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How can we become a big thinker?
Posted on: July 1, 2011
When success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, pounds or in term of their family background or wealth, people are measured in term of the size of their thinking. The bigger people think and act, more successful will they be.
The question is: How can we think Big?
In this blog post, I will share ideas from David Schwartz book, The Magic of Thinking Big!
A practical exercise
Here is a practical exercise which is used in certain motivational training workshops by David Schwartz which can be used by us too:
1. What are our five chief assets or qualities? We need to list them down.
We can take help of any our our friend or some one who can assess us. Those qualities may include our education or a particular skill or appearance or home life or any other item.
2. We need to write down names of three people who don’t have any of those assets but are still successful in life. (We need to look around and think hard on this but believe me, we will find some people who don’t have the qualities we have but those people are still successful)
David Schwartz says that once we complete the above exercise, we will realize that we outrank many people in life! We have certain qualities and certain assets which are not available with many successful people. If this is the case, we can be successful too.
Big Thinker’s style of talking:
Big thinkers are able to create a positive picture in minds of other people even when there is no good news to tell e.g. Instead of saying: We incurred a big expense, big thinkers say: We made a big investment!
Or, instead of saying that: We are afraid to report that we failed, big thinkers say: We need to make another attempt.
Let’s think of the situation when a person comes to us and say that we face a big problem.
This will create an image of despair and gloom. Instead this can be phrased as: We have a challenge to deal with.
In order to be a ‘big thinker’, we need to create positive mental pictures – all the time!
We need to look at things not as they are in the present but what could those things be in the future.
An architect visualizes a house which is not built yet. An entrepreneur visualizes a successful business when there is no business plan on paper. A painter constructs a master piece in mind first before putting it on paper.
Why can’t we visualize success when it is yet to come?
Let’s try this: Whenever we have an issue or challenge, let’s use the words which create a positive picture and not a negative one.
Your thoughts?
Top 5 self help books
Posted on: January 4, 2011
Based on blogging for around a year now, I would like to list down top five books which I have found to be quite interesting and can be recommended as a preliminary reading for any one who is interested in learning, growth, self development and getting inspired.
I have developed the list with links from my blog so that you can read more about the book and some of the ideas after which you can make your mind about reading the whole book.
I would recommend these book to students, busy professionals, business executives, entrepreneurs and any one who is looking forward to learn from the experiences of other people. Here is the list:
5. What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School?
This is the book written by a person who created a multi million dollar business from an initial capital of US $ 500 – Marck Mc Cormack! If you are interested in learning from experiences of a street smart executive, this is the book to read. In areas of people management, sales and business, one can learn a lot from this book. You can read more from http://wp.me/pHUHq-6x
4. The power of thinking big
Dr. David Schwartz has written this inspiring book on developing a positive mental attitude through use of right vocabulary and right attitude. You can read more from http://wp.me/pHUHq-da
3. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
If you are interested to learn about secrets of rich, this is the book. Why are some people rich and why some are not? Are there some habits which rich people have and others don’t? R. Kiyosaki has written this powerful and interesting book in a very simple and easy to understand manner. Read more from: http://wp.me/pHUHq-S Read the rest of this entry »
How can we distinguish big thinkers from small thinkers?
Quite simple.
By listening to their vocabulary and words they use.
Listen to people around you and concentrate on the words they are using.
Just try ‘listening to others’ for one day and will help us to understand that positive people use positive words.
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and the mind of others.
To think big, we must use words and phrases which produce big and positive mental images. How can we develop the big thinker’s vocabulary? Here are four ideas on how can we use big thinkers’ vocabulary: Read the rest of this entry »
3 words successful people use…
Posted on: September 20, 2010
Are successful people problem free?
Let’s think about all the successful people whom we are aware of: Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet or any other successful person around us –
Do we think they don’t have any ‘problem’?. Certainly, life is full of problems. The question is: what is the vocabulary of successful people when they use to define their problem.
Let’s start from the vocabulary of successful people. Do they use the word ‘problem’ again and again during their conversation?
The way we think about our problems determines our attitude, or approach, as well. We can use three words to change our attitude and our approach to any difficulty we face.
First of all, let’s change the word “problem” to the word Read the rest of this entry »
When you visit any lunchroom in any big company, what do you hear?
Gossip. Complains. Bitter talk. Negativity.
Have you been to any family gathering around dinner time? What are people generally talking about?
Gossip. Complains. Bitter talk. Negativity.
Here is list of expression which we generally hear:
“I don’t want this backache.”
“I don’t want this headache.”
“I don’t want these bills.”
“I don’t want to struggle in my job.”
As per Joe Vitale, What we don’t realize is we are activating the Attractor Factor in a negative way. When we say, “I don’t want these bills,” our focus is on—you guessed it—
bills!
The spirit of life will deliver whatever you focus on. At times we have ‘FEAR’. Fear is in fact, ‘wrongly-directed’ faith! We are focusing and believing a negative thought – that’s what the fear is!
How did Socrates, the famous philosopher avoided negativity?
Here is one of the stories from Socrates:
One day, a man rushed up to Socrates, saying, “I have some news to tell you!” Socrates put up his hand to stop the excited man.
“First let me ask you three questions,” Socrates said. “Ah, er, okay,” said the man.
“Is the news you are about to tell me something you personally know to be true?”
“Well, no,” replied the man. “I heard it from a good source, though.”
“Then let’s go to the second question,” Socrates said.
“Is the news you want to tell me about someone you know personally?”
“Well, no,” the man said. “But I think you know the person.”
“I see,” said Socrates. “Then let me ask you my final question. Is this news positive or negative?”
“Well, it’s negative.”
“Let me see,” said the wise Socrates. “You want to tell me some news that you don’t know personally to be true, about someone you don’t know at all, and that is negative.”
“Well, it sounds bad when you put it like that.”
“I think I’ll pass,” Socrates said.
Five steps to attract whatever you want:
“The Attractor Factor” by Dr. Joe Vitale is a book which explains five steps to create wealth (or anything else) from inside out. Here are five steps explained in detail in the book by the author:
1. Know what you don’t want. 2. Select what you do want. 3. Clear all negative or limiting beliefs.
4. Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want.
5. Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, and allow the results to manifest.
You may visit his website www.mrfire.com to know more about him. More from the books in coming days. Your thoughts?
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