Review : Yet another 100-ish pages self-help book. There’s seemingly endless stuff that is out of your control. But three things in life you are in total control over are ➊ your thought ➋ your attitude ➌ your effort. The theme of this book revolves around attitude.
Everyone starts with a clean mental window. […] But as you know, there comes a point where life starts throwing some dirt at our windows. And here’s what happens: our windows get …
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• splattered by criticism from parents and teachers
• smudged bu ridicule from peers
• smeared by rejection
• soiled by disappointments
• clouded by doubt
The problem is, the dirt keeps building up, and all too many people do nothing about it. They continue to go through life with a filthy window. They lose their enthusiasm. They get frustrated and depressed. And most tragically, they give up on their dreams – all becuase they failed to clean their attitude windows.
I really liked Keller’s attitude-as-a-window analogy. Here are the rest of the takeaways. Those are nothing more than reminders which we need from time to time
- Law of dominant thoughts
– You become what you think about - Thoughts precedes action
– Your results in every area of your life reflect your deeply held thoughts about yourself
– If your thoughts don’t change, your results won’t change - Repetition is the key
- No overnight success
– Success requires effort, commitment and patience - Visualisation
– Mentally envision a successful outcome
– You have control over the pictures that occupy your mind - Commitment
– The willingness to do whatever it takes - Thoughts → Words → Beliefs → Actions → Results
- Stop complaining
– No on wants to hear neagative news about your illness and your problems
– Complaining reinforces your pain and discomfort
– Complaining accomplishes nothing and diverts you from the constructive actions you could be taking to improve your situation - Confront your fears and be willing to expand your comfort zone
- Get out there and fail
– Failure is essential for growth
– You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try
Quotes
You have to face the fact that some people will disapprove of your decision. I also learned that you often have to let go of some things in your life and take a few steps backward before you can move forward in a new direction.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others
Jonathan Swift
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuse to quit.
Napolean Hill
Doors will open. You don’t have to know at the outset how to achieve your goal. Sure, you’ll be better off if you have a plan of attack, but it’s not essential that every step by mapped out in advance.
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In fact, when you have the willingness to do whatever it takes, the “right” steps are often suddenly revealed to you
Even with a commitment, everything won’t be rosy on your path. Life will test you to see how serious you are about achieveing your objective
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The Dip – the long slog between starting and mastery! (Read here)
The responses to How are you? can be classified into three categories : negative, mediocre and positive.
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Respond with energy and enthusiasm that you’re Great! of Terrific! Say it with a smile and a sparkle in your eye. It doesn’t matter whether or not you completely and totally feel terrific at that moment. Simply apply the act-as-if principle.
To achieve your goals and realise your potential, you must be willing to be uncomfortable – to do things that you’re afraid to do
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