MAGIC OF THINKING BIG

The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz, PhD  

CONTENTS  

1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will

2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, the Failure Disease

3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

4. How to Think Big

5. How to Think and Dream Creatively

6. You Are What You Think You Are

7. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

8. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

9. Think Right Toward People

10. Get the Action Habit

11. How to Turn Defeat into Victory

12. Use Goals to Help You Grow

13. How to Think like a Leader  

WHAT THIS BOOK WILL DO FOR YOU  

In every chapter of this book you will find dozens of hardheaded, practical

ideas, techniques, and principles that will enable you to harness the tremen

dous power of thinking big, so as to gain for yourself the success, happiness,

and satisfaction you want so much. Every technique is dramatically illustrated

by a real-life case history. You discover not only what to do, but, what is even

more important, you see exactly how to apply each principle to actual situations

and problems. Here, then, is what this book will do for you; it will show you how

you can. Launch Yourself to Success with the Power of Belief

• Win Success by Believing You Can Succeed

• Defeat Disbelief and the Negative Power It Creates

• Get Big Results by Believing Big

• Make Your Mind Produce Positive Thoughts

• Develop the Power of Belief

• Plan a Concrete Success-Building Program

• Vaccinate Yourself Against Excusitis, the Failure Disease

• Learn the Secret That Lies in Your Attitude Toward Health

• Take Four Positive Steps to Lick Health Excusitis

• Discover Why Your Thinking Power Is More Important Than Me
• Intelligence  

• Use Your Mind for Thinking—Not Simply as a Warehouse for Facts

• Master Three Easy Ways to Cure Intelligence Excusitis

• Overcome the Problem of Age—Being “Too Young,” or “Too Old”

• Conquer Luck Excusitis and Attract Good Luck to You

• Use the Action Technique to Cure Fear and Build Confidence

• Manage Your Memory so as to Increase Your Store of Confidence

• Overcome Your Fear of Other People

• Increase Self-confidence by Satisfying Your Own Conscience

• Think Confidently by Acting Confidently

• Learn the Five Positive Steps to Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

• Discover That Success Is Measured by the Size of Your Thinking

• Measure Your True Size and Find Out What Assets You Have

• Think as Big as You Really Are

• Develop the Big Thinker’s Vocabulary with These Four Specific Steps

• Think Big by Visualizing What Can Be Done in the Future

• Add Value to Things, to People, and to Yourself

• Get the “Thinking Big” View of Your Job

• Think Above Trivialities and Concentrate on What’s Important

• Test Yourself—Find Out How Big Your Thinking Really Is

• Use Creative Thinking to Find New and Better Ways to Get Things Done

• Develop Creative Power by Believing It Can Be Done

• Fight Mind-Freezing Traditional Thinking

• Do More and Do It Better by Turning on Your Creative Power  

• Use the Three Keys to Strengthening Creativity by Opening Your Ears and

• Your Mind

• Stretch Your Thinking and Stimulate Your Mind

• Harness and Develop Your Ideas—the Fruit of Your Thinking

• Look Important, Because It Helps You Think Important

• Become Important by Thinking Your Work Is Important

• Build Your Own “Sell-Yourself-to-Yourself” Commercial

• Upgrade Your Thinking—Think Like Important People Think

• Make Your Environment Work for You

• Prevent Small People from Holding You Back

• Manage Your Work Environment

• Get Plenty of Psychological Sunshine During Leisure Hours

• Throw Thought Poison Out of Your Environment

• Go First Class in Everything You Do

• Grow the Attitudes That Will Help You Win What You Want

• Get Activated; Get Enthusiastic

• Develop the Power of Real Enthusiasm

• Grow the “You-Are-Important” Attitude

• Make More Money by Getting the “Put-Service-First” Attitude

• Win the Support of Other People by Thinking Right Toward Them

• Become More Likable by Making Yourself “Lighter to Lift”

• Take the Initiative in Building Friendships

• Master the Technique of Thinking Only Good Thoughts About People  

• Win Friends by Practicing Conversation Generosity

• Think Big, Even When You Lose or Receive a Setback
• Get the Action Habit—You Don’t Need to Wait Until Conditions Are Perfect

• Make Up Your Mind to Do Something About Your Ideas

• Use Action to Cure Fear and Gain Confidence

• Discover the Secret of Mind Action

• Capitalize on the Magic of NOW

• Strengthen Yourself by Getting the “Speak Up” Habit

• Develop Initiative, a Special Kind of Action

• Discover That Defeat Is Nothing More Than a State of Mind

• Salvage Something from Every Setback

• Use the Force of Constructive Self-criticism

• Achieve Positive Results Through Persistence and Experimentation

• Whip Discouragement by Finding the Good Side to Every Situation

• Get a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go in Life

• Use This Plan to Build Your Ten-Year Goal

• Avoid the Five Success-Murdering Weapons

• Multiply Your Energy by Setting Definite Goals

• Set Goals That Will Help You Get Things Done and Live Longer

• Accomplish Your Goals with This 30-Day Improvement Guide

• Invest in Yourself for Future Profit

• Learn the Four Rules of Leadership

• Develop Your Power to Trade Minds with the People You Want to Influence  

• Put the “Be-Human” Approach to Work for You

• Think Progress, Believe in Progress, Push for Progress

• Test Yourself to Learn Whether You Are a Progressive Thinker

• Tap Your Supreme Thinking Power

• Use the Magic of Thinking Big in Life’s Most Crucial Situations