Upgrade Your Thinking

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.

Things You Need To Know About Failure

1. To fail is not the same as being a failure.

You may have many feelings and yet still be far from being a failure.

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

2. To fail is not the disgrace everyone thinks it is.

To make a mistake is to do nothing more than to join the human race.

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.”

3. Failure is only a temporary setback.

Failure is never the final chapter of the book of your life unless you give up and quit.

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.” Denis Waitley

4. Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without running the risk of failure.
The man who risks everything to try to achieve something truly worthwhile and fails is anything but a disgraceful failure.

“When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about.” Maharishi Mahesh

5. Failure is a natural preparation for success.

Strange as it may seem to some of you, success is much more difficult to live with successfully than is failure.

“Success builds character, failure reveals it” Dave Checkett

6. Every failing brings with it the possibilities of something greater.

Analyze failure under whatever circumstances you choose, and you will discover some seeds for turning failure into success.

“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”

7. What you do with failures in your life is up to you.

Failure is either a blessing or a curse, depending upon the individual's reaction or response to it.

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” Napoleon Hill

8. Failing are opportunities to learn how to do things better the next time - to learn where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them.
The best possible thing to do with failure is to learn all you can from it.

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person”