Carolyn Smagalski

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Norman Vincent Peale wrote, "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."  In order to truly succeed, you need to manage the way you think about yourself and your ability to succeed.

You must master your beliefs about yourself.  Make a decision to succeed.  Eliminate fears and self-doubt.  Avoid negative images that create scenarios in which failure is a possibility.  In fact, cut off all possibilities except success.  Mentally focus on the positive, and only the positive.  Understand how your mind filters information, and adjust your beliefs to see all occurrences as useful.  Make a decision to use everything that happens in a way that will contribute to your success.  

Define the reason for what you are doing.  If you put in 1,000% effort and learn something, you increase your chances at success.  You may still stumble on unforeseen impediments, but the preparation in which you have invested will provide you with detours around those challenges, opening the way to firm resolve and greater self-confidence.  Accept the results as feedback - as a source from which you have learned something - never as failure.  Learn from the actions of yourself and others.

Competence happens in a moment.  If you are unsure of what to do, act as if you already know what to do, and do it.  There is always a way to accomplish what you want.  Commitment creates tremendous power.

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.  Most men succeed because they were determined to," wrote George Allen.  You can direct the circumstances of your world by careful consideration of the initial challenge, examining the strategy needed to achieve your results, and following through until it happens.  Stay with it until…

Recommended Reading: 

Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.

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