This document provides lessons on developing a positive mindset for success. It discusses thinking big, believing in yourself, overcoming fear and excuses, focusing on strengths over weaknesses, setting goals, and learning from setbacks. The key lessons are to think positively, take action, learn continuously, and maintain good relationships.

2. A wise man will be Master of his mind
A Fool will be Its Slave
Publius Syrius

4. LESSON 1: BELIEVE YOU CAN SUCCEED AND YOU WILL
 Success is determined
by the size of one’s
thinking: people who
think big grow big.
 Strong belief triggers
the mind to figuring
ways and means to
achieve it.
 A person is a product
of his own thoughts.

5.  Think success, don’t think failure
 Believe you can succeed and you will
 Remind yourself regularly that you are better than
you think you are
 Believe big: The size of your success is determined
by the size of your belief
 Never sell yourself short

6. LESSON 2 : CURE YOURSELF OF EXCUSES: THE FAILURE DISEASE
 The thinking that
guides your intelligence
is much more
important than how
much intelligence you
may have.
 Never underestimate
your own intelligence
and overestimate the
intelligence of others.
 Concentrate on your
assets: you attitudes
are much more
important than your
intelligence

8. LESSON 3 : BUILD CONFIDENCE AND DESTROY FEAR
 Action cures fear
 Isolate your fear.
 Make a big effort
to put only
positive thoughts
in your memory.
 Destroy your
negative
thoughts.
 To think
confidently you
have to act
confidently

9.  Take action against fear
 Boost positive thoughts and destroy the
negative ones
 Against shyness and low confidence:
make eye contact, walk 25% faster,
speak up, smile big
 Act confidently

10. LESSON 4 : THINK BIG
 Probably the greatest
human weakness is self-
deprecation- that is,
selling oneself short.
 Look at things not as they
are, but as they can be.
Visualization adds value
to everything.
 We don’t think in words or
phrases, but in pictures
and images.

11.  Imagine yourself big.
 Take distance of problems, difficulties, quarrels… and ask
yourself, is this bringing me closer to my objective? is this
really important?
 Use the big thinker’s vocabulary: words that create
pleasant images such as victory, joy, happiness…
 Practice being a big thinker

12. LESSON 5 : THINK AND DREAM CREATIVELY
 Progress is our most
important product: is
not so much what you
know when you start, is
what you learn and to
use after what counts
the most!
 Big people monopolize
the listening; small
people monopolize the
talking.
 Top success is deserved
to the: “I can do it
better” kind of person.a

13.  Be progressive in everything you do.
 Ask yourself daily: “How can I do better?”
 Believe firmly it can be done

14. LESSON 6 : YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE
 Practicing uplifting self-praise helps us to gain confidence.
 Follow the principle: Sell yourself to yourself
 Look important: it will help you to think important.

15.  Give yourself a pep talk several times daily
 Create a self-praise Mantra for yourself
 Think enthusiasm and you will be enthusiastic

16. LESSON 7 : MANAGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT: GO FIRST CLASS
 To recondition yourself for success is the first step to take.
 Being environment-conscious is key: just as a body diet makes the body, mind
diet makes the mind.
 Develop a defense against destructive critics

17.  Get plenty of psychological sunshine
 Go first class in everything you do
 Get your advice from successful people

18. LESSON 8 : MAKE YOUR ATTITUDES YOUR ALLIES
 Grow the
attitude “I am
activated”
 In everything
you do: Life it
up.
 Put service first
and money
takes care of
itself.

19.  Always give people more than they
expect to get
 Put passion in everything you do
 Show appreciation at every opportunity

20. LESSON 9 : THINK RIGHT TOWARD PEOPLE
 A basic rule: Success depends on the support of other people.
 Successful people follow a plan for liking people.

21.  Learn to remember names
 Be a comfortable person
 Practice courtesy all the time
 Cultivate the quality of being interesting

22. LESSON 10 : GET THE ACTION HABIT
 Your goal is to make successful action habitual.
 The only way to start is to start.

23.  Got a good idea? Then take action!
 Get the habit of writing down your thoughts
and your goals
 Just start now!

24. LESSON 11 : TURN DEFEAT INTO VICTORY
 The difference between success and failure is found in one’s attitudes toward
setbacks, handicaps, discouragements, and other disappointing situations.
 Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solve them as they arise

25.  Study setbacks to pave your way to success
 Analyze weaknesses and failures and correct
them.
 Stop blaming luck
 Remember, there is a good side in every situation:
find it.
 GET IN GEAR AND GO!

26. LESSON 12 : USE GOALS TO HELP YOU GROW
 The important thing is not where you are or where, but where you want to go.
 We must plan to accomplish something.

27.  Get a clear fix on where you want to go
 Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard
each task you perform as a step toward your goal.
 Invest in yourself: education, mental power, ideas
boosters…
 Set goals to get things done.

28. LESSON 13 : THINK AS A LEADER
 Give other people the kind of treatment you would like to receive and you
will be rewarded.
 Your thinking power needs to be addressed, let your mind review the situation
by taking some minutes of solitude every day.

29.  Think progress, believe progress, push for progress
 Practice praising people
 Take time to confer with yourself
 Seek improvement & excellence in everything you do

31. When Little People Try to Drive You Down
there are some people who want you to lose,
to experience misfortune,
to be reprimanded.

32. But, these people can't hurt you if you'll remember :
 You win when you refuse to
fight petty people..
 Expect to be sniped at. It's
proof you are growing.
 Remember snipers are
psychologically sick. Be Big.
Feel sorry for them.

33. When That "I-Haven't-Got-What-It-Takes" Feeling Creeps Up On You
If you think you are weak, YOU ARE.
If you think you are inadequate, YOU ARE,
If you think you are second class, YOU ARE

34. Whip that natural tendency to sell yourself short with these tools
• Look important
• Concentrate on
your assets
• The other person is
just another human
being, so why be
afraid of him?

35. When an Argument or Quarrel Seems Inevitable
Think BIG Enough to see that quarrels, arguments, & fusses will never
help you get where you want to go!

36. Successfully resist the temptation to argue and quarrel by
"Honestly now, is this thing
really important enough
to argue about?
You never gain anything from
an argument but you always
lose something

37. When You Feel Defeated
It is not possible to achieve large success without hardships and setbacks.
But it is possible to live the rest of your life without defeat

38. BIG thinkers react to setbacks this way
Regard the setback as a lesson. Learn from it.
Use it to propel you forward.
Back off and start afresh with a new approach

39. When Romance Starts To Slip
"She's(He's)-unfair-to-me-so-I'll-get-even" type of thinking slaughters romance,
destroys the affection that can be yours

40. Do this when things aren't going right in the love department
Concentrate on the biggest
qualities in the person you
want to love you.
Do something special for
your mate - and do it
often!

41. When You Feel Your Progress on the Job is Slowing Down
No matter what you do, higher status & pay comes from one thing:
Increasing the quality and quantity of your output

42. I CAN DO BETTER !
The best is not unattainable.
Nothing in this world is
being done as well as it
could be
And when you think, "I can do
better," ways to do better will
appear