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The Magic of Thinking

BIG
Develop the power of belief:
1. Think success; dont think failure. let the master thought I will succeed
dominate your thinking.
2. Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Never sell
yourself short.
3. Believe BIG. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.

Build confidence and destroy fear:


1. Action cures fear. Isolate your fear and then take constructive action.
2. Make a supreme effort to put only positive thought into your memory bank.
3. Put people into proper perspective. Many people will bark, but its a rare one who
bites.
4. Practice doing what your conscience tells you is right.
5. Make everything about you say, Im confident really, confident.

Think BIG in every way: Grow big by thinking big!


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Dont sell yourself short. Conquer the crime of self-deprecation.


Use the big thinkers vocabulary. Use big, bright, cheerful words.
Stretch your vision. See what can be, not just what is.
Get the big view of your job. Think your present job is important.
Think above trivial things. Focus your attention on big objectives.

Think and dream creatively:


1. Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will
find ways to do it.
2. Dont let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas.
3. Ask yourself daily, how can i do better? Theres no limit to self improvement.
4. Ask yourself, how can i do more? Capacity is a state of mind.
5. Practice asking/ listening. Ask & listen, you will obtain raw material for reaching
sound decisions
6. Stretch your mind. Get stimulated. Associate with people who can help you think of
new ideas.

You are what you think you are:


1. Look important; it helps you think important. Your appearance talks to you.
2. Think your work is important; then you will receive mental signals on how to do
your job better.
3. Give yourself a pep talk several times daily. Remind yourself that you are a firstclass person.
4. In all of lifes situation, ask yourself, is this the way an important person thinks?

Make your environment make you successful:


1. Be environment conscious. Just as body diet makes the body, mind diet makes the
mind.
2. Make your environment work for you, not against you. Dont let oppressive forces
defeat you.
3. Get your advice from successful people. Your future is important dont risk it with
bad advisors.
4. Get plenty of psychological sunshine. Discover new and stimulating things to do.
5. Dont let small-thinking people hold you back. Jealous people want to see you
stumble.
6. Throw thought poison out of your environment. Avoid gossip. Talk positive about
others.
7. Go first class in everything you do. You cant afford to go any other way.

Make your attitudes your allies:


1. Grow the Im activated attitude. Results come in proportion to the enthusiasm
invested.
2. Grow the you are important attitude. People do more when you make them
feel important.
3. Grow the service first attitude. Make it a rule to always give people more than
they expect to get.

Think right towards people:


1. Make yourself lighter to lift. Be likable. Practice being the kind of person people
like.
2. Take the initiative of building friendships. Introduce yourself to others at every
opportunity.
3. Accept human differences and limitations. Dont expect anyone to be perfect.
4. Think positive thoughts towards people. Find qualities to like and admire, not
things to dislike.
5. Practice conversation generosity. Encourage others to talk. Be like successful
people.

6. Practice courtesy all the time. It makes other people feel better. It makes you feel
better too.
7. Dont blame others when you receive a setback. Think positive and move on.

Get the action habit:


1. Be an activationist. Be someone who does things. Be a doer not a dont-er.
2. Dont wait until conditions are perfect. They will never be. Expect obstacles and
solve them.
3. Remember ideas alone wont bring success. Ideas have value only when you act on
them.
4. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Do what you fear and fear disappears.
5. Start your mental engine mechanically. Dont wait for the spirit to move you.
6. Think in terms of now. Tomorrow, next week, and later are similar to the failure
word never.
7. Get down to business --- pronto. Dont waste time getting ready to act. Start
acting instead.
8. Seize the initiative. Be a crusader. Pick up the ball and run. Be a volunteer. Get in
gear and go!

Turn defeat into victory:


1. Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you lose learn, and then go on
to win next time.
2. Have courage to be you own constructive critic. Seek out faults and weaknesses
and the correct them.
3. Stop blaming luck. Research each setback. Find out what went wrong. Blaming luck
gets you nowhere.
4. Blend persistence and experimentation. Try new approaches. Stay with your goal
and move on.
5. There is a good side in every situation. Find it . See the good side and whip
discouragement.
Use goals to help you grow:
1. Get a clear fix on where you want to grow. Create an image of yourself ten years
from now.
2. Write out you ten-year plan. Your life is too important to be left to chance.
3. Surrender yourself to your desires. Set goals to get more energy. Set goals to get
things done.
4. Let your major goal be your automatic pilot. Let your goal absorb you; then make
the right decisions .
5. Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard each step you perform as a step
closer toward your goal.
6. Build thirty-day {30} goals. Day by day effort pays off.

7. Take detours in stride. A detour simple means another route. It is not surrendering
your goal.
8. Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power and efficiency.
Invest in education.

Think like a leader:


1. Trade minds with people you want to influence. Put yourself in their shoes; see
through their eyes.
2. Apply the Be-Human rule in all your dealings with others. Show that you put
other people first.
3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress. Think high standards in
everything you do.
4. Take time out to confer with yourself and tap your supreme thinking power.

When little people try to drive you down, THINK BIG.


When that I havent got what it takes feeling creeps up on you,
THINK BIG.
When an argument or quarrel seems inevitable, THINK BIG.
When you feel defeated, THINK BIG.
When romance starts to slip, THINK BIG.
When you think your progress with the job is slowing down, THINK
BIG.

A WISE MAN WILL BE MASTER OF HIS MIND,


A FOOL WILL BE ITS SLAVE.
THIS IS A BOOK SUMMARY OF THE BOOK THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG BY David J Swchwartz,
Ph.D

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