The great Danish philosopher and religious thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, once wrote, “It is the sign of a good book when the book reads you.” You hold in your hands such a book—one that has not only become a classic in the self-help field, but also has that rare ability to relate to your problems, sympathize with them, and then advise you on their solutions as a wise old friend would...
Your own belief in yourself is a power within you that makes all things attainable. You can do anything that you think you can do. Belief in yourself allows you the expectation that you can solve every problem that faces humanity and obtain everything that is right. From the mind comes opportunity, with the only limitations being those that you place upon yourself.
Love is man’s greatest experience. It brings one into communication with Infinite Intelligence. When it is blended with the emotions of sex and romance it may lead one to the higher mountain-peaks of individual achievement through creative vision. The emotions of love, sex and romance are the three sides of the eternal triangle of achievement known as genius...
At the 2007 National Speakers Bureau Convention in Orlando, Florida, the topic being talked about most frequently was the author, Jeffrey Gitomer. Gitomer had done a seminar for Microsoft, and the company had ordered 6,000 autographed books for the event—5,000 copies of Little Green Book of Getting Your Way and 1,000 of Little Black Book of Connections. Gitomer’s office in Charlotte had rented a truck and delivered the books so that those attending the seminar did not have to wait for them. The goals should be measurable. After all, if you cannot measure your goals, how will you know that you have accomplished them?
Written goals can serve as a contract with yourself. The goals must be your own goals and not those of someone else, such as your parents or your spouse. The reason the goals need to be yours is that you are not likely to develop a burning desire to succeed unless the goals belong to you. The goals should be measurable. After all, if you cannot measure your goals, how will you know that you have accomplished them?
THE GREATEST WASTE of all is the waste of our own potential mind power. The famous Harvard professor and psychologist William James estimated that the average person uses only 10 percent of his mental power. He has unlimited power—yet he uses only about one-tenth of it. The power to be what you want to be, to get what you desire, and to accomplish whatever it is you are striving for abides within you. You are the one who is responsible for bringing it forth and putting it to work...
In the grand aim of life, some worthy purpose should be kept constantly in view, and every effort to accomplish it must be made every day. If you do that, you will, perhaps unconsciously, approach the goal of your ambition. When a person has formed a great sovereign purpose in her mind, it governs her conduct just as the laws of nature, such as the law of gravity, govern the operation of physical things. It is highly significant that the Creator provided man with control over nothing except the power to shape his own thoughts and the privilege of fitting them to any pattern of his choice....
All riches, of whatsoever nature, begin as a state of mind; and let us remember that a state of mind is the one and only thing over which any person has complete, unchallenged right of control. It is highly significant that the Creator provided man with control over nothing except the power to shape his own thoughts and the privilege of fitting them to any pattern of his choice....
As the Executive Director of the Foundation, I am invited to many functions and choose to attend some periodically. Several years ago, I was invited to a meeting of the Guideposts organization in Cleveland, Ohio. Guideposts is a very prestigious group that is operated today by the successors of Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the bestselling author of many books, but best known for The Power of Positive Thinking. This event was held in one of Cleveland’s most famous hotels...