Confidence
Let’s begin with the first step in changing our lives. There are two fundamental conditions that need to be fulfilled so that you can become the person you want to and need to become. The conditions are “confidence,” and “work.”
Doubt and self-distrust are fatal to achievement.
It’s true. And this is the first fundamental that you need to understand. If you don’t believe in yourself, why would someone else believe in you?
Therefore, start this course boldly, trusting us and trusting yourself. Your mental abilities are probably better than you think they are. You may imagine that you have a hopelessly bad memory when it is actually quite normal, and a normal memory is capable of great possibilities.
The problem is not in your memory but in how you use it. All you need to know today is that you have the material. You have the brain power. You have the goods.
Work
There is one other qualification and it is the most important one. WORK. Continued effort is the price we have to pay for progress. This 30 days of Pelmanism is not dull, disagreeable, or hard work. It isn’t going to occupy long periods of your time. But it is work.
Think of this process like a business. One of the biggest problems is that people buy the book and then let it sit there. I’ve done extensive research and all the diet books in the world on the bookshelf do not help you lose weight. They really don’t. You have to read them and carry out the suggestions and instructions in the work.
So don’t just glance over this and think that you’ll catch up later.
Here’s the deal: Give us five minutes a day – do it while your coffee is perking or get up five minutes earlier. Surely you are worth five minutes a day.
What’s in it for you?
Mental efficiency, that’s what. So what’s that all about? Let’s consider the successful business person. Think how useful it would be to him or her to grasp details, to hold them in the mind, to compare them; to remember prices, contracts, the names, addresses, and peculiarities of clients; the extent of stock on hand at the moment, and to foresee the probable future movements of markets. This gives the person a huge advantage over competitors.
Every achievement begins with an idea; each visible successful act is primarily an invisible thought. Consequently, right thinking—in the broad sense—means right action; and it is for this reason that mental efficiency is the foundation of every other kind of efficiency.
That’s it for Day One. That wasn’t too difficult was it? Just remember, you are worth it. Now, your exercise for today is – find FIVE minutes a day and commit to it.
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