HOW RICH PEOPLE THINK
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I've studied successful people for 40 years and though the diversity you find among them is astounding. I found that they are all alike in one way, how they think that is the one thing that separates successful people from unsuccessful ones. And here's the good news, how successful people think can be learned. If you change your thinking, you can change your life, why you should change your thinking. It's hard to overstate the value of changing your thinking. Good thinking can do many things for you, generate revenue, solve problems and create opportunities. It can take you to a whole new level personally and professionally, it really can change your life. Consider some things you need to know about changing your thinking. One changed thinking is not automatic, sadly, a change in thinking doesn't happen on its own. Good ideas rarely go out and find someone. If you want to find a good idea, you must search for it. If you want to become a better thinker, you need to work at it. and once you begin to become a better thinker, the good ideas keep coming. In fact, the amount of good thinking you can do at any time depends primarily on the amount of good thinking you are already doing two. Changed thinking is difficult. When you hear someone say now, this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it. Nobel Prize winning physicist Albert Einstein, one of the best thinkers who ever lived, asserted thinking is hard work, That's why so few do it, because thinking is so difficult. You want to use anything you can to help you improve the process. Three changed thinking is worth the investment author, napoleon Hill observed. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of man than has ever been taken from the earth. When you take the time to learn how to change your thinking and become a better thinker, you are investing in yourself. Gold mines tap out stock markets, crash real estate investments can go sour, but a human mind with the ability to think well is like a diamond mind that never runs out. It's priceless how to become a better thinker. Do you want to master the process of good thinking? Do you want to be a better thinker tomorrow than you are today? Then you need to engage in an ongoing process that improves your thinking. I recommend you do the following one, expose yourself to good input. Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started because what you put in always impacts what comes out, read books, review, trade magazines, listen to tapes and spend time with good thinkers and when something intrigues you, whether it's someone else's idea or the seed of an idea that you've come up with yourself, keep it in front of you, put it in writing and keep it somewhere in your favorite thinking place to stimulate your thinking two, expose yourself to good thinkers, spend time with the right people as I worked on this section and bounce my ideas off of some key people so that my thoughts would be stretched. I realized something about myself all of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are thinkers now I love all people. I try to be kind to everyone I meet and I desire to add value to as many people as I can through conferences, books, audio lessons, et cetera. But the people I seek out and choose to spend time with all challenge me with their thinking and their actions. They are constantly trying to grow and learn. That's true of my wife, Margaret, my close friends and the executives who run my companies, every one of them is a good thinker. The writer of proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people three choose to think good thoughts. To become a good thinker, you must become intentional about the thinking process regularly, put yourself in the right place to think shape, stretch and land your thoughts make it a priority. Remember thinking is a discipline. Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick Fil, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinking time a high priority. Not only did he say yes, but he told me about what he calls his thinking schedule. It helps them to fight the hectic pace of life that discourages intentional thinking dan says he sets aside time just to think for half a day every two weeks, for one whole day every month and for two or 3 full days every year Dan explains. This helps me keep the main thing, the main thing, since I am so easily distracted, you may want to do something similar or you can develop a schedule and method of your own. No matter what you choose to do, go to your thinking place, take paper and pen and make sure you capture your ideas in writing Four act on your good thoughts, ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War One Flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, I can give you a six word formula for success. Think things through, then follow through five, allow your emotions to create another good thought. To start the thinking process. You cannot rely on your feelings in failing forward. I wrote that you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it. The same is true for thinking. You cannot wait until you feel like thinking to do it. However, I found that once you engage in the process of good thinking you can use your emotions to feed the process and create mental momentum. Try it for yourself after you go through the disciplined process of thinking and enjoy some success, allow yourself to savor the moment and try writing the mental energy of that success. If you're like me, it's likely to spur additional thoughts and productive ideas. Six repeat the process. one Good Thought Does Not Make A Good Life. The people who have one good thought and try to ride it for an entire career often end up unhappy or destitute. They are the one hit Wonders. The one book authors, the one message speakers, the one time inventors who spend their life struggling to protect or promote their single idea. Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, Not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for 50 years to become someone who can mine a lot of gold. You need to keep repeating the process of good thinking, putting yourself in the right place to think, becoming a good thinker isn't overly complicated. It's a discipline. If you do the six things I have outlined, you will set yourself up for a lifestyle of better thinking. But what do you do to come up with specific ideas on a day to day basis? I want to teach you the process that I've used to discover and develop good thoughts. It's certainly not the only one that works, but it has worked well for me. One find a place to think your thoughts. If you go to your designated place to think, expecting to generate good thoughts, then eventually you will come up with some where is the best place to think? Everybody is different. Some people think best in the shower. Others like my friend **** Bigs like to go to a park for me. The best places to think are in my car, on planes and in the spa ideas come to me in other places as well, such as when I'm in bed. I keep a special lighted writing pad on my nightstand. For such times I believe I often get thoughts because I make it a habit to frequently go to my thinking places. If you want to consistently generate ideas, you need to do the same thing. Find a place where you can think and plan to capture your thoughts on paper so that you don't lose them. When I found a place to think my thoughts, my thoughts found a place in me two find a place to shape. Your thoughts rarely do ideas come fully formed and completely worked out. Most of the time they need to be shaped until they have substance. As my friend Dan Ryland says, they have to stand the test of clarity and questioning during the shaping time. You want to hold an idea up to strong scrutiny Many times a thought that seemed outstanding late at night looks pretty silly in the light of day. Ask questions about your ideas, fine tune them. One of the best ways to do that is to put your thoughts in writing, professor, college president and US Senator S. I.