Strategies to Take Control of Your Life

1. Strategies to Take Control of Your Life Raul Dinzey

2. Overview • Living with purpose desire and goals • Visualizing a better tomorrow • Persisting through your challenges • Taking action

3. Life—You Get What you Ask For I bargained with life for a penny And life would pay no more However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For life is a just employer He gives you what you ask But once you have set the wages You must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn dismayed That any wage I had asked of life, Life would have willingly paid.

4. Principles • Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve • You can do it if you believe you can • The most successful people are those who serve the greatest number of people • Develop a pleasing personality- pleasing to yourself and others

5. Positive Mental Attitude • Is the medium to balance your life and relationships to people and circumstances – to attract what you desire • We are born with: the right to control the thoughts we dwell on and therefore our mental attitude • Is one of life’s riches- through this attitude anything worthwhile is achieved • Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want

6. The Subconscious Mind • Make your emotions work for you • Prayer

7. Flow • Desire backed by a definite goal with persistent action • Auto suggestion visualization and aloud daily reading of definite plan • Master mind alliance working in harmony and a spirit of cooperation

8. Definite Purpose • Is the starting point of all achievement • Without direction you are aimless, directionless and powerless • Know where you are going before starting- self motivated, self driven successful • Decide: • What do you want • Find out how to get it • Then take daily action to achieving your goal

9. Pleasant Personality • Is the aggregate of all the agreeable gratifying and likable qualities of any one individual • Believe in yourself – First and foremost! • What you believe yourself to be – you are • The attitudes you transmit to others will tell more about you than words or how you look • Enthusiasm comes from within- you can develop it by your thoughts feelings and emotions

10. Faith • Is a state of mind we can develop by conditioning our mind to receive infinite intelligence to a definite purpose • The offspring of success or failure come from our thoughts • When faith added to thought the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent and transmit it to infinite intelligence • Faith is the method through which we can harness the cosmic force of infinite intelligence

11. Going the Extra Mile • Give more than what you receive, sooner or later you will be repaid with interest • Every seed of useful service you sow- will multiply and come back to you in overwhelming abundance • Put your mind to work assess your ability and energy • Who could use your help? How can you help? • Ingenuity and strong desire to be of genuine service • Helping others solve their problems will help you solve your own

12. Personal Initiative: Self Drive • Bears the same relationship as a self-starter to an automobile • Is the power that assures completion of what you start • Inner power that starts all action • Is the dynamo that spurs the faculty of your imagination into action and inspires you to finish what you start

13. Enthusiasm • Is a state of mind • is the most contagious of all emotions • Is a combination of mental and physical energy • Thrives best where sound physical health abounds • Sound health begins with the development and maintenance of health consciousness • To be enthusiastic – act enthusiastically!

14. Self- Discipline • Is to take possession of our own mind • The power or thought is the one thing we can control • By directing your dominant thoughts we ordain our destiny • Take charge of your life - you are what you think • Direct your thoughts – control your emotions - and ordain your destiny!

15. Accurate Thinking • Involves two fundamentals • Think clearly by separating the facts into two classes: The important and the unimportant • Accurate thinkers permit no one to do their thinking for them • Gather information and listen to the opinions of others, but reserve for yourself the privilege of making decisions • Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance or the refusal to believe

16. Focused Attention • Is the act of coordinating all the faculties of the mind and directing their combined power to a given end • Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will for whatever length of time you choose • You will have learned the secret to power and plenty- concentration • Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want!

17. Mastermind Alliance Principle • Consists of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective • Seek to work together in a state of coordinated harmony • No person can become a permanent success without taking others along with him

18. Teamwork • Is the willing cooperation and coordination of effort to achieve a common goal. • Is sharing part of what you have- the good part with others • Differs from the Mastermind because it is based on coordination of effort without embracing the principle of definiteness of purpose or the principle of harmony • Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset which you can acquire in proportion to your giving

19. Difficulties and Challenges • Every adversity you meet carries with it a seed of equivalent or greater benefit • Close the door of your mind to all previous failures and circumstances • Operate in a positive mental attitude • Every problem has a solution – you have to find it • Problems are only temporary set backs and stepping stones to success

20. Creative Vision • Is a quality of mind belonging only to people who follow the habit of going the extra mile • Is closely related to the state of mind known as faith and is significant- those who have demonstrated the greatest amount of creative vision are people with a capacity for faith • The imagination is the workshop of the soul wherein are shaped all plans for individual achievement

21. Auto Suggestion • Go To a quiet place- Repeat aloud written statement • Repeat this program morning and night until you meet your goal • Place a written copy in plain sight until memorized

22. Sound Health • Sound physical health is dependant upon a positive mental attitude • Establish a sound well balanced health habits in work, play, rest, nourishment and study • What your mind focuses upon – your mind brings into existence

23. Budgeting time and Money • Successful people budget their time, income and expenditures, living within their means • Failures squander time and income with contemptuous disregard for their value • Tell me how you use your spare time and money and I will tell you where and what you will be doing ten years from now

24. Force of Habit • You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits and thoughts and actions • You have the power to break bad habits and to create good ones in their place – at will • We have the power of choice through which we may establish our own thoughts and behavior patterns

25. Undo Destructive Thinking • What the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve- Overcome worry and Fear • Above all: • Attain happiness • Find peace of mind and • Take care of your basic material needs • Protect yourself against negative influences • You have absolute control over the thoughts you dwell on • Old age • Loss of love • Death

26. 6 Basic Fears Fear of • Poverty- most paralyzing fear • Criticism • Ill health • Old age • Loss of love • Death

27. Combating Fear • You Make your own breaks find other ways to use your talents • Most important is definite of purpose • Be persistent and courageous

28. Leadership • Unwavering courage • Self control • Keen sense of justice • Definite of decision and plans • Habit of doing more than you are paid

29. Leadership(cont’d) • Pleasing personality • Sympathy and understanding • Mastery of detail • Taking responsibility • Cooperation

30. Causes of Failure • Inability to organize details • Unwillingness to render humble service • Expectations of being paid for what you know • Fear of Competition from followers • Lack of imagination

31. Causes of Failure(cont’d) • Selfishness • Intemperance • Disloyalty • Emphasis of authority of position and title

32. Major Causes of Failure

33. Persistence & Determination • Starting point for all achievement is desire • Essential factor, sheer will power and desire • Weak desire bring weak results • Need persistence work: • With master mind group • On auto suggestion • Power

34. Persistence & Determination(cont’d) • Definiteness of purpose and plans • Desire • Self-reliance • Accurate knowledge • Cooperation • Will power • Habit

35. Persistence Inventory • Defined exactly what you want • Procrastination along with excuses • Indecision - not facing issues head on • Fear of criticism • Lack • Interest in acquiring specialized knowledge • Organized written plans that can be analyzed

36. Persistence Inventory(cont’d) • Paralyzed by fear of criticism resulting in failure to • Create plans • Put them into action • Because of what others think do or say • Habit of: • Making excuses instead of creating definite plans • Neglecting to move on ideas • Wishing instead of wiling • Searching for shortcuts to success

37. Sample Self Analysis

38. Analyze Yourself

39. Take Action Detailed plan

40. Action Plan • Definite Purpose- write down what you want • What will you give in return for what you want • Set a date when you intend to accomplish • Create a definite plan for carrying out your goal and place action into action at once • Write out a clear concise statement of the • amount money you intend to acquire, • name the time limit for its acquisition • What you will give in return • Describe a clear plan how you intend to do it

41. Action Plan(cont’d) Write out a clear concise statement of the • Amount money you intend to acquire, • Name the time limit for its acquisition • What you will give in return • Describe a clear plan how you intend to do it

42. Worksheet

43. Jobs

44. Plan Activity Right Now 11/10/2009

45. Plan Debt Plan

46. Vision andMission Statement • What do you see for yourself? • ? • ?

47. Plan B

48. Plan Debt Plan

49. Gap Analysis and Action Plan

50. References • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill • 7 habits of highly effective people Stephen Covey