Synopsis – If you can believe you can achieve it. This book is about the power of thought in achieving your personal and monetary goals.
Key Takeaways
Page 34 – “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success”
Learn and grow
Page 36 – “No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality”
If you keep going, how can you lose?
Page 48 – “Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith”
Just like in Pimp, only play the good pictures in your mind
Page 54 –
“If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!”
I need to share poetry with my kids
Page 67 – “Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.”
Feel it, believe it and do it
Page 136 – “It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine”
All things start in your mind
Page 137 – “Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination”
Keep the creative juices flowing
Page 138 – “The creative faculty becomes more alert, more receptive to vibrations from the sources mentioned, on proportion to its development through use”
Good vibes out, good vibes in
Page 140 – “Matter and energy”
Energy follow that energy and make things happen with it.
Page 141 – “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes”
This is true, but also remember that ideas are cheap
Page 146 – “That definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin”
Once you decide, things will become clear
Page 149 – “God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who know exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get just that”
The universe will react you, decide and act
Page 159 – “No man is ever whipped, until he quits – in his own mind”
Never ever give up
Final Thoughts – I loved this book when I first read it, on the re read it wasn’t as good as first thought. Overall its worth a read and it has some great points. Also you can see so much of the self-help and the motivation industry is based on it. 7/10
Stranger in Sydney 