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Think BIG: When little people try to drive you down.

Think BIG: When that “I-Haven’t-Got-Think BIG: When that “I-Haven’t-Got-What-It-Takes” feeling creeps up on What-It-Takes” feeling creeps up on

you.you.

Think BIG: When an argument or quarrel

seems inevitable.

Think BIG: When you Think BIG: When you feel defeated.feel defeated.

Think BIG: When romance starts to slip.

TThink BIG: When you feel progress on hink BIG: When you feel progress on your job is slowing down.your job is slowing down.

The MAGIC of THINKING BIG

About The AuthorBorn on 23rd March 1927.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.

Died on 6th December 1987.

Target AudienceTarget Audience• Professionals who need constant motivation.• Business, Healthcare, Military. • Students & Novice Workers.

Strengths• Inspirational & Encouraging. • Research based.• Example based.

Fulfilling the purpose• Inspiring individual toward a better life.

• Easy to read.

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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

BELIEVE YOU CAN SUCCEED AND YOU WILL

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Believe In “I”

Success does not require a super-intellect.

Success isn’t based on luck.

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.

Believe you can succeed and you will

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.

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Believe You Can Succeed and You Will

• Defeat Disbelief and the Negative Power It Creates

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Believe You Can Succeed and You Will

• Make Your Mind Produce Positive Thoughts

“But You’ve Got to Have Brains to Succeed.”

Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others

My attitudes are more important Use your mind to create and develop

ideas, to find new and better ways to do things

CURE YOURSELF OF EXCUSITIS, THE FAILURE DISEASE

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CURE YOURSELF OF EXCUSITIS, THE FAILURE DISEASE

“But My Health Isn’t Good.”

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

Remind yourself often, “It’s better to wear out than rust out”.

“It’s No Use. I’m Too Old (or Too Young).”

Think, “I’m still young,” not “I’m already old”. Compute productive time you have left.

Life is actually longer than most people think!

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

Instead think, “I’m going to start now, my best years are ahead of me”

“But My Case Is Different; I Attract Bad Luck

Accept the law of cause and effect.

Not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking preceded his good fortune.

Don’t be a wishful thinker. Don’t waste your mental muscles dreaming of an

effortless way to win success.

“But My Case Is Different; I Attract Bad Luck

Don’t count on luck for promotions, victories, the good things in life.

Luck simply isn’t designed to deliver these good things.

Cure yourself of excuses: the failure disease

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

Cure yourself of excuses: the failure disease

Don’t sell yourself short. Concentrate on developing those qualities in

yourself that will make you a winner. Concentrate on your assets.

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• Vaccinate Yourself Against Excusitis, the Failure Disease

• Learn the Secret That Lies in Your Attitude Towards Health

Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease

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• Use Your Mind for Thinking – Not Simply as a Warehouse for Facts

• Conquer Luck Excusitis and Attract Good Luck to you.

Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease

BUILD CONFIDENCE AND DESTROY FEAR

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Is it “only in your mind” ?

“Most fear is psychological.” “Worry, tension, embarrassment,

panic all stem from mismanaged, negative imagination.”

The old saying “it’s only in your mind” seems to be saying that fear isn’t real, but fear is real and it can do a lot of damage.

Fear: Success enemy #1:This chapter is all about how you can build your confidence and destroy fear before fear robs you of potential for success in your life.

Fear can:

stop people from capitalizing on opportunityclose your mouth when you want to speakwear down physical vitalitymake people sickshorten the life span

Fear prevents people from getting what they want and deserve.

So How Do You Destroy Fear?

You build and develop your confidence to destroy fear. Story about how the navy, during World War II:

• Non-swimming recruits were placed in swimming classes

• Recruits to jump off a diving board into 8 feet of water.

• In some cases, the recruits were pushed off the diving board.

So How Do You Destroy Fear?

“ “The result: fear The result: fear defeated. Action cures defeated. Action cures

fear.”fear.”

How to Build Confidence:

1. Deposit only positive thoughts in your memory bank. 

2. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank.

3. Do what is right. 

Build confidence and destroy fear

Isolate your fear. Isolate your fear. Determine exactly what you are afraid of.Determine exactly what you are afraid of.

Destroy your negative thoughts before these thoughts Destroy your negative thoughts before these thoughts become mental monsters.become mental monsters.To think confidently you have to act confidently.To think confidently you have to act confidently.

To Think Confidently, Act Confidently

Be a front seater. 

Practice making eye contact.

Walk 25 percent faster. 

Practice speaking up.

Smile Big.

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Build Confidence and Destroy Fear• Use the Action Technique to Cure Fear and Build Confidence

• Manage your Memory so as to Increase Your Store of Confidence

• Overcome Your Fear of Other People

“To Think Confidently, Act Confidently”

HOW TO THINK BIG

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Ask yourself, “What is my greatest weakness?”.

Probably the greatest is Self-depreciation.

Exercise to measure your true size

Determine your 5 chief assets. Invite an objective friend or an intelligent person who will give you an honest opinion.

Next, under each asset, write the name of three persons you know who have achieved large success but who do not have this asset to as great a s degree as you.

When you are done with this exercise, you will find you have outranked many successful people on at least one asset.

There is only one conclusion There is only one conclusion that you are bigger than you that you are bigger than you think.think.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in pounds, college degrees, or family background; they are always measured by the size of their thinking.

Misconception about thinking big!

we think only in pictures/images.If you convey a group of people that, “I’m sorry to report we have failed”. Now people only see defeat and disappointment that the word, “failed” conveys.Instead if you would have conveyed that, “Here’s a new approach that I think will work.”, they would feel encouraged, and be ready to try again.

Misconception about thinking big!

we think only in pictures/images.If you convey a group of people that, “I’m sorry to report we have failed”. Now people only see defeat and disappointment that the word, “failed” conveys.Instead if you would have conveyed that, “Here’s a new approach that I think will work.”, they would feel encouraged, and be ready to try again.

4 ways to develop big thinker’s vocabulary

Use big, positive, cheerful words and phrases to describe how you feel.

Use bright, cheerful, favorable words and phrases to describe other people.

Use positive language to encourage others. Use positive words to outline plans to others.

Develop your power to see what can be, not just what is

Practice adding value to things. Practice adding value to people. Practice adding value to yourself.

Method to curb quarrels?

Most importantly, Before complaining or reprimanding someone, just ask yourself, “Is it really important?”.

In most cases, it isn't and you avoid conflict.

Procedures to help yourself think about trivialities:

Don't fall into the triviality trap.

In making speeches, solving problems, counseling employees, think of those things that really matter, things that make the difference.

Remember! It pays in every way to think big!

Use words that promise victory; hope, happiness, pleasure.

Avoid words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat & grief.

Stretch your vision: See what can be, not just what is.

Remember! It pays in every way to think big!

Get the big view of your job.

Think, really think your present job is important.

Remember! It pays in every way to think big!

How to think big

Visualization adds value to everything.

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How to Think Big• Discover That Success Is Measure by the Size of your Thinking

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How to Think Big• Discover That Success Is Measure by the Size of your Thinking

HOW TO THINK AND DREAM CREATIVELY

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What is creative thinking?? Creative thinking is finding new, improved ways to do

anything.

To develop and strengthen our creative thinking To develop and strengthen our creative thinking ability:ability:

Step one: Believe it can be done. When you believe, your mind find ways to do it Believing paves the way for creative solutions Your mind will create a way if you let it

Step 2 -Eliminate the word impossible from your thinkingEliminate the word impossible from your thinking traditional thinker's mind is paralyzed.

Three ways to fight traditional thinking –

Become receptive to ideasBe an experimental personBe progressive, not regressive

How to start your day creatively

Ask yourself how can I do better?

Just before starting your day ask yourself – How can I do a better job today? What can I do to encourage my employees? What special favour can I do for my customers? How can I improve my personal efficiency?

Capacity is a state of mind

In business , home , community try these two steps –

1. accept the opportunity to do more take on a new responsibility as a compliment

2. concentrate on "How can I do more?"

3 stage program to strengthen your creativity through asking and listening:

1. Encourage others to talk to people.2. Test your own views in the form of questions. Let other people help you smooth and polish your ideas. 3. Concentrate on what the other person says. Listening means letting what's said penetrate your mind.

Output expansion

Why not ask yourself, 'What can I do to expand my output?“

Your mind will creatively show you how.

Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking.

How to stimulate your mind in your daily life To get mental stimulation incorporate into your pattern

of life- 1. Join and meet regularly with at least one professional

group that provides stimulation in your own occupational area.

Rub shoulders-and minds-with other success-oriented people.

How to stimulate your mind in your daily life

2. Join and participate in at least one group outside your occupational interests

Association with people who have different job interests helps you to see the big picture

Harnessing and developing your ideas Use these three ways to harness and develop your ideas 1. Don't let ideas escape. Write them down. Carry a note- book or some small cards with you

Harnessing and developing your ideas 2. Next, review your ideas. File these ideas so long as

the idea has any promise, keep it.

Harnessing and developing your ideas

3. Cultivate and fertilize your idea. Now make your idea grow.

Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. put it to work for yourself, your job, your future

How to 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!

Be progressive in everything you do. Ask yourself daily: “How can I do better?” Firmly believe it can be done

YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU

ARE

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Your Appearance Talks !

Your appearance talks to you. It builds up your confidence.

The appearance also talks to others to make them say that this is an important, intelligent, prosperous and dependable person.

How To Sell Yourself To Yourself ?

Give yourself a pep talk several times a day.

What makes the mind think the way it does ?

• The mind is what the mind is fed. • The mind reflects what its environment

feeds it.• Environment shapes us, makes us think

the way we do.

Reconditioning yourself for success Develop a defense against people who want to

convince you that you can’t do it. Be sure you are in the flock that thinks right.

NEGATIVEEGATIVE

Reconditioning yourself for success Don’t let negative thinkers pull you down to

their level. Cling to the people who think progressively.

Seek advice from people who know

• It is a myth that successful people are inaccessible.

Throw thought poison out of your environment.

Avoid gossip.

Talk about people, but stay on the positive side.

You are what you think you are

Practicing uplifting self-praise helps us to gain confidence.

You are what you think, think more of yourself and there is more of you.

Follow the principle: Sell yourself to yourself

Look important: it will help you to think important.

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

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 Are

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