Thesis: Act like you’re important and above the fray and you will, indeed, be.
Specific Things to Remember:
- How to lick health “excusitis”:
- Refuse to talk about your health.
- Refuse to worry about your health.
- Be grateful that your health is as good as it is.
- Remind yourself it’s better to wear out than rust out.
- How to lick age “excusitis”:
- Consider that your real working life is seventy years – you have time to change
- Think positively about your age
- Action cures fear
- To think or be confident, act that way
- Think only positive thoughts
- Put people in perspective
- Do what your conscience says is right
- Sit in the front seat
- Practice eye contact
- Walk faster
- Practice speaking up
- Smile big
- To think creatively
- Believe it can be done
- Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind
- Ask daily, “How can I do better?”
- Ask daily, “How can I do more?”
- Practice asking and listening
- Seem important to others
- Look important
- Think your work is important
- Give yourself a pep talk
- Ask, is this how an important person thinks?
- Be more likable
- Act likable, act the way you want people to perceive you
- Be the initiator in building friendships.
- Accept that humans are flawed
- Find qualities to like in others so you stop disliking them
- Be courteous, always
- Don’t blame others for your setbacks: how you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
- Think like a leader
- Trade minds with people you want to influence
- Ask, “what is the human way to handle this?”
- Think, believe, and push for progress
- Solitude = growth
- When little people drag you down:
- You win when you refuse to fight with petty people.
- Expect to be sniped at. It’s proof you’re doing good work.
- Remind yourself that snipers are psychologically sick. Feel sorry for them.
- When you feel like you can’t:
- Look important
- Concentrate on your assets
- Put other people in proper perspective
- When an argument feels inevitable:
- Ask, “Honestly, is this important enough to argue about?”
- Remind yourself that you never gain anything by arguing, but you always lose.
- When you feel defeated:
- Regard the setback as a lesson
- Blend persistence with experimentation
- When Romance Starts to Slip:
- Concentrate on the biggest qualities in the person you want to love you
- Do something special – and do it often
“A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.” – Publilius Syrus