Do you think
BIG?- Submitted by Group 13
By
David J. Schwartz
Content• Believe You Can and You Will• Cure Yourself of Excusitis• Build Confidence and Destroy Fear• How to Think Big• How to Think and Dream Creatively• You Are What You Think You Are• Manage Your Environments: Go First Class• Make Your Attitudes Your Allies• Think Right Toward People• Get The Action Habit• How to Turn Defeat Into Victory• Use Goals to Help You Grow• How to Think Like A Leader
and really believe
you can and you will
Do you think YOU can move a mountain?
Believe…really believe…
you can move a mountain
and… YOU can!
Don’t worship celebrities and leaders
Respect themLearn from them
Study them
Believe you can surpass them
Think success don’t think failure
Think Big! The size of your success is
determined by the size of your
beliefRemind yourself regularly that
you are better than you think you are
How to develop power of belief?
How to cure Exusitis?
Age: I am too old
Health: I am ill
Unintelligence:I am not that intelligent
3 Types of Excusitis
How to cure age Excusitis?
• Look at your present age positively
• Compute the productive time you still have
• Invest future time in doing what you really want to do
How to cure health Excusitis?
Refuse to worry
about your health
Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as it is
It’s better to wear out than rust out
How to cure intelligence Excusitis?•Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others
• My attitudes are more important than my intelligence
• The ability to think is of much greater value than the ability to memorize facts
How to build confidence
destroy
Isolate your fear Pin it down. Determine
exactly what you are afraid of
Take Action There is some kind of action for any kind of
fear
Be decisiveHesitation only enlarges,
magnifies the fear
How to cure fear and win confidence?
Lack of self confidence??Efficiently manage your memory bank• Deposit only positive thoughts• Withdraw only positive
thoughts
Fear of other people??• Get a balanced view of the
other fellow.• Develop an understanding
attitude
Managed motions can change emotions
Confident action produces confident thinking. Below are 5 confidence building exercises:
1) Be a front seater2) Practise making eye
contact3) Walk 25 percent faster4) Practise speaking up 5) Smile Big
How to
22 year olds are concerned about retirement plans
SUCCESS IS DETERMINED BY HOW BIG WE THINK
SUCCESS VS SECURITY
The greatest human weakness is self-depreciation
Philosophers say, KNOW THYSELF
People interpret it as know only thy negative self
#1. Determine your five chief assets
You will outrank many in at least one asset
#2. Under each asset, name 3 people who have achieved
large success but who do not have this asset to as
great degree as you
How to measure your true value?
I am sorry that we have failed.
To think BIG, we must use words and phrases which produce
big, positive mental images
Here’s a new approach that I think will work!
SEE WHAT CAN BE, NOT JUST WHAT IS!
What determines howmuch you are worth?
Don’t let what you have not got to stop you!
Practise Adding Value1. TO THINGS2. TO PEOPLE3. TO YOURSELF
BIG THINKERS SEE THEMSELVES AS MEMBERS OF A TEAM EFFORT, AS
WINNING OR LOSING WITH THE TEAM, NOT BY THEMSELVES
Don’t let petty, insignificant things block your way to
achievement
Grow big by thinking big
How to think and dream
Creatively?
OR Polio vaccine?
OR writing a novel
?Experiment to discover electricity?
What do you call creative thinking?
Then, chances
are you are
thinking
WRONG!!
It is much more than all this
How to develop and strengthen it?
1. Believe it can be done
2. Be receptive to new ideas
3. Ask yourself, "How can I do better?"
4. Ask yourself, "How can I do more?
There is no limit to self-improvement
Capacity is a state of mind
5. Ask and listen
6. Stretch your mind
Mix with people of different occupational and social interests
YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!!
1. Look important
It helps you think importantYour appearance talks to
others
2. Think your work is important
Your subordinates will think their work is important too
3. Build a "sell yourself-to-yourself"
commercial
Remind yourself at every opportunity that you're a first-
class person
4. Ask yourself"Is this the way an important
person thinks?"
Then obey the answer
Manage your environment because it is
food for your mind
Make your environment work for you, not against you!!
Don’t let suppressive forces the negative
you–can’t–do–it people – make you think defeat
Make It A Rule To Seek Advice From People Who Know
Get Plenty Of Psychological Sunshine
Circulate in new
groups
Friends with
different views
Guard your psychological environment Friends who stand above petty, unimportant things
Throw Thought – Poison Out Of Your Environment
Go First Class In Everything You Do
You can’t afford to go any
other way
Grow The “I’m Activated” AttitudeWhen you find yourself disinterested in something1.
dig in &
learn
Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude2. Life up everything about yourself
Act Alive!!
Grow The “I’m Activated” Attitude3.
Grow The “You Are Important” Attitude
Appreciate
Others
Call
people
by
their
name
Grow The “Service First” Attitude
Give People more than they expect to get
How to think right
toward people?
1. Practice being kind of person people like
Make yourself lighter to lift…
2. Take initiative in building friendshipsBe
proactive…
3. Accept human differences & limitations
Everyone of us is unique…
4. Find qualities to like in a person, not things to dislike
Think positive…
5. Practice conversation generosity
Encourage others to talk…
7. Don’t blame others for your failures
How you think when you lose determines how long
it will be until you win..
How to inculcate
the habit of ACTION?
Be an
Activationist
Be someone who does
things…
2. Don't wait until conditions are perfect
They never
will be!
3. Ideas alone won't bring success
They have value only when you act upon
them…
4. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence
Do what you
fear, and fear
disappears…
5. Start your mental engine mechanically
Don't wait for the spirit to
move you.
6. Think in terms of now
Tomorrow never comes
7. Don't waste time
getting ready to act
Start acting NOW!!
8. Seize the initiative
Chances wait for none.
How to turn
defeat into
victory?
1. Study setbacks to pave your way to success
Failures are success in
disguise…
2. Have the
courage to be
your own constructive critic
Find your weaknesses & faults and correct them.
3. Stop blaming
luck
Find out what went
wrong
4. ExperimentBe persistent.
5. Have Faith
Everything has a good side
How to use goals to help you
grow?
1. Be clear where you want to go
2. Write out your ten-year
plan
Your life is too important to be left to chance…
3. Surrender yourself to your desires
Set goals to get more energy
4. Let your major goal be your automatic pilot
5. Achieve your goal
one step at a time
A detour simply means another route…
6. Take detours in stride
7. Invest in yourself
Purchase those things that build
mental power and efficiency.
How
to
think
like a
leader
?
1. Trade minds with the people you want to
influence
It is a magic way to get
others act the way you want them to act
2. Apply the "Be-Human" rule in your dealings with others
Give others the kind of treatment you like to receive.
3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress
Think improvement in everything you do.
4. Take time out to confer with yourself and tap your supreme
thinking power
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References
• Magic of thinking big by David J. Schwartz• https://www.flickr.com/• www.startv.com• www.images.google.com
Prof. Sameer MathurIndian Institute of Management, LucknowMarketing Professor: August 2013 – Present
McGill UniversityMarketing Professor: July 2009 – July 2013
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPh.D. in Marketing : August 2003 – June 2009
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