Every Sunday, I extract wisdom from my favourite books and create exercises to apply whats in them.
Hope this brings value to you :)
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz, PhD
This is one of my favourite books.
It is both MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRING
“Think Big and you’ll live big. You’ll live big in happiness. You’ll live big in accomplishment. Big in income. Big in friends. Big in respect... Start now, right now, to discover how to make your thinking make magic for you. Start out with this thought of the great philosopher Disraeli: ‘Life is too short to be little.’”
Take a paper and a pen right now, and write down 3 areas in your life where you have been thinking too little.
For example:
Your financial goals might have been : I want to pay off my credit card debts. Or I want to pay off my students loans. Or I want to be able to pay my bills and buy food.
This mindset of thinking to accomplish the bear minimum will get you the bear minimum.
Get out of this way of thinking, even if it’s just for now, and that exercise.
Change your goals and think big.
Replace the “I want to pay off my credit card debt” by “ I want to be able to go on holidays whenever I want to. I want to go be able to go on a tropical island every week end. I want ABUNDANCE.
Get into the mindset of LIVING YOUR DREAMS instead of surviving with the bear minimum.
Surviving is NOT EQUAL to Living
In this book, D. J Schwartz goes straight to the meat of things and writes how the first step to success ( in any field ) is to believe in yourself.
To believe that you can succeed.
Exercise:
Right now, write down the first thing that you can think of, something that you really wanted to do but didn't do it because you thought you didn't have the power to do so.
Because you didn't have the skill.
Or the looks.
Or the talent.
Or the connexions or network.
Maybe you wanted to be a painter but never picked up a brush because you didn't think you were talented enough ?
Or maybe you really wanted to write a book but felt illegitimate to do so because you don't consider yourself an “expert” ?
It can be anything. Maybe you met a guy or a girl and didn't ask him/her out because you thought he/she was “out of your league” ?
Write it down, and then say this in front of the mirror :
“ I didn't follow through on my dream because I was scared to fail”
“I didn't succeed because I had DOUBT.”
“I didn’t reach my Goals because I wasn’t CONFIDENT. “
I HAVE FAILED IN THE PAST BECAUSE I WAS THINKING SMALL
How does that make you feel?
If you’re like me, that should make you feel terrible. At least I hope it does. Because here is the next step in todays exercise.
Exercise:
PROMISE YOURSELF THAT YOU WILL NEVER EVER SELL YOURSELF SHORT AGAIN.
Write it on the wall, stick a post it on your mirror, in your car, on the fridge. Tell your friends and family, make yourself accountable.
I will never sell myself short, ever again.
Commit to thinking big.
Commit to believe that everything is, in fact, possible.
Lets move on.
Second page of the book : “ All of us, more than we recognise, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big”
Exercise:
What in your environment, is blocking you from thinking BIG?
This is not an exercise to blame anyone for your lack of success. You must realise that you are, in part, the product of your environment. So what things or people, in your environment, make you think too small of yourself?
Basically here I have just talked about the contents of the preface. I will make another video on the rest another time.
I think it’s enough food for thought for today, and I really recommend that you get yourself a copy of that book and study it thoroughly. Underline, take notes, organise your notes, and most of all, practice what you learn.
Remember that :
“Knowledge is not power, but potential power” Tony Robbins
Let’s wrap this up with two small quotes from the book that illustrates really well what we have been talking about here:
“ When you believe I-can-do-it, the how-to-do-it develops.”
And along those lines:
“The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it”.
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