Is it possible that the most successful people in the world have very different ideas than most people?
Do you think the Wright brothers would have been able to do what they did if they didn't think it was possible? Was I can't do this the reason Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming? Not to mention Christopher Columbus - can you believe it?
Have you ever thought that a person could be successful in any field, including business, politics, sports, or anything else, even if they were feeling bad about themselves? I.e., I can't do that, that's not possible, or it will never work.
I've been around negative people, and I can tell you that if you don't stop them, they can have a very strong and negative effect on you.
"Look what happens when you put a rotten piece of fruit in a bowl of fresh fruit!"
That's why it's so important, if you want to be successful in life, to be around people who think positively and to share your own positive thoughts and attitudes with people who think the same way.
It's also important to write down your goals and put them somewhere you can see and read them every day.
In the late 1950s, 1500 Yale University students were sent a survey. It asked about things like how good the food was in the canteen and how easy it was to get books from the library. But I'd like to spend more time on the last two questions.
- Do you have goals for yourself?
- Have you put it in writing?
When a postgraduate found out that the questionnaires still existed after 25 years, they decided to do more research on the last two questions. Here are the conclusions he came to.
More than 75% of the students who filled out the survey had goals for their lives.
Only 3.3% had actually written down what they wanted to do.
After finding as many of the 3.3% (51 students) as he could, he found that they had all gone on to do what they wanted to do in business, government, and the professions.
When he talked to the others, they told him that most of what they had done was more by accident than on purpose. They ended up in jobs they hadn't planned on because they hadn't been clear about what they wanted to do.
So, is it safe to say that when you write down your goals, you are actively programming or reprogramming your brain to change how you subconsciously see things?
"Make a clear picture in your mind of yourself succeeding, and keep it there. Don't let go of this picture. Don't let it go away, and your mind will try to build a picture of it."
Norman Vincent Peale was a singer (1898-1993),
guru of positive thinking
I can neither confirm nor deny that an experiment was done at Yale because I wasn't there. But I would like to try my own little experiment to show or show that positive thinking doesn't work.
On my website, www.CorrectMindFrame.com, I've started a blog. The first post is a positive thought I'm going to think about for the next year, and on the anniversary, I'll write about what actually happened on my blog.
I'd like as many people as possible to take part in this project, so I'd like to ask you to visit my website, write down your name and a goal you'd like to reach, and confirm that you'll do what Norman Vincent Peale suggested over the next year. Please ask as many of your friends, coworkers, and other people you know to do the same.
