You can If you Think you can
by Norman Vincent Peale

One
The persistence Principle: It's Always too soon to quit
Never talk Defeat
Change your thinking to meet problems in a positive, constructive way.
Call on your Grit


"The Quitter",
by Robert W. Service
It's the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don't be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit:
It's keeping-your-chin-up that's hard.
It's easy to cry that you're beaten-and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight-
Why, that's the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each grueling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.


Keeping at it gets results
The Perception Principle
To be effective, the persistance principle must be supported by another vital principle-the perception principle and the power that derives from it.
You must see yourself as you really are and deal with yourself on that honest basis.
Call on your inner potential
In day-to-day activities we are often confronted by situations where our ability to think positively and never give up is called upon.
Keep on keeping on
1. When tackling a problem the number-one thing is, never quit attacking. Always use the persistance priciple.
2. Remember-you can get over those big mountains of difficulties by thinking over them.
3. Adopt the motto, "It's always too soon to quit." Keep it going.
4. Use upbeat words. Never talk down. Speak the Good Word.
5. Plugging away will win the day.
6. Master the perception principle. Learn to know yourself. Know the real person deep within you.
7. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
8. Do not let circumstances defeat you. With your mind, control circumstances. You can if you think you can.
9. Just keep on keeping on-just keep trying-for that will do it. Keep going. It can turn out O.K.
10. And God bless you all the way.

Two

So What's your problem? You can handle it
"Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution."
Wanted: No more problems
Problems, a Sign of Life
Problems constitute a sign of life. The more problems you have, the more alive you are.
The chief problem is how to cope
Three procedures were vital to the successful handling of problems: (1) knowledge, (2) thought, and (3) belief; or to put it another way, know, think, believe.
Have a Problem? Congratulations!
You Can think your way through anything
Cool it when a problem comes
All the ideas you need to handle any problem are all about you, both within and without you mind.
Freddie the Thinker
Free Ice Water
A Success Formula that works
1. A problem is inherently good, not inherently bad as is commonly supposed.
2. Only alive people have problems. And the more you have, the more alive you are. So be glad you have problems.
3. Get all the possible know-how about your problem. Knowledge of the problem is a key to successful solution.
4. When a problem comes, do not react emotionally-cool it.
5. The mind will not function when it is hot, only when it is cool and factual.
6. Think-the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
7. Believe you can. Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Four
Motivation that really motivates
1. It puts the fire within you-the fire that gets the inner power going.
2. It reveals your own talents. Do you really know your own potentially? Search for it, for it's there. Then release it.
3. Don't be a hold-out-be an all-out.
4. And whatever you do, never be a half-a-minder.
5. Remember that the most powerful motivation is spiritual motivation. So expose yourself to the spiritual.
6. Keep alert to the magic motivational word that can reactivate and change you from indifferent to dynamic living.
7. Associate with motivational people.
8. Cultivate motivational ideas; ideas that pulsate with go power.
9. In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.
10. Image your goal. Hold that image in consciousness. Keep that image always before you and your goal will materialize.

Five
Keep on believing in yourself-Have confidence

1. Remember that self-trust is the first secret of success. So trust yourself.
2. Having learned to believe in yourself, be like Lombardi's football stars: Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.
3. Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.
4. Be sure to image right, for we tend to become as we see ourselves. So see yourself confidently.
5. Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
6. If you've never really found yourself, do so. Then you'll start liking yourself, and with good reason.
7. You can if you think you can. Engrave those seven words deeply in consciousness. They are packed with power and with truth.

Six
You can if you think you can
1. You can if you think you can. As you think, so shall it be. Then think that you can and you can, indeed.
2. Remember Thomas A. Edison's dynamic statement: "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
3. As Rudyard Kipling says, "We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse."
4. There may not be a tiger in your tank, but there for sure is an eagle in your mind.
5. Be glad you were never told what you couldn't do. And if you have been, repudiate the statement.
6. Drop the word "impossible" from your mental processes.
7. "This world is moving so fast that the man who says it can't be done is interrupted by someone doing it."
8. You can make the impossible possible.
9. Never-never-settle for defeat.
10. You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Seven
What are you afraid of? Forget it!
1. Two great forces operate in the mind: fear and faith. Fear is very powerful, but faith is more powerful.
2. Faith power in the mind, like adrenalin in the body, can release amazing powers within you in crisis.
3. And remember, the same power is there within you apart from crisis and may be drawn upon always to keep fear down.
4. Take a long, straight look at your fear. Know it for the ghostly thing it is and stand firmly up to it. Practice the strong action technique.
5. When you are afaird, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
6. Self-knowledge and insight will overcome fear. This may require professional counseling. When you know the origin of your fears you are then in a position to deal with them.
7. Develop a strong, healthy-minded faith. Fear will wither as your faith grows.
8. Commit the following statement to memory and say it now and then: "I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:4"

Eight
Expect a Miracle-Make miracles happen

1. First, expect a miracle and keep your sense of wonder going.
2. Have motivation, a deep inner self-belief, and never let anyone or anything take it from you. Remember Walt-Disney.
3. Be proud you live in a country where miracles can happen-where you can make dreams come true.
4. Always think upbeat-think hopefully. Never let thought paralysis get into your mind.
5. Miracles are made not only from dreams, but from everyday nonglamorous facts like thinking and working and keeping on keeping on. 6. Keep probing for the tremendous quality built into you which has not yet emerged.
7. Always be on the lookout for the big idea that can change your life.
8. Know that you are yourself a miracle. And believe you can make miracles happen-by thinking, praying, believing, working, and by helping people.
9. Remember that miracles are made by people who can because they think they can.

Nine
Bored? Frustrated? Fed Up? What to do about it

"Life has lost its meaning for me."
"I'm fed up."
"That gripes me."
"Everything's a mess."
"I'm pooped."
"I'm bored stiff."
"Everything bugs me."
"I'm sick and tired of it all."
"Life is the same old stuff."
"Out of this world" people
"Life is terrific, and I mean terrific."
"Everything's great, really great."
"Boy, am I getting a charge out of living."
"This is it and I don't mean maybe."
"I feel good, really good."
"Bored? Are you kidding?"
1. Get this basic fact firmly in mind-you do not need to be bored, frustrated, or fed up.
2. Concentrate on exciting motivation. Boredom can't live with it.
3. Get with the philosophy which teaches us to "Rejoice with unutter-able and exalted joy."
4. Don't shy off real spiritual faith. It's packed with excitement that burns out boredom.
5. Remember: If you love life, life will love you back.
6. Get away from dirty and noisy cities. Get with streams, meadows, mountains, if at all possible. Nature siphons off boredom.
7. Like one-listless Larry, practice excitement. Practice excited thinking until you become excited. And always know for a fact that you can if you think you can.
8. Level with yourself. Things are better than they seem.
9. Associate with excited people. Let their excitement rub off on you.
10. Keep thinking, keep moving, keep participating.

Ten
Never think of failing-you don't need to
1. Formulate a goal; not a fuzzy, vague goal, but one that is sharp, clearly defined and specific-very specific.
2. Pray about that goal to be sure it is right, for if it isn't right, it's wrong, and nothing wrong ever turns out right.
3. Put that goal into your conscious mind, holding the image there tenaciously until it sinks into the unconsciousness. And when it does you will have it, because it has you-all there is of you. 4. Then give it all you've got of thought, effort, imagination, and innovation.
5. Work, and then work, and then work.
6. Never, never, never give up-keep it going, going, going-know that you can if you think you can.
7. Tell yourself every day of your life until you believe it away down deep that you shall never think of falling. You don't need to.

Eleven
All the resources you need are in your mind
1. Believe that you have inherent in your mind all the resources you will ever need.
2. Build up your resources inventory by faith and know-how.
3. Remember that spiritual power activates your forces of mind and spirit.
4. Never minimize your ability to think your way through any situation.
5. If power isn't coming through, find the block and remove it.
6. Keep alert for those flashes of insight which come when you're really thinking.
7. Skip "if only"; concentrate on "next time." 8. Never bog down in a defeat psychology. Always, in the midst of defeat, keep looking for victory.
9. Be bold, and mighty powers will come to your aid.
10. The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Twelve
Ways to Foster Health, Vitality, Aliveness
1. Realize that you can of yourself do much to make yourself a healthy.
2. Affirm and keep on affirming that the powerful life force is flowing through your mind, your spirit, your body.
3. Rid yourself of all sick thoughts-hate, resentment, inferiority, and the like.
4. Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
5. Keep your mind tuned up to keep your body in tone.
6. Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.
7. Help the doctor by thinking healthy thoughts. Remember that while the doctor treats you, God heals you.
8. Think health, practice health, pray health.
9. See yourself as a whole person.
10. Visualize God, who created you, as constantly re-creating you in every element of being.

Thirteen
Ease Up! Have a sense of humor
1. Don't get stirred up and in a dither. Take it easy-like.
2. Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.
3. Practice word therapy-serenity, urbanity, imperturbability, equanimity. Say those powerful, mind-healing words over to yourself every day. Let them sink into consciousness, reconditioning your stressful attitudes.
4. Like General Eisenhower, take the hands which life deals you and play them out without griping. You will come out O.K.
5. Get in harmony; easy does it; don't over-press.
6. Don't take yourself too seriously.
7. Never let the excitable immediacy of our time throw you. Keep your sense of humor. It's not all that bad.
8. You can live with all the confusion of today's world if you think you can. So practice thinking that you can.

Fourteen
Get on top of things and stay there
1. Always keep hope going for you.
2. Believe, and never stop believing, that the tide always comes back.
3. Realize there is more potential strength built into you than you have ever demonstrated.
4. To use an old-fashioned but powerful phrase-dare to be what you want to be and can be.
5. Never take no for an answer.
6. Do your best and leave the results to God.
7. Drop the three L's-lack, loss, limitation-from your vocabulary.
8. Hold the image of the life you want and make the image become fact.
9. Keep on hitting; keep on trying.
10. And don't forget prayer. It releases power.

-And remember...always remember-
You can if you think you can.

How to Take Charge of Your Life
by Mildred Newman & Bernard Berkowitz

What motivates you?
You had better believe it-and more
No amount of determination, no amount of will power, of inspiration or exhortation is enough as long as you are in the dark about your own secret payoff.

To choose one goal means to give up others.
It means you can't have everything.
It means you can't do everything.
It means you can't be everything.
It means you can't please everybody.
Making a decision reveals something about you
What if everyone loves you but your sense of self is lost?

Leaving Home is Not Enough
Being in charge of your life not only means getting away, leaving your family-it also means putting your family outside of yourself.
Strange idea
It's like: You are about to fall asleep and you remember you haven't brushed your teeth. You feel so sleepy, you don't want to get up, but you know you should. You hassle yourself this way most every night. If you listen to the voices in the argument going on inside you, whose voice do you hear?
It's like: Whenever you get to know someone who might really be the "right" person for you, you suddenly lose interest. Why? Do you secretly think of all the things that "they" might say about that person?

They are the persons whoever raised you
It's not enough to leave physically-you can be thousand miles away and still hear their voices.
The emotional separation does not mean a lack of feeling. It does not mean being cold and distant.
It does mean: You are you, and they are who they are.
Giving up your fantasy family means you'll be gaining a real family-real people.
So there is no cause of guilt. You are not rejecting or hurting the feelings of real people-only those you have created in your imagination.

It takes two seperate people
OK-so you're not carrying them around with you.
Can you avoid getting pulled into them?
When you say, "My life is your life," you entrust the boundaries and shape and direction of your life to the other person.
But you are really not being generous and kind.
You are setting a trap.
You are setting up a situation in which you will inevitably feel
Abused,
Taken advantage of, and resentful.
When you expect another person to protect you from your own unwillingness to be in charge of what you can give, you are placing an impossible demand on that other person.
Instead of gratitude for all your self-sacrifice, you are much more likely to be rejected.
It is impossible to live with a self-sacrificing saint.
When you give up what you want, just to give in to the other person's needs, then you are not there.
And when you are not there, the other person is lonely.
And needs to look for company.

Protect Us from the Power of the Victims
The power of powerless people is remarkable.
Whether you know it or not, you are always influencing the behaviour of others by your response (or lack of response!)
It makes a world of difference to use your powers consciously and constructively, and you will discover that you no longer need to feel like such a victim.
Remember honey draws more flies than vinegar
You can take charge of your life.

Can you do it for yourself?
Your best bet is to know what you want, and go for it.
There is not way you can have this tailor-made exsistance unless you know your own dimensions, unless you know just who you are and exactly what you want to be.

You can take charge of your life
You do not have to take yourself as a prepackaged product coming off the assembly line. There are certain things you have inherited-your coloring, your sex, your bone structure, your height-but what you do with your biological inheritance is up to you. Much of what you are you have made, and it is your right, if not also your obligation, to remake yourself exactly as you see fit.
You know a lot more about what works and what does'nt work for you.
So take a good look at yourself.
If you see something you don't like, the chances are you put it there, and you can change it.

Introduce Yourself to You
It is not self-indulgent to entertain your own thoughts, because only then do you really have enough of yourself to give to others. Otherwise you are simply reflecting what you admire in others back to them.
Don't be afraid that if you really give of what is genuinely and essentially you, you will be depleted.
Quite the contrary. Once you have learned how to tune in on your inner self, you will have tapped a well that never runs dry.

How you feel about yourself throughout the day is life itself
You cannot take charge of the present if you are busy reliving the failures of the past.
Have the courage to confront and deal with your negative feelings.
It's not easy, but don't let the difficulty of all this deter you from the real job of filling in the picture of who you are and what you want for yourself.

Play your own Character
You know, the strength you take to live unhappily, if you take just half of that and put it into living well, you can have a pretty good time."

Getting Into Action
Anxiety is only one of the ways in which you can stop yourself from being the kind of person who is in charge of your own life.
A truly strong person is strong enough to let other people be who they are, and does'nt feel pushed around by the strength of others. A person who feels strong is much more likely to be mild-mannered and easygoing, with an air of quiet confidence.
People are hard on themselves when they should be easy, and too easy on themselves when they should be hard. The only way to avoid these pitfalls is to know yourself well.

How to get lucky?
Once you get on your own side, once you decide to act in your own behalf, you begin to see possiblilities and potentials that you never knew were there. Having learned how to deal with anxiety and doubts, you are free to see new and challenging things. You have the courage to use the strength and creativity you barely suspected you had. This openness to opportunities and possibilities that others may not see is what often goes under the name of "getting lucky."

William H. Murray put it beautifully and effectively:
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elemantary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that never otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Begin it, now.

God Loves You; So Do I



All Things Are Possible to him that believes.
Mark 9:23

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