As A Man Thinketh
by James Allen
Published in 1904

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The Success Principals
How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
By Jack Canfield

Section 1: The Fundamentals of Success

1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life
   • One hundred percent responsibility for everything
   • You have to give up your excuses
   • If you don’t like your outcomes, changed your responses
   • Everything you experience today is the result of choices you have made in the past
   • If you keep doing what you’ve always done you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got
   • You have to give up blaming
   • You have to give up complaining
   • You are complaining to the wrong person
   • You either create or allow everything that happens to you
   • Yellow Alerts
   • Life becomes much easier
   • It’s simple
   • Simple isn’t necessarily easy
   • Pay attention… your results don’t lie
2. Be Clear Why You’re Here
   • What were you put on this earth to do?
   • Some personal life purpose statements
   • What’s the “why” behind everything you do?
   • You inner guidance system is you joy
   • Staying on purpose
3. Decide What You Want
   • Early childhood programming often gets in the way of what you want
   • Don’t live someone else’s dreams
   • Stop settling for less than you want
   • The yellow notebook
   • Make an “I want” list
   • Is worrying about making a living stopping you?
   • Clarify your vision of your ideal life
   • Your inner global positioning system
   • High achievers have bigger visions
   • Don’t let anyone talk you out of your vision
   • The vision exercise
   • Share your vision for maximum impact
4. Believe It’s Possible
   • You get what you expect
   • You gotta believe
   • Believe in yourself and go for it
   • It helps to have someone else believe in you first
5. Believe in Yourself
   • Believing in yourself is an attitude
   • The choice of what to believe is up to you
   • You have to give up “I can’t
   • Don’t waste your life believing you can’t
   • It’s all about attitude
   • Don’t assume you need a college degree
   • What others think of you is none of your business
6. Become an Inverse Paranoid
   • How do I use this experience to my advantage?
   • Look for the opportunity in everything
   • He say the opportunity
   • God must have something better in store for me
7. Unleash the Power of Goal Setting
   • How much, by when?
   • A goal versus a good idea
   • Write it out in detail
   • You need goals that stretch you
   • Create a breakthrough goal
   • Reread your goals three times a day
   • Create a goals book
   • Carry your most important goal in your wallet
   • One goal is not enough
   • Bruce Lee’s Letter
   • Write yourself a check
   • Considerations, fear, and roadblocks
   • Mastery is the goal
   • Do it now
8. Chunk It Down
   • How to chunk it down
   • Use mind mapping
   • Next, make a daily to-do list
   • Do first things first
   • Plan your day the night before
   • Use the achievers focusing system
9. Success Leaves Clues
   • Who’s already done what you want to do?
   • Why people do not seek out clues
   • Seek out clues
10. Release the Brakes
    • Get out of your comfort zone
    • Don’t be as dumb as an elephant
    • Stop re-creating the same experience over and over!
    • What’s your financial temperature?
    • Change your behavior
    • Change your self-talk with affirmations
    • The nine guidelines for creating effective affirmations
    • A simple way to create affirmations
    • How to use affirmations and visualization
    • Other ways to use affirmations
    • Affirmations work
11. See What You Want, Get What You See
    • How visualization works to enhance performance
    • The process for visualizing your future
    • Adding sounds and feelings to the pictures
    • Fuel your images with emotion
    • Visualization works
    • What if I don’t see anything when I visualize?
    • Use printed pictures to help you
    • Vision board and goal books made their dreams come true
    • Start now
12. Act As If
    • Start acting as if
    • Becoming an international consultant
    • Acting as if in the PGA
    • The millionaire cocktail party
    • Be, Do, and have everything you want… starting now
    • The party that could change your life
    • And the party continues
13. Take Action
    • Talk is cheap!
    • Nothing happens until you take action
    • Ruben Gonzaleze goes for Olympic gold
    • Successful people have a bias for action
    • Ready, fire, aim!
    • Quit waiting
    • Satisfaction comes from enough action
    • Do it now!
    • Give me a break!
    • Fail forward
14. Just Lean Into It
    • Leaning into it creates momentum
    • Be willing to start without seeing the whole path
    • Sometimes you don’t even have to have a clear dream
    • Looking for her underlying motivation
    • “I’m not lost; I’m just exploring”
    • Keep leaning and the path will appear
    • The turning point
15. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
    • Why are you so fearful?
    • You have to be willing to feel the fear
    • Fantasized Experiences Appearing Real
    • How to get rid of fear
    • Replace the physical sensations fear brings
    • Remember when you triumohed in the face of fear
    • Scales down the risk
    • When your fear is really a phobia
    • Take a leap
    • Taking a leap can transform your life
    • Oh, what the heck 0 just go for it!
    • Be willing to put it all on the line for you dream
    • The challenge
    • High attention… low attachement
16. Be Willing to Pay the Price
    • Pain is only temporary… the benefits last forever
    • Practice, practice, practice
    • Olympic atheeletes pay the price
    • Ten times perfectly
    • Determined to be an artist at any cost
    • Whatever it takes
    • Putting in the time
    • It’s about builing momemtium
    • Going through the awkward stage
    • Find out the price you have to pay
17. Ask! Ask! Ask!
    • Why people are afraid to ask
    • How to ask for what you want
    • A telling statistic
    • Ask and it shall be given to you
    • You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by asking
    • Will you give me some money?
    • Start asking today
18. Reject Rejection!
    • Rejection is a myth!
    • SWSWSWSW
      • Some will, some won’t, so what, someone’s waiting
    • 81 nos, 9 straight yeses
    • Just say “next”
      • Colonel Sanders received over 500 rejections before someone believed in his dream
    • Chicken soup for the soul
    • 155 rejections did not stop him
    • He knocked on 12,500 doors
    • Some famous rejections
      • Alexander Graham Bell
      • Stephen King
      • Google’s offer to sell-out to Yahoo
19. Use Feedback to Your Advantage
20. Commit to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement
21. Keep Score for Success
22. Practice Persistence…Never Give Up!
23. Practice the Rule of 5
24. Exceed Expectations

Section 2: Transform Yourself for Success

25. Drop Out of the “Ain’t It Awful” Club
26. Acknowledge Your Positive Past
27. Keep Your Eye on the Prize
28. Clean Up Your Messes and Your Incompletes
29. Complete the Past to Embrace the Future
30. Face What Isn’t Working
31. Embrace Change
32. Transform Your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach
33. Transcend Your Limiting Beliefs
34. Develop Four New Success Habits a Year
35. 99% Is a Bitch—100% Is a Breeze
36. Learn More to Earn More
37. Stay Motivated with the Masters
38. Fuel Your Success with Passion and Enthusiasm

Section 3: Build Your Success Team

39. Stay Focused on Your Core Genius
40. Redefine Time
41. Build a Powerful Support Team
42. Just Say No!
43. Say No to the Good, So You Can Say Yes to the Great
44. Find a Wong to Climb Under
45. Hire a Personal Coach
46. Mastermind Your Way to Success
47. Inquire Within 

    Section 4: Build Successful Relationships

48. Be Hear Now
49. Have a Heart Talk
50. Tell the Truth Faster
51. Speak With Impeccability
52. When In Doubt, Check It Out
53. Practice Uncommon Appreciation
54. Keep Your Agreements
55. Be a Class Act 

    Section 5: Success and Money

56. Develop a Positive Money Consciousness
57. You Get What You Focus On
58. Pay Yourself First
59. Master the Spending Game
60. To Spend More, First Make More
61. Give More to Get More
62. Find a Way to Serve 

    Section 6: Success Starts Now

63. Start Now…Just Do It!
64. Empower Others to Empower Yourself