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   Success Principles of a Positive Mental               Attitude(17)    17 .            Think Accurately •       Thoughts have power, are under your control, and can be used wisely or unwisely. •       Accurate thinkers accept no political, religious, or other type of thought, regardless of its source, until it is carefully analyzed. •       Accurate thinkers are the masters of their emotions. •       Accurate thought involves two fundamentals. First you must separate facts from information. Second you must separate facts into two classes? The important and unimportant. •       Accurate thinkers allow no one to do their thinking for them.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude(16) 16.                          Enforce Self-Discipline •       Self-discipline is the process that ties together all your efforts of controlling your mind, your personal initiative, positive mental attitude and controlling your enthusiasm. •       Self-discipline makes you think before you act. •       The subconscious has access to all departments of the mind, but is not under the control of any. •       If you don't discipline yourself, you are sure to be disciplined by others. •       Without self-discipline, you are as dangerous as a car running downhill without brakes or steering wheel.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude(15) 15   Control Your Enthusiasm •         To be enthusiastic-act enthusiastically! •         Enthusiasm is to progress toward success as gasoline is to a car's engine. It is the fuel that drives things forward. •         Enthusiasm stimulates your subconscious mind. By feeding your conscious mind with enthusiasm, you impress upon your subconscious that your burning desire and your plan for attaining it are certain. •         Enthusiasm is a state of mind. It inspires action and is the most contagious of all emotions. •         Enthusiasm is more powerful than logic, reason, or rhetoric in getting your ideas across and in winning over others to your viewpoint.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (14) 14. Build a Positive Mental Attitude •          A Positive Mental Attitude is the single most important principle of the science of success, without which you cannot get the maximum benefit from the other sixteen principles. •          Success attracts success and failure attracts more failure. •          Your mental attitude is the only thing over which you, and only you, have complete control. •          A Positive Mental Attitude attracts opportunities for success, while a Negative Mental Attitude repels opportunities and doesn't even take advantage of them when they do come along. •          A positive mind finds a way it can be done... a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (13) 13.                        Create Personal Initiative •       It is better to act on a plan that is still weak than to delay acting at all. •       Procrastination is the archenemy of personal initiative. •       Personal Initiative: is contagious succeeds where others fail creates work creates opportunity creates the future creates advancement procrastinator  are expert in creating  alibis  •       •       Personal initiative is the inner power that starts all action.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (12) 12. Use of Cosmic Habit Force •        It takes a habit to replace a habit. •        All of your successes and failures are results of habits you have formed. •        The orderliness of the world of natural laws gives evidence that they are under control of a universal plan. •        For every result there is a cause, and results are brought about through the use of cosmic habit force. •        First you get a habit, and then it gets you.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (11) 11.                           Budget Your Time and Money •        Tell me how you use your time and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you'll be ten years from now. •        Take regular inventory of yourself to learn how and where you are spending your time and money. •        The secret of getting things done is: DO IT NOW! •        Time is too precious to be wasted on arguments and discontent. Some mistakes can be corrected, but not the mistake of wasting time. When time is gone, it's gone for

No one has it all or knows it all. There is a reason why we all don't fall at the same time. It is so that when one is down, weak and discouraged, the other who is strong can encourage and lift the other person. God never promises that the road would be easy, but he promised never to leave or forsake us. Although life is complicated, let us learn to go easy on ourselves and trust that God is working it all out for our good (even if it doesn't make sense now). Whatever trials, challenges or down times we face, all shall pass, and in due course, we will be up and strong again to lift up those who may be down around us.

Definitely worth the read!!!!! L- I- F- E  ! ! Over time I've discovered there is no absolute finish line for everyone in the race of life. Our tracks are  different and our durations are different. The only thing we have in common is the same empire. For instance, one person graduates at age 20 and struggles for another 5 years to get a job; another might graduate at 25 and get a job immediately. One can marry a virgin and wait for the next decade to have the blessing of children; another lady probably after having series of abortions in her past, becomes a mother almost immediately after marriage. A fellow becomes MD at 38 and dies at 56; another becomes MD at 55 and lives to 90. What a life! Life is full of twists, turns, ups and downs and many more surprises and disappointments. Life offers each and everyone of us different opportunities; and once an opportunity is lost, it's gone forever except by the grace of God. It is up to ...

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (10) 10    Maintain Sound Health •        To maintain a Positive Mental Attitude and develop a healthy mind and body, you must conquer fear and anxiety. •        Anything that affects your physical health also affects your mental health. •        A Positive Mental Attitude is the most important quality for sound mental and physical health. •        Exercise produces both physical and mental buoyancy. It clears sluggishness and dullness from body and mind. •        If you haven't the willpower to keep your physical body in repair, you lack the power of will to maintain a positive mental attitude in other important circumstances that control your life.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (9) 9         Cultivate Creative Vision •        Creative imagination has its base in the subconscious and is the medium through which you recognize new ideas and newly learned facts. •        Synthetic imagination springs from experience and reason; creative imagination springs from your commitment to your definite purpose. •        Imagination recognizes limitations. Creative vision sees no limitations. •        Your imaginative faculty will become weak through inaction. It can be revived through use. The man who dipped a chunk of ice cream in chocolate and called it "Eskimo Pie" made a fortune for the five seconds of imagination it took to create the idea!

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (8) 8            Learn From Adversity and Defeat •        Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. •        Failure and pain are one language through which nature speaks to every living creature. •        You are never a failure until you accept defeat as permanent and quit trying. •        Edison failed 10,000 times before perfecting the electric light bulb. Don't worry if you fail once. Every adversity, every failure, and every unpleasant experience carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit which may prove to be a blessing in disguise

                      Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (7) 7                                                     Inspire Teamwork •        There is no record of any great contribution to civilization without the cooperation of others. •        Enthusiasm is contagious and teamwork is the inevitable result. •        A good football team relies more on harmonious coordination of effort than individual skill. •        Most people will respond more freely to a request than they will to an order. •        Helping others solve their problems will help you solve your own.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude (6) 6.     Control Your Attention •        Keep your mind ON the things you want and OFF the things you don't want! •        It is much easier to focus your attention on something you believe will happen than on something you believe is unlikely. •        Controlled attention is the act of coordinating all the faculties of your mind and directing their combined power to a specific end. •        Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy your mind at the same time. •        Independence starts with self-dependence.

Success Principles of a Positive Mental Attitude  (6)              6.   Control Your Attention ᵒ Keep your mind ON the things you want and OFF the things you don't want! ᵒ It is much easier to focus your attention on something you believe will happen than on something you believe is unlikely. ᵒ   Controlled attention is the act of coordinating all the    faculties of your  mind and directing their combined power to a specific end. •         Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy your mind at the same time. •        Independence starts with self-dependence.