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BIG?- Submitted by Group 13

By

David J. Schwartz

Content• Believe You Can and You Will• Cure Yourself of Excusitis• Build Confidence and Destroy Fear• How to Think Big• How to Think and Dream Creatively• You Are What You Think You Are• Manage Your Environments: Go First Class• Make Your Attitudes Your Allies• Think Right Toward People• Get The Action Habit• How to Turn Defeat Into Victory• Use Goals to Help You Grow• How to Think Like A Leader

and really believe

you can and you will

Do you think YOU can move a mountain?

Believe…really believe…

you can move a mountain

and… YOU can!

Don’t worship celebrities and leaders

Respect themLearn from them

Study them

Believe you can surpass them

Think success don’t think failure

Think Big! The size of your success is

determined by the size of your

beliefRemind yourself regularly that

you are better than you think you are

How to develop power of belief?

How to cure Exusitis?

Age: I am too old

Health: I am ill

Unintelligence:I am not that intelligent

3 Types of Excusitis

How to cure age Excusitis?

• Look at your present age positively

• Compute the productive time you still have

• Invest future time in doing what you really want to do

How to cure health Excusitis?

Refuse to worry

about your health

Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as it is

It’s better to wear out than rust out

How to cure intelligence Excusitis?•Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others

• My attitudes are more important than my intelligence

• The ability to think is of much greater value than the ability to memorize facts

How to build confidence

destroy

Isolate your fear Pin it down. Determine

exactly what you are afraid of

Take Action There is some kind of action for any kind of

fear

Be decisiveHesitation only enlarges,

magnifies the fear

How to cure fear and win confidence?

Lack of self confidence??Efficiently manage your memory bank• Deposit only positive thoughts• Withdraw only positive

thoughts

Fear of other people??• Get a balanced view of the

other fellow.• Develop an understanding

attitude

Managed motions can change emotions

Confident action produces confident thinking. Below are 5 confidence building exercises:

1) Be a front seater2) Practise making eye

contact3) Walk 25 percent faster4) Practise speaking up 5) Smile Big

How to

22 year olds are concerned about retirement plans

SUCCESS IS DETERMINED BY HOW BIG WE THINK

SUCCESS VS SECURITY

The greatest human weakness is self-depreciation

Philosophers say, KNOW THYSELF

People interpret it as know only thy negative self

#1. Determine your five chief assets

You will outrank many in at least one asset

#2. Under each asset, name 3 people who have achieved

large success but who do not have this asset to as

great degree as you

How to measure your true value?

I am sorry that we have failed.

To think BIG, we must use words and phrases which produce

big, positive mental images

Here’s a new approach that I think will work!

SEE WHAT CAN BE, NOT JUST WHAT IS!

What determines howmuch you are worth?

Don’t let what you have not got to stop you!

Practise Adding Value1. TO THINGS2. TO PEOPLE3. TO YOURSELF

BIG THINKERS SEE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF A TEAM EFFORT, AS

WINNING OR LOSING WITH THE TEAM, NOT BY THEMSELVES

Don’t let petty, insignificant things block your way to

achievement

Grow big by thinking big

How to think and dream

Creatively?

OR Polio vaccine?

OR writing a novel

?Experiment to discover electricity?

What do you call creative thinking?

Then, chances

are you are

thinking

WRONG!!

It is much more than all this

How to develop and strengthen it?

1. Believe it can be done

2. Be receptive to new ideas

3. Ask yourself, "How can I do better?"

4. Ask yourself, "How can I do more?

There is no limit to self-improvement

Capacity is a state of mind

5. Ask and listen

6. Stretch your mind

Mix with people of different occupational and social interests

YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!!

1. Look important

It helps you think importantYour appearance talks to

others

2. Think your work is important

Your subordinates will think their work is important too

3. Build a "sell yourself-to-yourself"

commercial

Remind yourself at every opportunity that you're a first-

class person

4. Ask yourself"Is this the way an important

person thinks?"

Then obey the answer

Manage your environment because it is

food for your mind

Make your environment work for you, not against you!!

Don’t let suppressive forces the negative

you–can’t–do–it people – make you think defeat

Make It A Rule To Seek Advice From People Who Know

Get Plenty Of Psychological Sunshine

Circulate in new

groups

Friends with

different views

Guard your psychological environment Friends who stand above petty, unimportant things

Throw Thought – Poison Out Of Your Environment

Go First Class In Everything You Do

You can’t afford to go any

other way

Grow The “I’m Activated” AttitudeWhen you find yourself disinterested in something1.

dig in &

learn

Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude2. Life up everything about yourself

Act Alive!!

Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude3.

Grow The “You Are Important” Attitude

Appreciate

Others

Call

people

by

their

name

Grow The “Service First” Attitude

Give People more than they expect to get

How to think right

toward people?

1. Practice being kind of person people like

Make yourself lighter to lift…

2. Take initiative in building friendshipsBe

proactive…

3. Accept human differences & limitations

Everyone of us is unique…

4. Find qualities to like in a person, not things to dislike

Think positive…

5. Practice conversation generosity

Encourage others to talk…

7. Don’t blame others for your failures

How you think when you lose determines how long

it will be until you win..

How to inculcate

the habit of ACTION?

Be an

Activationist

Be someone who does

things…

2. Don't wait until conditions are perfect

They never

will be!

3. Ideas alone won't bring success

They have value only when you act upon

them…

4. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence

Do what you

fear, and fear

disappears…

5. Start your mental engine mechanically

Don't wait for the spirit to

move you.

6. Think in terms of now

Tomorrow never comes

7. Don't waste time

getting ready to act

Start acting NOW!!

8. Seize the initiative

Chances wait for none.

How to turn

defeat into

victory?

1. Study setbacks to pave your way to success

Failures are success in

disguise…

2. Have the

courage to be

your own constructive critic

Find your weaknesses & faults and correct them.

3. Stop blaming

luck

Find out what went

wrong

4. ExperimentBe persistent.

5. Have Faith

Everything has a good side

How to use goals to help you

grow?

1. Be clear where you want to go

2. Write out your 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

4. Let your major goal be your automatic pilot

5. Achieve your goal

one step at a time

A detour simply means another route…

6. Take detours in stride

7. Invest in yourself

Purchase those things that build

mental power and efficiency.

How

to

think

like a

leader

?

1. Trade minds with the people you want to

influence

It is a magic way to get

others act the way you want them to act

2. Apply the "Be-Human" rule in your dealings with others

Give others the kind of treatment you like to receive.

3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress

Think improvement in everything you do.

4. Take time out to confer with yourself and tap your supreme

thinking power

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References

• Magic of thinking big by David J. Schwartz• https://www.flickr.com/• www.startv.com• www.images.google.com

Prof. Sameer MathurIndian Institute of Management, LucknowMarketing Professor: August 2013 – Present

McGill UniversityMarketing Professor: July 2009 – July 2013 

Carnegie Mellon UniversityPh.D. in Marketing : August 2003 – June 2009

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