The Psychology of Achievement - Brian Tracy, Samodoskonalenie
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//-->Brian TracyThe Psychology ofAchievementContents1. How You Can Benefit Most from This Program2. Building a Positive Self Concept3. Accepting Responsibility and Taking Charge4. Programming for Success5. Goals and Goal Achieving6. Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making7. Superior Human RelationsHow You Can Benefit Most from ThisProgramThe final value to you ofThe Psychology of Achievementwill depend on how many of its insights andguidelines you can, or choose to, adopt as routine ways of thinking and acting. You'll be wise to listen toeach audio session several times. Don't expect to get full value from these cassettes if you hear them onlyonce. Even the most intelligent, thoughtful listener needs to hear cassette sessions such as these severaltimes to be able to pick up, think over and internalize all the ideas discussed. Also, each repeated listeningwill spark for you additional ideas that apply to your current needs and goals.Make Concentrated Listening a HabitSet aside a short period each morning or evening, or both, when you can listen with full attention to thesessions with which you are working. This does not in anywaypreclude casual listening - while you're drivingyour car, dressing, eating or exercising, for example. It is simply a more concentrated form of listening.Use This GuideAfter hearing a particular session on cassette, refer to the corresponding section of this guide. Here you'll finda useful summary of the main points discussed and suggestions for putting the ideas to work in your life.Act on Your IdeasUntil intelligent thought is linked with appropriate action and follow-through, little or nothing isaccomplished. So once you've grasped a particular idea and how to apply it,act -put it to work in your daily life.The results may seem slow at first, but if you're determined to stick with the program, you'll soon discover thatyou're creating a more successful life. You'll discover that you're able to accomplish your goals - bigger goals -on schedule. You'll make greater use of your creative abilities. You'll develop and maintain winningrelationships. You'llenjoyyour life more.Jot Down Your IdeasWhenever you're listening, keep pen and paper at hand, and be prepared to stop your cassette player at anytime. When you hear an idea or technique that particularly appeals to you, stop the tape. Think about the idea.Think about it in connection with your situation, your work, your life-style. Think about its value to you - howit could change and improve what you are doing. Think about how you can apply it, visualize yourself doingso and making it pay off for you. Jot down some notes to remind yourself of your thinking and to help you takeaction during the days ahead. Then restart the cassette player and continue listening.Cassette OneBuilding a Positive Self-ConceptSide OneSELF-ASSESSMENT1. Do I have peace of mind?2. Do I spend my time and energy worrying about money?3. Am I in control of my life?4. Do I have abundant energy and good health?5. Do I plan my life?6. Do I understand how to achieve my full potential?SUMMARYWhy are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, have morefriends, enjoy better health and derive greater satisfaction from life than others do? The purpose ofThePsychology of Achievementis to help you unlock your personal potential to achieve anything you reallywant in life.Let's define what we mean by success. There are basically six requirements for success. The firstrequirement is peace of mind - freedom from fear, freedom from anger and freedom from guilt. Thesecond requirement for success is good health and a high level of energy - if we do not have our health orenergy, we don't get very much satisfaction from life. The third requirement for success is lovingrelationships - long-term, intimate, mature relationships with other people. The fourth requirement isfinancial freedom - we cannot enjoy life if we're worried over not having enough money. The fifthingredient is commitment to worthy goals and ideals - man's need for meaning and purpose is the greatestsingle drive in human nature. The sixth requisite for success is a feeling of personal fulfillment or selfactualization - a feeling that we are becoming everything we are capable of becoming.The second principle is the lawof accident,which says there is no way that we can control what happens tous, that everything just happens by accident. Unfortunately, whether or not they realize it, the vastmajority of men and women live their lives by the law of accident. They have no goals beyond the shortterm, they make no plans, they don't really feel they're in control of their own destinies, and they just hopethat somehow things will work out.Opposed to the law of accident is the lawof cause and effect,which says that for every effect in our lives,there is a specific cause. We have the ability to control the causes and change the effects to anything wewant. Our thoughts are the primary causes of the conditions or effects in our lives, and if we wish our livesto be different in the future, we have to change our thinking in the present.Thelaw of beliefsays that whatever we believe with feeling becomes our reality. Our beliefs form a screenthrough which we see the entire world, and we never allow any information that is inconsistent with ourbeliefs to pass through the screen. Even if we have beliefs that are totally inconsistent with reality, becausewe believe them to be true, they become true for us.To get maximum performance from ourselves, we have to understand the basic underlying principles, orlaws, of our being. Once we understand how we work, we have to make an effort to apply what we havelearned to achieve far higher levels of accomplishment in our day-to-day lives.Let's begin by discussing the basic rules, or laws, for operating the human machine. The lawof controlsimplysays that we feel good about ourselves to the degree to which we feel we are in control of our lives,and that we feel out of harmony with ourselves to the degree to which we feel we are controlled bycircumstances or by other people. All control begins with taking control of the thoughts we hold in ourconscious minds.SELF-HELP1. Write your definition of success.2. List three goals to which you are committed.3. In which areas of your life have you achieved personal fulfillment?Side TwcSELF-ASSESSMENT1. Am I usually optimistic, and do I usually expect things to work out well?2. Do I understand the importance of my self-concept in determining my behavior?3. Who is the person I would most like to be-what is my self-ideal?4. Do I usually expect the best of other people? 5. Do I like myself?6. Do I understand the difference between self-liking and arrogance?SUMMARYThe lawofexpectations is a powerful concept that says that whatever we expect with confidence becomesour own self-fulfilling prophecy. People who enjoy high levels of accomplishment are continually talking toand about themselves as though they expect things to work out well. Expectations have a powerful impacton our relationships with others, and they have a powerful impact on what we become.There are three key types of expectations that affect our lives: first, the expectations our parents had of us -these expectations have a dramatic impact on how we perform today; second, the expectations we have ofour children, our spouses, our subordinates and the people who look up to us - people who look up to usalways try to fulfill our expectations of them, whether they are positive or negative; third, and perhapsmost-important of all, the expectations we have of ourselves - which may be high or low, positive ornegative.The lawofattraction says that each human being is a living magnet, that we radiate thought energy and thatwe invariably attract into our lives the people and circumstances that harmonize with our dominant thoughts.If we wish to attract different people, different circumstances and different events, we have to change thecontent of our conscious minds. We can dramatically improve the quality of our lives by taking control of ourminds and manufacturing beliefs and expectations consistent with what we want to happen in the future.Remember, what you think, you are.A positive mental attitude is an absolutely indispensable prerequisite for success. The only factors thatdetermine howwella person does or how far he goes are attitudinal. Attitudes come from our expectationsabout outcome. If we expect things to turn out well, we have positive attitudes. If we expect things to turn outpoorly, we have negative attitudes. Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectationswell in advance of the event. If we make a habit of always expecting the best out of everything we do, we haveone of the keys to a successful life.Where do our expectations come from? They come from our fundamental beliefs about ourselves and theworld around us. Our beliefs are based on our self-concept. Every one of us has a self-concept, which is thecontrolling factor in our performance. Our self-concept is a combination of all the ideas, thoughts andexperiences that have happened to us over the course of our lives that come together to form a compositeimage of the person we believe ourselves: to be. We always perform in a manner consistent with our self-concept.The self-concept is made up of three fundamental ingredients. Understanding of the self-concept is a key tounderstanding and unlocking human performance. The first element of the self-concept is what we call theself-ideal, or the ideal self. Every one of us has numerous pictures, feelings and thoughts of the ideal personwe would most like to be. It's usually a composite of all the people we have admired. We are continuallyadjusting our behaviors, actions and words to try to be more like that ideal person.The second part of the self-concept is the self-image. It is the way we see and think about ourselves; it's our"inner mirror." We tend to walk, talk, sit, act, think, and relate to other people in a manner consistent withthis self-image or inner mirror. If we wish to change our external performance, we have to change this innerpicture.The third element of the self-concept is self-esteem. It is the root of self-concept and the core of humanpersonality Self-esteem is the most important element in human performance. The person with healthy self-esteem likes himself. People who genuinely like and accept themselves as valuable human beings perform athigher levels of effectiveness. Say, "I like myself, I like myself," over and over, until it is driven deeply intoyour subconscious.People who genuinely like themselves and accept themselves as valuable persons like and accept other peopleto the same degree. It is impossible to like or love anybody else more than we like or love ourselves. At thesame time, it is impossible to expect anyone else to like and respect us more than we like and respectourselves. Saying "I like myself" is a positive affirmation that causes us to perform in a more effectivemanner. The root of all personality problems, all behavioral problems and all difficulties in interactions withother people is low self-esteem.
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