Every day brings you the opportunity to live outside yourself, to think great thoughts and to envision great deeds. There is still time to be all that you endeavor, to receive all the money, popularity and fame you desire.

If you are ready to claim your happiness and success, you must first believe yourself capable of achieving them.

The one secret passed to thousands and thousands of men and women throughout history begins with this one simple concept:

“Know what you want”

“A feeling of inferiority is nothing but a state of mind.”

    ~Norman Vincent Peale

Today’s success thoughts are taken from”Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life” by Norman Vincent Peale.

Act as if you were someone worthy of admiration and respect- and gradually that is what you will come to be. What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

Here are some specific things to do if you need to bolster a shaky ego:

• Hold in your mind the image of the kind of person you want to be; confident, assured, competent, calm
• Break through the “fear barrier” by deliberately  doing something that has caused apprehension in the past
• Do the thing you normally flinch away from doing
• Open up your mind and let clean winds of faith flow through
• Identify the root cause of your feelings and get it out in the open
• Use inferior feelings to catapult you forward; transform them into yearning and effort to dissolve weakness and doubt
• Use the power of imaging to see yourself through your minds eye

• The only thing you have no choice about is making choices
• Wherever the mind goes, the energy flows
• As long as we feel victimized, we give up our power to change
• Life is a mirror; it reflects back whatever image we present to it
• Forget your past track record. Each moment is a new beginning

From “Think On” by Dr. Robert Anthony

• Ty Cobb was the first professional sports athlete to earn a million dollars
• Lucille Ball’s Desilu Studios helped Gene Roddenberry produce the pilot for Star Trek
• A high school teacher once told Elvis Presley he had no talent as a singer
• Presley’s signature wiggles originated from nervousness at his first public appearance when he learned the audience loved it
• The legendary James Dean was set to become the first actor to earn a million dollars

Just a few fun facts from “Money Secrets Of The Rich And Famous” by Michael Reynard