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The MAGIC of THINKING BIG

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About The Author

President of Creative Educational Services.

American motivational writer and coach, best known for authoring The Magic of Thinking Big in 1959.

 Professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

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OUTLINE1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease

3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

4. How to Think Big

5. How to Think and Dream Creatively6. You Are What You Think You Are7. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

8. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

9. Think Right Toward People10. Get the Action Habit11. How to Turn Defeat Into Victory12. Use Goals to Help You Grow

13. How to Think Like a Leader

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Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

1.Those who surrendered completely: 1.Those who surrendered completely: - they go to great lengths to rationalize their status

- explain how “happy”explain how “happy” they really are

2.Those who surrendered partially: 2.Those who surrendered partially: - includes many talented, intelligent people

- elect to crawl through life because they are

afraid to stand up and run.stand up and run.

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Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

3.Those who never surrender.3.Those who never surrender.

- Seeking advice from a failure is like consulting a quack on how to cure

cancer.

What happens on weekends and between 6pm and 9am directly affects a person’s performance from 9am to 6pm.

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Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

3.Those who never surrender.3.Those who never surrender.• Go first class: that is an excellent rule to follow in everything you do

• Go first class in everything you do. You can’t afford to go any other way.

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Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

•Develop a defense against people who want to convince you that you can’t do it.

•Be in the flock that thinks right.

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Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

•Don’t let negative thinkers pull you down to their level.

•Cling to the people who think progressively.

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• Circulate in new groups and enlarge your social orbit.Circulate in new groups and enlarge your social orbit.

• Selecting friends who have views different from Selecting friends who have views different from yours.yours.

• Selecting friends who stand above petty, unimportant Selecting friends who stand above petty, unimportant things.things.

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Throw thought poison out of your environment.

Avoid gossip.

Talk about people, but stay on the positive side.

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Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

Grow the attitudes of:Grow the attitudes of:

• I am activated.I am activated.

• I am important.I am important.

• Service first.Service first.

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Make Your Attitudes Your Allies• To activate others, to get them to be enthusiastic, you must first be

enthusiastic yourself.

• Use the dig-into-it-deeper technique to develop enthusiasm toward other people.

• To get enthusiasm about anything – people, places, things – dig into it deeper.

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Make Your Attitudes Your AlliesAsk yourself every day, “What can I do today to make my wife and family

happy?”

“Put service first” is an attitude that creates wealth. Put service first, and money takes care of itself.

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Think Right Toward People• Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle

between you and what you want to be is the support of others.

• A person is not pulled up to a higher-level job. Rather he is lifted up.

• Successful people follow a plan for liking people. Do you?

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Think Right Toward PeopleThe person who does the most talking and the person who is the most

successful are rarely the same person.

• Practice conversation generosity.

• Don’t be a conversation hog. Listen, win friends, and learn.

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Think right toward people

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

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Think Right Toward People• It’s a mark of real leadership to take the lead in getting to know It’s a mark of real leadership to take the lead in getting to know

people.people.

• The most important person present is the one person most active in The most important person present is the one person most active in introducing himself.introducing himself.

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Get the Action Habit

• Destroy fear through action.Destroy fear through action.

• The only way to start is to start. Don’t deliberate. Don’t postpone The only way to start is to start. Don’t deliberate. Don’t postpone getting started.getting started.

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Get the Action Habit

• People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.move them; they move the spirit.

• When you see something that you believe ought to be done, pick When you see something that you believe ought to be done, pick up the ball and run.up the ball and run.

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Get the action habit

Your goal is to make successful action habitual. The more we practice, the sooner it becomes a habit.

The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find solutions to difficulties when he counters them.

The only way to start is to start.

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How to turn Defeat Into Victory

• Defeat is Nothing More Than a State of MindDefeat is Nothing More Than a State of Mind

• Salvage Something from Every SetbackSalvage Something from Every Setback

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How to turn defeat into victory

The difference between success and failure is found The difference between success and failure is found in one’s attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps, in one’s attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps, discouragements, and other disappointing situations.discouragements, and other disappointing situations. Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solve Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solve them as they arise.them as they arise.

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How to turn defeat into victory

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!

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How to turn Defeat Into Victory

• Use the Force of Constructive Self-Criticism

• Achieve Positive Results through Persistence and Experimentation

• Whip Discouragement by Finding the Good Side to Every Situation

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Use Goals to Help You Grow

• Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.

• Get a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go in LifeGet a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go in Life

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Use goals to help you grow

Remember: The important thing is not where you are or where, but where you want to go.

We must plan to accomplish something.

Having a clear goal in mind and make a map of it will help us to get there.

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Use goals to help you grow

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…

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Use Goals to Help You Grow

• Multiply Your Energy by Setting Definite GoalsMultiply Your Energy by Setting Definite Goals

• Set Goals That will Help You Get Things Done and Live LongerSet Goals That will Help You Get Things Done and Live Longer

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How to Think Like A Leader

4 Rules of Leadership:4 Rules of Leadership:

1.1. Trade minds with the people you want to influenceTrade minds with the people you want to influence

2.2. Think: what is the human way to handle this?Think: what is the human way to handle this?

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

4.4. Take time out to confer with yourself.Take time out to confer with yourself.

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How to Think Like A Leader

• Achieving high-level success requires the support and the Achieving high-level success requires the support and the cooperation of others.cooperation of others.

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How to Think Like A Leader

Ask yourself:Ask yourself:

• ““What kind of world would this world be, If everyone in it What kind of world would this world be, If everyone in it were just like me?”were just like me?”

• ““What kind of company would this company be, If everyone What kind of company would this company be, If everyone in it were just like me?”in it were just like me?”

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HOW TO THINK AS A LEADER

You are not pulled to success, you are lifted by those working beside and below you.

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.

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OUTLINE1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease

3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

4. How to Think Big

5. How to Think and Dream Creatively6. You Are What You Think You Are7. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

8. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

9. Think Right Toward People10. Get the Action Habit11. How to Turn Defeat Into Victory12. Use Goals to Help You Grow

13. How to Think Like a Leader

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