied back to us.

 

We are going to let the peace of God rule in our hearts. I like what one teacher says. He says I am never confused. I believe the Word of God over everything. So I am never confused. I am never confused!

 

Pull down the bad thoughts and only allow good thoughts to be planted in the garden of your mind, because everything that is left there will grow!

 

If you think you can do it, you can develop in that area. Success is born in the mind. You must develop a habit to practice thought control.

 

Do not have any anxieties, do not have any stress. Do not allow it in your thinking.

 

Fear will prevent you from speaking the correct things.

 

Perfect love casteth out all fear.

 

When you prepare to pray, do not pray in fear, pray in faith. God does not honour fear. He honours faith.

 

Your heart is the real you. Feed your heart, because as you feed your heart … you will be speaking life instead of death.

 

Your mouth will betray you, or show forth your heart.

 

Confess me before men, and I’ll confess you before the Father, and if you deny me, I’ll deny you.

 

Do not ever confess, I’m tired Just say My strength is renewed as the eagles Do not continue to confess that you are BUSHED!

 

Do not POOR MOUTH, RICH MOUTH instead.

 

We must make a decision. We will do NOTHING without a decision.

 

When you hear me speak, you may hold me responsible because I’ve said what I meant and mean what I say. I refuse to be HUNG BY MY TONGUE!!

 

You, my brother, can speak life to someone today. Refuse to do otherwise.

The most important thing I have learnt from this book is the flowing quote:

 

When you hear me speak, you may hold me responsible because I’ve said what I meant and mean what I say. I refuse to be HUNG BY MY TONGUE!!

 

It’s all attitude. All what you say you must then have FAITH in your BELIEF. Continue to believe it, and especially have FAITH in it. Pray for it, and speak it all the time. Gold medallists at the Olympics are just that, because they spoke it. Just speaking it out loud though is not enough, you must not be hung by your tongue when speaking to yourself. You must convince yourself through the FAITH that you are becoming the person, you are the person that you want to be. You must speak both internally and out loud exactly what you say and mean.

 

The NEW Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter

1.How to become a Tribeless Warrior

-Elements that have spawned the Tribeless Warrior:

--The Technological Revolution, bike couriers are being made redundant through faxes and email

--The Advent of a Borderless World, People employ cheap labour to key data into computers in high cost centers like New York or London ‘electronic immigrants’.  It is possible to work simultaneously in more than one country

--The dissolution of the tacit employment contract, loyalty is no longer part of the glue that binds corporations and employees, it’s everyone for himself.

-TW’s are:

--skilled with WP applications

--computer literate and functional

--comfortable dealing with people from any culture

--capable of working virtually anywhere (location and situation)

--welcoming of innovation

--fast, disciplined, logical thinkers

--highly cost conscious

-‘Let the wise man make of himself an island that no flood may overcome.’  Buddha

-How to become a TW:

--Get the feeling, change your attitude

--Stay abreast of innovation within your industry

--Acquire the 5 fundamental computer skills, W/P, D/B, Contact D/B, Desktop Publisher, A/C SW

--Set up a sophisticated home office

--Earn a secondary income from home

--Set in place an economic survival strategy, recession your present circumstances, eliminate debt, live a frugal life, run one car and claim expenses on it, make your kids pay their way, prepare your home for sale constantly

 

2. How to win the termination game

-Establish the terms of separation in the employment contract

-Look and reinforce words such as ‘x company policy has always been to provide long term employment’

-Assemble past performance appraisals

-Maintain some company info on your home computer

-Use your lawyer, sign nothing

-Negotiate for anything you can during the termination interviews

 

3. How to find your Personal Mission

-The two primary purposes of life are to support yourself and to express yourself

-When you support yourself you become an adult, when you express yourself you become a person

-The ideal situation is to derive income from work that you love

-‘Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step.  Only he who keeps his eye on

the far horizon shall find his right road’.  Dag Hammarskjold’s Diary

-We have little choice but to follow the voice. A TW is like a tiger in the forest. The tiger lays in

wait and calls upon instinct and genetic memory to make sense of the sights and sounds of the

jungle, perhaps even the universe itself. When we realize that, like the tiger, we have an

incredible innate capacity to make sense of the world in which we must survive, we appreciate the wisdom of listening closely to that inner voice and observing how it might even be changing the world itself.

-The U Supply:

--Never forget you already own the entire supply of YOU

--Since the supply of YOU is fixed, the law of supply and demand dictates that any increase in demand for YOU will immediately send the price of YOU soaring.

--Refine your supply of YOU, learn new skills

--Increase the demand for YOU, all a matter of positioning

 

4. How to increase your intrinsic market value

-Find  out what you think is holding you back and do something about it

-Take charge of your life

-Tackle your problems head on

-Identify a quantifiable goal and go for it

-The apprehension of failure is inevitably worse than failure itself

-The best way to deal with just about any problem is to plunge in and do the thing you fear most

-Practise, practise, practise

-Find a mentor

-Preparation, practise and perseverance are the precursors of poise

-Story: A clergyman passing by one of his brethren commented ‘GOD has given you a wonderful garden’. ‘Yes’, replied the gardener, ‘but you should have seen it when GOD had it on his own!’

-A List to Refine YOU:

--Commit to establishing yourself as a superior product, ideally THE expert in your field

--Set yourself a quantifiable, exciting target

--Invest in whatever is necessary

--Jump in and take the first step

--Ignore naysayers

--Listen to and follow your inner voice

--Prepare and practise

--Visualise success

--Eliminate unnecessary stress

--Gather yourself

--Dance!

--Repeat the process

-Always get agreements in writing

-Sam Goldwyn observed ‘a verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on’

 

5. How to leverage the demand for your services

-Don’t waste preparing a resume, it announces you are unemployed or looking around

-Don’t approach employment through the personnel department

-Position yourself as a consultant, establish a 100 names prospect list

-Create your own niche, you can become an expert in a tiny area of knowledge in a month

-Start a newsletter

-Get publicity

 

6. How to recruit an outstanding colleague

-Four stages:

--Having an idea of whom you’d like to recruit, don’t prepare detailed job and person specifications, stay flexible and open minded.

--Finding some apparently well qualified candidates, ‘when we commit ourselves, providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would come his way’

---As Cromwell said to his soldiers ‘Put your faith in GOD, and keep your powder dry’

--Determine how good the candidate really is, ‘It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man’ Xenophanes.

 

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Four Executive Archetypes:

1.Brownie, Crunching numbers or counting beans

2.The Emperor, Enlarging the corporate empire

3.The Gonnabee, In the marketing department

4.The Wooer, Effervescent star of the sales team

 

The NEW Secrets of the Corporate Headhunter: John Wareham: ISBN 0 88730 650 0

 

Rhinoceros Success Scott Alexander

 

Success seems at times, an imaginary creature, not capable of capture.

 

There is nothing you cannot tackle. Everything you do, you do it massively! From the minute you jump out of bed in the morning, till you’re back in bed for the night, you are charging massively. It is all or nothing with you!

 

All of your energies are directed toward the attainment of your one burning desire. The reason you are so dangerous is because once you set yourself charging at something, nothing can distract you.

 

Success is there for anyone who will get off their butt and charge it down.

You imagine it as being yours.

It is your belief that runs your motor. It is your belief that fills you with an enthusiasm to charge, despite the torpedoes. Your enthusiasm is what prompts you to jump out of bed early every morning. You are a charging rhinoceros because of your overflowing enthusiasm generated by your belief: your belief that you can do it all and see it all.

 

Keep believing in yourself. It has to come from inside you. Believe and succeed.

 

It’s all in your mind.

The most important ingredient of being an effective rhinoceros is your attitude.

You are a niagra falls of energy.

Don’t wast your energy on trifling matters. Don’t let anybody or anything drain your juice. Think big!

 

Reading affirmations without acting on them is kidding yourself. Get in the habit of moving. Get in the habit of taking action toward your goals.

 

We become the product of three things: who we associate with, the books we read, and the tapes we listen to.

 

Be particular of what you read. Ask yourself “Will the information in this book help me to reach my goals?”

 

Don’t let learning lead to knowledge, let your learning lead to action … in other words ….. CHARGE!!!

 

Plan your dreams, and then work your plan. Plan your attack and then ATTACK your plan!

 

I have to give to get.

Wake up in the morning thinking rhinoceros. Associate with other rhinos. Always charge massively, don’t let the torpedoes worry you and live the good rhinoceros life.

 

Isn’t it funny how everything always comes back to belief? You have to believe you are a rhinoceros, believe you can reach your goals, believe in yourself, and believe in your future.

If you can believe, all things are possible to he who believes.

For with God all things are possible.

 

There is absolutely not one bona-fide, genuine excuse for not being super successful. You have complete control over your thoughts. You control what you are going to become. Don’t think excuses. Think rhinoceros.

 

When you are in a trying situation, HOLD ON, NEVER LET GO!!

 

Give and it shall be given unto you.

 

Rhinos that play together, stay together.

 

He that walketh with wise men, shall be wise

 

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

 

You have nothing to lose by believing but everything to gain.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ye can say to this Mountain move, and nothing shall be impossible.

 

Scoring goes:

Two Points            For a return smile and a wave

One Point              for just a return smile

No points              for merely breaking the coma

Minus points        for any accidents

 

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals.

No problems is a symptom of inactivity.

Pass enough problems and you will reach your destination.

 

Positive thinking will get you nothing, unless you combine it with charging. Writing out your goals is useless, unless you charge them down.

 

SUCCESS! THE GLEN BLAND METHOD

 

Step across the line.

Men who have plans and goals dictate to others and vice versa.

We need a program for happiness and success.

Principles never change but techniques do.

All things are possible for him who believes.

Decide to live in a positive world.

Believe in order to receive the power of God’s creative force.

God is:

   sovereign

   righteous

   just

   eternal

   omniscient

   omnipotent

   immutable

   truthful

1. Convince yourself there is a happier way of life.

2. Accept the fact that God is in charge.

Success is the balance of direction and belief.

Success is the progressive realisation of worthwhile goals, stabilised with balance and purified by belief.

Rules for success.

1. Let God guide you - have faith.

2. Establish a faith period - 30 minutes each morning for meditation and planning.

3. Crystallise your goaqls.

4. Plan of action - blueprint.

5. Develop a burning desire.

6. Believe in yourself.

7. Never give up.

Success cannot elude a will that stays in existence in spite of the pressures of adversity.  Success comes to persistent people.

Successful people do the things that failures never get around to doing.

 

Our mind is used at 10% of its potential.  The mind is a computer and you are the programmer.  As a man thinks in his heart so is he. 

Developing right thinking through new habits is not easy.

 

Suit of armour - success doctrine.

Decide to become happy. Thoughts become reality

Success complex.

6. Mastery of the essentials of life.  Organise.

5. Capacity to love.  1Cor.

4. Relaxed mental attitude.  "A heart at peace gives life to the body"  Prov. 14:30.

3. Inner happiness.  You find inner happiness when you find success doctrine.

2. Success orientation.  Understand yourself.

1. Success doctrine - wisdom.

Need a firm foundation - wisdom.

Prov. 19.8 "He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he whoi cherishes understanding prospers.

Study success doctrine on a planned daily basis.

 

The blueprint is the key.

Ecc. 7:13. God creates good and bad times.

 

Why people don’t set goals and plans.:

1. They don’t know why.

2. Too much trouble.

3. Don’t have faith in their goals.

4. They begin on a long-term basis.

Out of every adversity comes the seed of an equivalent or greater opportunity.

Dare to aim high.

Use the counsel of qualified people.

Prov. 15:22.

Prov. 18:15 "The heart of the discerning aquires knowledge, the ears of the wise seek it out.

Ecc 4:9 and 12. A triple braided cord is seldom broken.

 

Goal-Plan-Target Date-Group Thinking-Keep the goal constantly in mind-Action-Keep the faith.

 

True happiness comes from a balanced life.

   spiritual

   financial

   educational

   recreational

 

To accumulate money you must’

1. Avoid consumer debt.  Prov. 20:22.

2. Don’t consolidate your bills.

3. Avoid impulse purchases.

4. Establish a budget.

5. Pay yourself first.  Prov. 21:20 "A wise man saves but a fool spends.

6. How to pay monthly bills:

  - church

  - insurance/savings.

  - food

  - shelter

  - all other

7. Investing.

  - basic needs

  - insurance - life and health

  - cash fund

  - unimproved land

  - stocks and bonds

Service     Success     Money.

The price of success is constant.

 

Family plans and goals.

No-one can stop a man with a plan.

Faith - the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen.  The certainty that what we hope for is waiting even though we can’t see it.  Heb. 11:1

Faith period - early morning.

Ps. 91.  Put faith in God.

Ps. 32:8  I will instruct you.

 

The Golden Rule.  The Master of human relations.

1. He will seem simple but is wise.

2. He will be humble.

3. Genuinely interested in others.

4. Honest in business and personal life.

5. He will not be involved in gossip.  Prov. 18:17 "The first to present his case seems right until another comes forward and questions him.

If you can’t find something good to say, find something or say nothing.

6. Praise others.

7. Patient and kind.

8. Fair and just.

9. Give and accept constructive criticism.

10. Be a decent person, live within God’s laws.

11. Be generous with others - offering service to others, forget about getting.

12. Will possess a positive mental attitude.  Good things are going to happen.  Surround yourself with capable helpers.

 

Dare to be different.

Rom 12:2. "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of the world."

Math 6:33. If you have goals and are going in the right direction your needs will be provided for.

Break the bonds of conformity.  You have as much right to God’s abundance as anyone but it must be earned.

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."  F. Bacon.

You can be great if you believe you can.

Tomorrow is a fresh opportunity.

Ecc. 11:4. Don’t wait for the perfect time.

 

The elements of a happy and successful life are:  time, work, action, built on a foundation of belief.