Think like important people think. Upgrading your thinking
upgrades your actions, and this produces success.
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success.”
How Am I thinking? Checklist:
When
I worry:
Ask Yourself
Would
an important person worry about this? Would the most successful person I know
be disturbed about this?
“Worry
is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you
anywhere.”
An Idea:
Ask
Yourself
What would an important person do if he
had their idea?
“An idea that is developed and put
into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
My appearance:
Ask
Yourself
Do I look like someone who has maximum
self-respect?
“Attitude
is more important than the past, than education, than money, than
circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance,
giftedness, or skill.”
My language:
Ask
Yourself
Am I using the language of successful
people?
“If we spoke a different language, we
would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“Kindness is a language
which the deaf can hear and the blind can see” Mark Twain
“Language shapes the way we think, and
determines what we can think about.”
What I read:
Ask Yourself
Would an important person read this?
“The man who doesn't read
good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them” Mark Twain
“It is what you read when
you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Conversation:
Ask
Yourself
Is this something successful people
would discuss?
“A man's character may
be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
“Silence is one of the great arts of
conversation.”
When I lose my temper:
Ask
Yourself
Would an important person get mad at
what I’m mad at?
“Never do anything when you are in a
temper, for you will do everything wrong.”
“Temper gets you into trouble. Pride
keeps you there.”
My jokes:
Ask
Yourself
Is this the kind of joke an important
person would tell?
“Our
subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the
difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we
continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”
My job:
Ask
Yourself
How does an important person describe
his job to others?
“Pleasure in the job puts
perfection in the work.”
“Choose a job you love and
you will never have to work a day in your life.”
You must constantly ask yourself
these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got
me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do
they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then
ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by
chance, it gets better by change.
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