5 LESSONS I LEARNT FROM THE BOOK: THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG

Hello steemians, today I want to write about the lessons I learnt from this great book: THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG

The book; The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz is a highly recommended book for anyone who wishes to achieve personal, financial or business success.
Below are five vital lessons I learnt from this book...

1. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Believe in yourself and good things do start happening. It's also said that your mind is a thought factory. It's a busy factory busy producing countless thoughts in one day.

If you can tell yourself that today is a good day or that today is a bright day, it will definitely be so for you. But if you say, today is a bad day, then it will be so for you.
This is because your words are so powerful!

So believe in yourself and believe you can succeed and you will. Remind yourself regularly that you're better than what you think you are. And also have that in mind that successful people are just ordinary folks who develop believe in themselves and what they do.

Know yourself ,believe in yourself, grow yourself, and communicate with yourself properly, these are the spices of success.

2. AVOID MAKING EXCUSES

There are four common types of excuses people give:

• Age Excuses
• Luck Excuses
• Health Excuses
• Intelligence Excuses

Mostly we do use age and health as a self excuse.

• Health Excuses: People do say, but my health is not good, that's why it is called failure diseases. It's because we fail to accept greater responsibility, fail to make more money, and fail to achieve success because of health excuses.

How To Avoid Health Excuses

1. Refuse to talk about your health
2. Refuse to worry about your health
3. Remind yourself often, "it is better to wear out than to rust out." Because life is yours to enjoy, so don't waste it. Don't pass up living, by thinking yourself into a hospital bed. Just have that in mind.

• Age Excuse: It is no use by saying, I'm too old or I'm too young. That's why the failure disease of never being the right age comes in two ways; I'm too old variety and I'm too young brand.

This age excuse has closed the door of thousands of people's opportunity to become a better person, because they think their age is wrong, so they don't bother to try to see if they can succeed.

So don't think your age matters if you want to do something important for yourself.

3. BUILD CONFIDENCE AND DESTROY FEAR

Build confidence and let go of fear, because dear is real, fear is success' enemy and it gives you a negative imagination, fear makes people sick, fear stop people from capitalising on opportunities.

Truly, fear is a powerful force. In one or the other, fear prevents people from getting what they want in life. All confidence is acquired or developed, because no one is born with confidence.

We Have 7 Different Types of Fears:

1. Fear of what other people may think and say.
2. Fear of things totally beyond your control
3. Fear of failing in a business
4. Fear of losing important people
5. Fear of failing an exam
6. Fear of what people will do
7. Fear of being embarrassed because of your appearance.

Two Steps to Kill Fear & Win Confidence

1. Determine exactly what you're afraid of. This is because your brain is very much like a bank. Everyday you make thoughts deposits in your mind bank. "What do I really know about this?"

   How to build confidence is to let your mind have a positive thought everyday, not a negative thought, because it produces needless word in your mind before you do something,kill the fear in you by thinking positively. Action kills fear!

2. Take Action!

4. GET THE ACTION HABIT

Learn to get the speak up habit. Each time you speak up, you strengthen yourself, you come forward with your constructive ideas. In order to grow the action habits you must have this in mind;

• Be someone who does the things you say you will do.
• Don't wait until your condition is perfect
• Remember, idea alone won't bring success, but ideas have values only when you act upon them.
• Use action to cure fear and gain confidence, do what you fear and fear will disappear from you. The best way to cure fear is to face it. If only you will just try it and see.
• Don't waste time getting ready to act

5. HOW TO THINK BIG

How you can think big, is to create a big positive image in your mind and not a small negative image in your mind. There are five ways of creating a big positive image in your mind.

1. I went broke but it was my own fault, I'm going to try again.
2. Their orders have been small, let's map out a plan and sell them more.
3. Being young or old is a distinct advantage
4. It will work, let me prove it.
5. Let's invest now, bet on prosperity not depression..

Conclusion:
In conclusion, if you can take all these words and practice it, you will surely make it big in life.

Thanks for reading my post!