How Successful People Think Workbook: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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If you go to your designated place to think expecting to generate good thoughts, then eventually you will begin to see what others see. And that is a powerful thing. 4. Big-Picture Thinking Promotes Teamwork Take control. It can be difficult to stay intrinsically motivated to pursue a goal if you don't feel that you have any real influence over the outcome. Look for ways that you can take an active role.

world first. For example, when people arrive at a leadership conference put on by my company, they want to Those closest to changes that occur as a result of a new idea can give you a “reality read.” And that’s There are many different tactics for how to be successful in life, but the strategy that works best for you may depend on what success means to you. If you think of success as doing well at work or earning a high salary, your professional goals and accomplishments will take priority. Only by putting your daily activities in the context of the big picture will you be able to stay on target. As The other essential ingredient to developing and applying an effective goal-setting mindset is having sound wisdom of the emotional, personal satisfaction that will signal you have achieved your successes.

1. A Growth Mindset from Intrinsic Motivation

in 1942 and the nuclear bomb in 1945. When scientists developed and implemented Einstein’s ideas, the Reframing difficult situations, to see them as opportunities to learn and grow rather than simply obstacles to live through Find a place where you can think, and plan to capture your thoughts on paper so that you don’t lose them. When This combination is hard to beat. Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something Balancing risk with common sense; being cautious and pragmatic can also pay off, depending upon the situation

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss. Rarely do ideas come fully formed and completely worked out. Most of the time, they need to be shaped It’s hard to overstate the value of changing your thinking. Good thinking can do many things for you: Only by putting your daily activities in the context of the big picture will you be able to stay on target. AsAlvin Toffler says, “You’ve got to think about ‘big things’while you’re doing small things, so that all the smallthings go in the right direction.”3. Big-Picture Thinking Allows You to See What Others See One of the most important skills you can develop in human relations is the ability to see things from theother person’s point of view. It’s one of the keys to working with clients, satisfying customers, maintaining amarriage, rearing children, helping those who are less fortunate, etc. All human interactions are enhancedby the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes. How? Look beyond yourself, your own interests, andyour own world. When you work to consider an issue from every possible angle, examine it in the light ofanother’s history, discover the interests and concerns of others, and try to set aside your own agenda, youbegin to see what others see. And that is a powerful thing.4. Big-Picture Thinking Promotes Teamwork If you participate in any kind of team activity, then you knowhowimportant it is that team members seethe whole picture, not just their own part. Anytime a person doesn’t knowhowhis work fits with that of histeammates, then the whole team is in trouble. The better the grasp team members have of the big picture,the greater their potential to work together as a team.5. Big-Picture Thinking Keeps You from BeingCaught Up in theMundane Let’s face it: some aspects of everyday life are absolutely necessary but thoroughly uninteresting. Big-picture thinkers don’t let the grind get to them, because they don’t lose sight of the all-important overview.They knowthat the person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.6. Big-Picture Thinking Helps You to Chart Uncharted Territory Have you ever heard the expression, “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it”? That phraseundoubtedly was coined by someone who had trouble seeing the big picture. The world was built by peoplewho “crossed bridges” in their minds long before anyone else did. The only way to break newground ormove into uncharted territory is to look beyond the immediate and see the big picture. HOW TO ACQUIRE THE WISDOM OF BIG-PICTURE THINKING If you desire to seize newopportunities and open newhorizons, then you need to add big-picturethinking to your abilities. To become a good thinker better able to see the big picture, keep in mind thefollowing suggestions:1. Don’t Strive for Certainty Big-picture thinkers are comfortable with ambiguity. They don’t try to force every observation or piece ofdata into pre-formulated mental cubby holes. They think broadly and can juggle many seeminglycontradictory thoughts in their minds. If you want to cultivate the ability to think big picture, then you mustget used to embracing and dealing with complex and diverse ideas.2. Learn from Every Experience Becoming a good thinker isn’t overly complicated. It’s a discipline. If you do the six things I have outlined,

10. Dare Greatly

PDF / EPUB File Name: How_Successful_People_Think_-_John_C_Maxwell.pdf, How_Successful_People_Think_-_John_C_Maxwell.epub Einstein, one of the best thinkers who ever lived, asserted, “Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” people from unsuccessful ones. And here’s the good news. How successful people think can be learned. If you