As A Man Thinketh
Assessment By Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil) 

Part 1 - Content Review: 

For me the first thing I thought important in the book happens when the author tell us that the man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. The author here use as an example the blossom of the plants and fruits to show us how we human being suffering to reach our total control of our thoughts. The man is made or unmade by himself, its means for me that we are the only creature able to control our life. We can build for our selves heavenly mansions of joy and peace, or we can create hundred infernal jailhouses full of panic, pain and worries.  

We can build armors to avoid bad thoughts or forge weapons to destroy our selves, “spirituals daggers”.

When man gets the knowledge of himself he conquers the knowledge about his fears and worries, so he can control them all, make them disappears from his life any time he wants. But for only by patience, practice and ceaseless importunity, can man enter the door of the temple of knowledge. 

When the author told us about the effect thought on circumstances, here he uses the cultivation of a garden to exemplify how man must take care of the control of his thoughts. How cultivate good thoughts and how to get rid of bad ones. Every man is where he is by the law of his being; all is the result of his own way to think. But man need believes him self, must take his time to practice self-control and self-purification, so then he will be come master of his own life and thoughts. When earnestly applies him self to remedy the defects in his character, and makes progress, he passes through a succession of vicissitudes. As the reaper of his won harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss. Man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power. As the lord and master of his thoughts, man can avoid all this inclination to evil, and be free of them any time he wants.  

Man does not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean; not what he wished and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony. The circumstances which a man encounters with blessedness are the result of his own mental harmony.  

I really agree with the author when he listed all the important things that happen when we got all the control of our thoughts:  

• You will be what you will to be;
• Let failure find its false content
• The human Will, that forces unseen,
• The offspring of deathless Soul…can hew a way to any goal.
• When spirit rises and commands …the gods are ready to obey.

It's really make me figure out how important is my toughs and good vibrations to carrion with my life and hope in this poor world. 

When the author said that there can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, I could see that he means about our animal side, and our proud to be rational but we're not perfect and we just can reach our success and control with hardly sacrifices and our mistakes in our lives.

And at least the author shows me the real importance when he said that the dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible one, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. And the humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, actor, prophet, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring humanity would perish.

Like Columbus who cherished a vision of another world and he discovered it, Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and wider universe, and revealed it, and at least Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Serenity and calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.      

Part 2 - Personal Impact: 

This book touched me real deepest this time. I figured out how important not only for me but for all human being, the control of our thoughts.  

We have to take care so much of our thoughts like when we care about our precious garden we have to do the same with our way to think. Every time we have to be our master of our thoughts take the control of all situation, but reach this stage on our lives isn't easy, we have to fight against all the fears and worries and negatives things that life bring to us all the time. We have to practice more and more day by day, the exercise of keep the control of our thoughts. Only by hard and true work we will reach this stage in our lives.

I'm always try fight against my own demons and worries and everything that makes me in panic.

With this book I learned how to control my emotions so much better nowadays. I used to have so many problems with relationship with friends, family etc. This book helped me to understand them much more and figured out how to have a good relation with them. This book helped me understand them and be prepared for all attack made by them, if I were prepared for it I'd could take all the control of any kind of unexpected situation. Like one day during my volleyball match, I was ready to attack another mate when suddenly I realized that I'll commit a terrible mistake. Then in a blink of an eye I turn around the whole situation just because I was able to understand the guy who I was ready to fight. With this book I felt so much more selfconfidence to face the most problematic family member of mine, my brother. And I did, with smart and psychology attention. Just ignoring his attack and offences I won this battle.  

And I really believe that this book and so much more others will help me in the future so much more than now.

As the lord and master of our thoughts, we can avoid all this inclination to evil, and be free of them any time we want.  

So in the end we have to control our own thoughts and be the master of our destiny and fate. But we will reach it only by hard work and belief in ourselves. 

Part 3 - Summary: 

We have to have our own control of our thoughts, because we are really searching for our internal evolution in the end of our existence.  

This book touched me real deepest this time. I figured out how important not only for me but for all human being, the control of our thoughts.  

We have to take care so much of our thoughts like when we care about our garden we have to do the same with our way to think. Every time we have to be our master of our thoughts take the control of all situation, but reach this stage on our lives isn't easy, we have to fight against all the fears and worries and negatives things that life bring to us all the time. We have to practice more and more day by day, the exercise of stay and keep the control of our thoughts. Only by hard and true work we will reach this stage in our lives.

When spirit rises and commands …the gods are ready to obey. 

It's really got me, the idea of be my own God and let the deities in peace, yes we are human, rational and we have the power of our own decisions so why I have to put my life in the hands of Popes, priest, preachers whatever, or other types of fanatics brainwashers, no, I just want to live my own life and commit my own sins and just blame myself about it.  

And the author shows me the real importance when he said that the dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible one, so men, through all their trials and sins and. And the humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, actor, prophet, these are the makers of our world made by dreams that was created by all them, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring humanity would perish and the world will be so boring.  

When man gets the knowledge of himself he conquers the knowledge about his fears and worries, so he can control them all, make them disappears from his life any time he wants. But for only by patience, practice and ceaseless importunity, can man enter the door of the temple of his own wisdom. 

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; all is the result of his own way to think. But man need believes him self, must take his time to practice self-control and self-purification, so then he will be come master of his own life and thoughts. When earnestly applies ourselves to remedy the defects in our character, and makes progress, we pass through a succession of vicissitudes. As the reaper of our own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss. Man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.

As an ordinary human I'm looking for this control and try to figure out every single day about how to control and be the master of my own thoughts and life and have the power to do it it's not simple and you can't find it any time you want. Like the author said you have to practice and use any weapons you can to became the master of your life.  

For me the most tuff thing that you have to face when you start this journey is, fight against your fears, fight against the negatives persons and forces, and in the end fight against everything that you learned during all your life, about sins, fears, worries, faith and so on. In the end you have to be against the society make your own path and choices, became a lonely soldier and face this inner war by your self. But in the end the prize for it it's the most valuable for all our eternity. Have the power to control our fears and worries, be your own master of your decisions and never fear your acts it's the most wonderful treasure the God gave us…Free will. 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil)

Part 1 - Content Review

For me the first thing I thought important in the book happens when the author tell us about the Jonathan Fly's practice. He's not an ordinary seagull, but in fact he's the only one of his flock whom wants to be different from the others. His interesting about know exactly how to fly, makes him different from the others seagulls.

Since the beginning the author show us how import is learn to fly to Jonathan. He's training a lot so little by little he always becomes better and better, day by day. But he didn't have the ideal technique to fly, so with Sullivan's help he started practice in the right way.

When he became outcast, from his flock he had to believe in him self…even without some hope of tomorrow or be far from his parents, he had to search for some good thoughts inside him. Then he was trespassed the pain that he had in that moment and he started practicing with more focus with Sullivan. More and more, he could figured out how fly works and how reach the speed that he really wanted in his life. He learned by his own wrongs experiences the control to flying, to land and about all the acrobatics' techniques that he always looking for!

When Jonathan, reach this objective he had to face another challenger. When the Elder Gull Chiang taught him about Heaven and the place the he was living in that moment it wasn't heaven, and he started show to Jonathan that if he wish be in Heaven first he really must believe in good thoughts, and nothing could stop him to reach his objectives, in Heaven nothing was impossible, but for that, he must believe that everything could be possible to him.

It was so fun when he faced the Elder Gull playing tricks with him, appearing and disappearing like a flash he could moving so fast more than the Jonathan eyes could see. The Elder taught him the he could be in any place the he wish in any moment, period or time, in a blink of an eye. And he started practice again until he finally got it and he did so well.

In Heaven he had to face another challenger, teach everything he were learned in his life so he received another's outcast Gulls like him self was one day. From this flock the chosen one for his attention was Fletcher Lynd.

When Fletcher with all his difficulty to understand what Jonathan was trying to teaching him Jonathan figured out the best way to him have more trust in him self was the same way that Jonathan discovered his own. By him self having in the pocket only some clues, but in the end he will have put some of this clues together to understand by him self.

So in the end the author show that all the times spent by Jonathan works so well because his legacy carries on no matter the time and the disagreement of the others flocks. His idea will prevail forever.

For me the most important think I mean the top of the book were when Jonathan founds in him self that he could be a teacher too and teach for others gulls all that he was learned before the reach Heaven. It was nice the author show us about our own fears through Fletcher the Jonathan's pupil. In this topic the author show us our biggest weakness: fear. The fear of the unknown, of new experiences and the fear to face something new and make our life change so dramatically.

And when we face these challengers in our life's so many things happen with us, we become more strong and courageous. The author show us that everything is possible for us, but we have to believe in our selves, we can do, we can stand, and everything is possible for us, we must believe that we can do whatever we wish. The rule is having faith in you first and let the others think about us whatever they want. Always will have peoples who will make us more happy giving to us support and good thoughts and will have peoples so negative trying all the time pushing us to down and tying our wings to prevent us to fly to our own Heaven. And we have to face it with so many self confidence and faith in ourselves.

Part 2 - Personal Impact

This book touched me so deep. Just because I'm felling exactly Jonathan, in many ways and times of my life.

I'm always try to be different from the others, but not to call attention, but I just want to know more, have more experiences, know about more thing and places than be just one more ordinary guy. I wish so much flying more and more higher and face and defeat all the fears that's always creep me. Like Jonathan I love learn, know more about the mysteries of life, I don't want just live this life I want more, I want know the meaning of, with that I believe I could be grow and grow every day. If you face your fears, you can defeat anything negative in your life; you can become strong and make your mind act for you without any pain or panic. For me everyone could be have the right to speak to think and to act, but each act depends of your thoughts if you have good one, you have happiness and good things happening in your life, everything will be works in it, and you will be in good world your own. But if you have negatives ones it will become an evil chains and you will be trapped on it.

The book taught me how to believe more in me than in the others, it's show that everything you learn here in this life, in this flock will be so useful in the future time, when your new journey start again but in another Land. And it isn't worth keep your knowledge's for your self you have to share with others and let them here for others could follow your ideas, especially good ones.

The books show me the I have to make my own path by my self believe more and more in me and listen the good advises from the ones who really loves me and want to see me happy and well.

I want be free from these chains made by fear, doubts and panic of unknown. I want to learn so much as I could and in the future a soon one, I want teach everything that I learned.

I have like Jonathan to fight for my objectives. I have to be against my parents, friends and whatever, at a moment I just figured out that I was alone, just me, my self and I. And I have to search for strong for inner power to fight against everything were against me. It's not easy, but it's made me more strong nowadays, it's gave me self-confidence. I had a dream be happy by my self; I wish be an actor, an artist, a singer, an athlete, and I had to prove that I was able to do these and so much more. I have to make my parents, friends and others believe in me, and in my capacity. So in the end I was prevailed like Jonathan I was a victorious like him and defeat all my fear at these specific time. But now I have to face other challengers like him, I have to do it, because like him I'm searching for my eternal evolution.

Part 3 - Summary

This book showed me so many things about how to live. Could be strange if you think, what have in common your way to live and a gull which want learn how to fly with speed and wonderful technique. But, it's possible, the book showed me that everyone's have his own dream and in many time of our lives we have to face the difficulty and some others peoples which wants to keep our feet fixed in the ground, they don't want belong us to fly. The book showed me that has so many things in common between me and Jonathan. He had a dream as I am. He had so many things and so many peoples against him, but in the end he prevailed. He has his victory and he becomes more than another ordinary gull he becomes light. Pure and strong like a sun.

The New Dynamics Of Winning
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil)

1. What Ideas were personally most important for you in this book?

For me the first thing I thought important in the book were when the author talks about Greg LeMond, and all the challengers that this athlete had to face it before and after the Tour de France. Was real emotive the way that he shows for us how to become a real champion, the importance of face any kind of challengers but most important you must face and defeat all your fears, worries and doubts.

The author shows for us how hard Greg drove himself to win. In the first part of the book the author shows us and teaches us how to be a winner. What must we know to be a true champion, not only in competition but in all things in life. That's being a champion means thinking like a champion.

The author divided the books in eight distinct chapters. They are:

1. The most important traits of a champion;
2. The five most prevalent self-destructive beliefs;
3. How to focus your mind for peak performance, anywhere;
4. The important relationship between integrity and success;
5. The secrets of mental toughness, and how to overcome setbacks;
6. The components of effective leadership and the importance of coachability;
7. How “paying the price” prepares you for success;
8. How to use stress to your advantage.

In the first chapter he's using three important characters: Bill Toomey, Greg LeMond and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, both golden medal athletes' winners.

So that's the point that the book touched me really deep. Because I am an athlete too, I use to practice athletics games too. I used to practice 100m and high jump competition. But nowadays I practice volleyball not for competition, but once in a competition everything will make you think that you are in a one always.

While I was reading the book I figured out that many things on it were so useful in my life. So I started to take all the experiences that I learned with it to my real life the volleyball's Camp. Then while I trying to learn how to use them during my performances at the volleyball I was trying to take them to my practice too.

As the author tells us on his book, “Nobody else is going to take you fishing”, no one will have to face challengers that belongs to you own, no one can beat a volleyball match for me, except me. For all the things that I really want that happen in my life I'll have to face all the challengers, and competition of the daily life alone by my self.

2. Can you relate the ideas or concepts in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as your relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, etc?

Of course I can relate many things from this book wish my own life. Like the author, he used so many good examples wish athletes or famous well succeeded personalities, like Walt Disney, Ray Kroc or Dr. Deming etc. Anyhow both got all that they want in life, they reached their goals.

For me, this book helped me, is helping and always will help me to reach my ones, will help me to reach “THE ZONE”, but like for the best example to me in this book: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, she broke into smaller components her “big goals”; The Olympic Games! Like her I believe that this is the best way to build my own dream and make it became true. The Stair-Step Method. Imagine, I wasn't born a volleyball player; I wasn't born jumping in my cradle. I have to take lots of challengers to reach this skill that I dominate nowadays. It wasn't easy no way!

First, I had to learn how to walk, of course I don't remember this phase with so many details, but I remember that I used to hand in everything to try to keep my self stand up. And I remember that a little tricycle helped me a lot with that. Yes because this tricycle had three wheels and one of them gave me the good equilibrium and this made me gets self confidence to keep trying over and over again until gets walks.

Than I remember that after that I had to face another challenge, it was how to ride a bicycle. That was a real terrible challenger in my life that time, my I'll never forget the time that I tried to climb a large and real right ramp to reach a real right place for me that time. I'll never forget, I felt from a real right place, my legs didn't obey me so I couldn't get the highest place without fall. I hit my head so strongly against the ground and it was a ground made by old big rocks, like those that you can find in ancient Rome or Jerusalem. My I remember that I just saw many lights and I wasn't able to keep my self up, the pain, the fear, the shame took place in all my body and mind. The pain was terrible, my head turns around like a carrousel, the fear dominated me my hands was shaking a lot of course I hate this damn bicycle. And I felt such a terrible shame and self pity because all my friends oldest than me, and my sister could ride a bicycle so easy and they could fly against the wind, but not me! So at the first moment I just gave up the whole idea, I had to throw my towel and try to have fun with another thing. But I used to be a real blockhead and very persistent. Weeks later I try again and fell again and again…I remember that that time I had lots of scars on my small and thinner body, so fragile, but to each scares I won more and more determinate I became.

So one day, I think I was running from a quarrel one of thousand that I had to face in my life, but not at that moment. So I was runaway from this then suddenly I just figured out how to ride a bicycle…in fact, by urgency and I had a real motivation: avoid having my skin with much more scars that wasn't worth having for.

So after that, I got passion for sports, I always loved velocity, I always loved jump and climb higher places, everything for me it was a brand new challenge every single day.
So one day I was put in head that I would be a volleyball player. First I have to face lots of difficulties like: one, I never had the right size to be a perfect one, two, I didn't had the skills to play a good match, I didn't know how to spike strongly and in a right way the ball, I didn't know how to make a good dig, in fact my this one I just figured out few years ago after move to Brasília, and spend days and hours training lots and lots and lots. I didn't now how chuck the ball, like beaches volleyball players knows to do it so well. I didn't know how to block the adversaries, every time I tried to attack the ball I used to injured the opponents always, I was so awkward that every one used to hate play with me none wants in their teams, I'll never was invited for a game never, even I was me the one who got the volleyball camp for free or even if I was the owner of the ball anything of it was matter. None wants Silvio the disaster himself in the square.

So one day I found a guy he know how to play in a right way, besides he didn't had a good body for this, he was a little bit fat, and he had a short size too, besides all of that, this guy mesmerized me, because he got to play so good, everyone wished him in their teams sometimes they fighting for him, he had good skills, a good spike, and wonderful defense, his dig was to fast, he wasn't heater the ball but had a good attack.

So humbly I asked to him if he could teach me how to became a regular player or be as good as he was. And he agreed to do it. So for months I use to awake so early just to training and practice with him, all the skills, the most terrible challenge that time for me was don't cross the net and with that avoid hit and injure my opponents, the other hard thing I had to learn was how to make an attack jumping from the Attack Line, wow, I used to thing, “come on I'll never be able to do it, I'm not taller enough for this!”

Can you imagine one day, few year ago, I got this, and nowadays I'm able to do, of course It isn't my favorite spike but, I can do it sometimes specially when I'm feeling real strong and self confidence. Than besides that I had to learn how to serve and how to block besides my size. But I always had a good impulsion this always made me reach the ball real high. Side by side with that, one day I was invited to enjoy in a real team not volleyball as I really wish, but in an athletics games. I was playing volleyball with some friends and to test my impulsion I use to do slam dunks on a good size hoop that this square had. This day a coach from the team of my State was there and he saw me do it. So I just was there because I loved be with my friends the same that nowadays I play my volleyball matches with. So this guy was my friends coach and he invented me to make a test in his team. So I did the test, it was just jump and reach the most higher place that he choose, he picked up some others beside me, and I was the chosen one. After that I start to train hard for High Jump competitions at same time I was training for Sprint 100m and Long Jump competitions. That time two of my best friends were my rivals. But my best performances were during High Jump and Sprint's competitions.

Side by side I was becoming better and better on volleyball, got more and more skills day by day but little by little, why, well I had to jumping in the competitions all the time it's made my impulsion becomes better and better, I had to learn lots to get equilibrium when I landed on the ground during the long jumps competitions, and at least I was becoming so faster during my games and strong because all my trains to have good performances during Sprints competitions. So as anyone can see, like Jackie Joyner-Kersee, I broke into smaller components my “big goals” that time; become a good and regular volleyball player using “The Stair-Step Method” to reach “The Zone.”

3. What are the most important new ideas or concepts you learned from this book? Explain them:

We have to be persistent and do everything for ourselves, never wait for “Someone to take us to going to fishing.”

We have to discover how to get peak performances during our lives, we have to discover inner skills and apply them in our own working life. And we need to gain the ability to block out distractions and negative influences and at least we need to become able to make stress and pressure works for us instead against us in any situation.

We need to have the “burning desire”, this fire in the belly it's a internal force that drives us to peak performances, we need to be real champions in life, because only champions know where they are and they see where they want to go. They dominate and keep focus their thoughts and energy on the desired results of success.

I need to know and learn how to avoid the FOUR GREAT FEARS:

1. Fear of Catastrophic Danger: to avoid it I learned that the best way to overcome it is knowledge and action. I believe if I have good thoughts, self confidence and knowledge about my attitudes and where am I, I cold control this kind of fear easy.

2. The Fear of Change: My of course I have this one, and every time I need to take a decision a important one in my life, I need to think first, if with this change I'll be able to be happy, I won't hurt or prejudice anyone, and what will be my prize on it and what the price I'll have to pay for it, it will worth while?!? Ok, to face this situation the book show me that If I want to be a champion it's requires the ability to embrace changes, and it's of course represents a threat to the status quo. But I have to think like that, let it represents unlimited opportunity and I can lose them for the rest of my life.

3. The Fear of Success: Well I believe that most people than I can imagine has this one inside of them, it's incubated but it's there real deep inside of each one. For me this fear means get brand news responsibilities, be in charge of brand and unknowns things, and have to face news situations and besides that still keep my winner pose. Wow, it's for me sounds a little scared! But I never could feel myself guilty or something like that if I got what I wished it happened because I deserve for it. This is my moment my self-gratification. Sure I know that I'll have to face envy and criticism from friends, false or true and even from my own family I always knew that. So in this case I need to justify to myself that I really deserve all this. And this book helped me a lot to do that.

4. The Fear of Failure: And at least the most terrible fear that I had to face yesterday in my past, today, and of course I need to learn how to avoid feel it tomorrow.

This is the worst thing that I carry with me the fear to commit mistakes, the fear of became a ridiculous person or being embarrassed in front a mill or just one person, the fear of rejection, being reject by the society, friends, mates etc. I agree with the author; this fear came from the fear of what might happen, not what will happen, makes us hold in our thoughts many bad, stupid and coward ideas. This is a fear that I have to learn more and more day by day how to control and get rid off it.

Because I have to see this situation like that: If I was in a volleyball match and I was chosen as a leadership of my team and our adversaries were so much more taller and strongest than us, what I will do, turn to my mates and say: “Ok guys, we need to give up this match, they are so much better than us and there's no chances for us to beat them.” Or be brave and say to them: “Ok guys now it's the real time and the biggest opportunity for us to show to anybody that we can be the best in what we do. So let's give the best of us from now one and don't matter win or loose but we will keep our honor and pride and we will play like if this could be the last game of our life.”

I really believe that the second option will give to us a real better result than the first.
So to face this kind of fear, I'll have to learn to react exactly like that, always, be a brave and face the fight never a coward and being beaten before the war starts.

And what's make a winner? The book told me that we have to learn this:

o Common sense, or ability to simplify complex subjects by getting right to the core of what really matters.

o Knowing your field, both through hands-on experience and the advice of other people.

o Self-reliance, which means more than just feeling good about yourself. It means taking definitive actions to get things moving and happen in your own life.

And the book tells that the best way for the starters like me starts the method and skills is asks for myself some hard questions:

o Are you dissatisfied with the status quo?

o What do you have to change in order to move toward where you want to be?

o Which fears do you need to conquer? Do you fear change? Do you fear failure? Do you fear success?

The book shown me that the key for an authentic leadership is to listen to your followers, and then open the door for them to lead themselves. The secret is empowerment. The main incentive is genuine caring and recognition. Like we students saw in a Jonathan's the Seagull book! In the end of the book remember? He encouraged others seagulls like him to learn to fly but in the end they had to learn and train by them selves.

o The five most important words a leader can speak are: “I am proud of you.”

o The four most important are: “What is your opinion?”

o The three most important are: “If you please.”

o The two most important are: “Thank you.”

o And the most important single word of all is: “You”!

And you always need to ask for yourself, if you want to “Pay the Price”:
Commitments are so much more important than hard work; doesn't matter if you work a lot but in the end of the day you are not satisfied with your job, you just wait for having you pay check assigned just like that. But in the end you wish so much more, you wish do something that's really could make you fell happy with yourself. But you have to ask for your self do want to pay the price for the changes, to get a new chance you need make choices, are you prepare for that, to face a brand new challenge one after other?

If you are congratulation you started to take the real control of your own life.
So at least the book taught me so many good things, and sure I will use all them in my practice life. I want to be a champion from now one, I want to transform bad thoughts, bad energies and everything against me in opposite. And this book gave me good weapons to use in this private war. Now I know how to be a good and efficient leader.
I don't want to be a coward and have fear to learn or commit mistakes but I want to face all that challenges that's appears in my life from now one. And I don't want have self-destructives beliefs no more.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way? If so, explain how:

Of course this book ganged so deepest, why, because, only during the volleyball matches and while I was playing videogames and all those hard games to beat, only by that I had courage enough to never give up, an extra strong to face and defeat challenges, but after read this book, something changed real hard inside of me.

And I start to feel this feeling of having “my belly burning inside” again. Like the first time that I try to ride my bicycle and I had to figure out how to do it.

And after all this book challenged me, why, because I was so frustrated for don't had a chance to enjoy the Institute meeting in USA this month, because it will be my greatest chance to know USA and meet someone so special and valuable to me. Instead be in my home and crying and crying, I decided in a harder way to keep going with my studies and make one of my best papers that I ever did before. And try to believe in another chance and in another opportunity will happen if I believe on it with all my power. And I do.

5. Are there ideas in the book that you totally disagree with? If so, why?

No, not this time. This time I just agree with all that the author said. Just perfect!

6. What did you find most helpful and least helpful in this book?

As I told before, I agree with al the ideas of this book. The only thing that's I thought least helpful it's the repetition of some points like: Recognizing Your moment of Truth means to me the same of: When You've Paid the Price, You Expect the Gold.

Or, Strength through Mental Toughness means the same to me of: Self-confidence and Self-transformation - Becoming One with the Bull's-eye.

Besides that everything is very important to me to reach “The Zone” and my Goals in Life for sure.

7. In 50 words or less, please describe the main idea the whole book is trying to convey.

For me whole book is trying to convince us that the word impossible, or I can't, or I can't get it, just exist in our mind in the fear of face news and unknowns situations in our life. Everyone can be a champion, but before be in a competition and search for a golden medal, we need to defeat our worth enemy ourselves, our fears our bad thoughts and become our own coach to reach our success. I think, I act, I believe, I can and I want have victory walking hand in hand with me. This is the whole idea for me.

8. Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10.

A. How interesting was it to read? (9)
B. How helpful were the contents? (10)
C. How easy was it to understand? (10)
D. Would you recommend it to others? (9)
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? (9)

Comments: From the book I just want to say that helped a lot to feel better with myself, I found hope and a brand new vision on it. I believe that will help me a lot on my volleyball performance, not only there but in all my entire life for the rest of it. Now I know how to be a good athlete and at the same time how to be a leadership if I need. And helped me so much, avoid feel self-pity for didn't get be on the Institute meeting in the Sanctuary. I won't give up and I'll give other opportunities for this happen in my life.

About the ratings, it was totally personal, I believe that nothing can be perfect because we're not perfect and why a book or things should be?!? That's my opinion.

Giants Steps
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil)

1. Discuss the main ideas that you found most important in this book and discuss why they were important to you.

Dreams Of Destiny
In many religions, beliefs or in many books around our world, we could find some mention about “dreams”, it really important for us human beings have and use the power to dream. Imagine…we won't be happy if we couldn't dream. Our goals in life all from our projects came from our dreams. Walt Disney, J.R.R. Tolkien, wise men that believed so much in their dreams. Disney created the most amazing place for kids and adults have good and plentiful funny time there. Tolkien make every single day even after his death, people believe and learn about a language that never exist. Why just because both shared their dreams with us but most important, they prove and make us to believe in them.

But let's think dreams are invisible untouchable but the Giant Steps books show me that, when we turn these dreams into manifestation of our wishes it becomes reality and changes so deepest our destiny. Dreams make us survive in this sadness world, no matter poor or rich your must have dreams, if you don't have them, you can consider a half dead person. Like the author said the only way to achieve your dreams is to extent your ability to define with precision exactly what do you desire what you really searching for.
But goals and wishes could help us to achieve our dreams too.

“The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion”.
In resume to reach your goals and desires its concentrate which goals it's real important to you than you must put your passion and use your creativity to reach them. How?!?

For example turn your big goals in pieces little ones, than little by little and day by day try to reach one by one of course it will be a challenger but life is that. You must face every day something that can make you tremble and in the same time after you conquest this fear you will reach the victory of see your dreams become true in front of you.

So to reach this I learn from this book do this:
1 - Deicide what I want;
2 - Take action;
3 - Notice what's working or not;
4 - Change your approach until I achieve what I want.
In resume: I have to be real precise about what I really want; have to do something to make my own dreams and goals come true; separate what's works to me and what's not to achieve those dreams and goals and change if I need the way that use or act to reach this dreams and goals.

The Power To Create - The Power To Destroy
In resume I understood this: Our mind has tremendous power to create and transform or even change anything that you can imagine. Every time our scientists are discovering something new about our mind. Take my self as an a good and fascinating example, one day I woke up and I believed that I had a serious disease, HIV, I was positive and in the same time I had real urgent problems with my kidneys. I was so sure about all of this I believed so much in everything that I started to feel all the symptoms of all that diseases. The pain was so terrific that I had to go to a hospital than I spent 1 week there. All the doctors was so confused and scarred too, because I had all the symptoms of both diseases but theirs machines all the mechanicals exams couldn't get find nothing on my system. But the blood exam the some others handmade ones found all the symptoms from those diseases. After one week and a half on the hospital I decide that I was cured and I wish do deepest been out of there. Than after reach my home again and after almost one moth my wish to be sick vanished and than I was cure from all those diseases.

Magic, no just the power to “Destroy' your self, so I figured out if I have the power to destroy and make damages with my self what could be happen if I use all this power against some one?!? At the same time I prove to my self the power to create something that never exists inside of me. If I did that, maybe I can have the power to move a mountain or even to fly?!? Crazy, no this power has so many names in Occidental culture like: Faith or wish. But in the Oriental World they call that the power of the man that can be your own God. The power that you have inside yourself and this can make your be more than a ordinary human. It's could be real dangerous in wrong hands or with person with wrong minds and for sure wrong and bad thoughts. And the author gave in his book a good example when he mentions that “Beliefs separate a Mozart from a Manson, causing some individuals to become heroes while others resign themselves to wondering what could have been.” Remember Mozart use his power: Music to reach everyone around him but in the end the reached the all the world because it was a good idea that was share with every one. While Manson a sociopath that wishes spread his ideas of revolution by violence in USA during 70 years and even nowadays he is a very dangerous person to be in our society, because he has the same power of Hitler to convince mass to self destruction and war and other bad ideas.

So we have to take real care about beliefs because they have power to create and the power to destroy everything at the same time.

Questions Are The Answer
For us humans it so important like a child make questions about every thing. Come on don't be lazy don't be stupid and accept whatever people tells to you. Make question be curious. The curiosity has its own reason for existing. What in fact is real true about our origin? Who is wrong and who is right?!? We were monkeys or just part from a unknown God. And who is God, why people insist to give the power of the divinities just for one person our “agent of the faith”, committing crimes and horror in the name of this God…that just save you that have the power to control masses, your who control lives and destiny in your throne of hypocrisy, you who tell to the people to don't do this or that but you are the only one who do exactly those things. So come on, think about everything I said and make questions. If you do that you will keep from you safe from this “blood suckers”, politicians, religious leaders, fanatics and dangerous person and you will safe your own life. So be pure being kid again with no shame and do question as much as you could. Because “All human progress is preceded by new questions.”

The Vocabulary Of Success
I just can call this power as a power to use in a right way your words your speech the way you talk and you can convince anyone or many people with your ideas. Like politicians or religious leaderships.

Remember Hitler was a great leader because he figured out that people wishes to him. But let's see the good side of this power. Have you ever pain attention sometimes how that Healers and or reverends gets his followers?!? Using emotion in his way to talk to speak you can feel all the emotion in his or her intonation this kind of person could make you crying or even laugh without any reason just because they make you do it. I've been keep my eyes in this kind of person, because they could be dangerous too for our life. This is a power that could make people controls another just with their voices.

But you can keep in safe your self control just learn how to do it. How?!? Learning every day most and most make your vocabulary not bigger but huge and those kind of people. But at first place you must believe and each word that escape from you mouth your must have faith in what are you talking about. When you do it you reach the emotional states so your voice changes suddenly and all your desires and deserve appears in your words when you speak. At this moment people will be able to feel the same emotional and they will put them selves in your place and they will live the same experiences that you are describing for them. It will be like magic the magic of the words.

If I can do this? Yes I can! As and actor I had to learn this power to convince people that I'm a character different than my self that are playing in front them. It is easy, no way! You have to have the control of your emotions and know precisely how to convince the masses that you are what you must believe that you are. So you have to involved the viewers with your character and make them have the same emotions and experiences that you are having. In a blink of an eye you can lose this control and you do it say good bye for your interpretation and for you director too. The secret is besides concentration you must believe in every single word that comes out from your mouth. Than with the power of your voice you must take the viewers to the same trip that you character is having. It's like ride a horse you must have the control and the command or you will fall.

And I agree with the author said, that “The words we attach to our experience become our experience.”

The Keys To An Expanded Life
I really believe that to find this we need two specifics things: Experiences in life and will power. You always must have proud of your experiences in life good or not why? Just by them you can reach the success in your life, when you have bad experiences you can be able to learn so much than if you had just good experiences. Because bad is more remarkable than good ones. Like every thing your see, you hear, your touch, taste or smells and it keeps in the deepest of your mind forever, bad and good experiences bring to you same sensations. I always learn so much more with my bad experiences, but the most important for every one is, never ignore your bad experience but please to live them every single day. Because do it it's just like you live every day the past and isn't good for any one. You must learn with the past but never live it! If you do that or live the Future and both is a bad idea to do it. If you do that you will let all the good things that “is” happening right now in your life wake way from you every day they became far from you and then you can lose the chance that big one that you always looking for in your entire life. So pay attention about it. Never live the past just learn with it. So be proud of all your experiences that it will be make you grow everyday and being a better person for you day by day.

About will power, it's real necessary to make your dreams come true, without faith in yourself and what you wish you won't have anything. You must believe first in your self that you can be able to believe and others persons or things no matter but first “Believe in you.” So keep your mind safe from negatives thoughts and persons like the author said: “Read books, watch movies and DVD's attend plays, go to seminars talk with strangers.” And I believe that in one of those moments you will have a different and unknown experience that will change your life once again. Your entire life. And I agree with the author when he said:” Every experience provides something of value.”

2. Can you relate the ideas or concepts in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as your relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, etc?

Of course I can relate some things from this book with my own life. Especially, when the author talks about experiences, and the power of the vocabulary. As an actor I had to learn how important it is to me, get the control of the viewers by the use of my own voice in thoughts. I had to make them believe that I was that character that I was showing to them. At the same time I agree so much with the author he was so delicate when he mentioned Mozart and Mason. The variations of the ideas of use the power to reach the masses. So I agree with him how similar but different at the same time could be these ideas. One is total dangerous and other so benefic for us.

And the whole idea of this book helped to keep my dreams and goals and carry on with my life believing that everything could be possible to me, but first I need to believe in my self just it.

3. What are the most important new ideas or concepts you learned from this book? Explain them:

We have to be persistent and have to have will power to reach and get every one of our dreams and goals. We need to pay attention for our mistakes in the past but never live them every day. We never give it up of our goals and wishes and we need to picture in our mind how important these dreams and goals are for us every single day. We have to be care about people who wants to control our lives and we need to take this control by our selves. We need to act like kids to avoid this kind of people, asking every time about every thing be curious means be smart and wise.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way? If so, explain how.

Well this book made me remind how important is to me to keep my goals, desires and wishes in my life, no mater the mistakes I did in the past, no mater the fears I have about my future I have to have faith I have to keep good thoughts and have will power to carry on with my life. Yes this book challenged because it made me think so deepest than I ever had before. About me, my life my goals, and sure it's changed me deepest. Now I don't have any doubt to carry on, to believe more and my self that in other who wish control my life. I have the power to control my self so I will use it in my benefit.
Of course I have during my life bad experiences and good too, but from the bad ones I will learn how to avoid them again, and from the good ones I will keep in my mind and I will use them as an example too to get what I wish to my future life.

5. Are there ideas in the book that you totally disagree with? If so, why?

Just the idea better the suggestion that the author do in the beginning of the book to look for someone that you don't see a long time and try to talk with him or her and maybe apologize for something etc. Well I can do this with the person that real hurt me especially because this person will not bring anything useful to my life anything good I could expect from them and this person will make me retrograde. So this person won't worth give any attention not from me.

6. What did you find most helpful and least helpful in this book?

I believe the tips that the author give to us how to keep your life in control, how to pay attention more in yourself than in the other. How important is the power of the words, the thoughts and to have dreams for human beings. Its real help me so much to believe more and more in me.
The least helpful, well sometimes I thought that the author exaggerated a little bit with the numbers of questions, there are lots of them more than answers and sometimes it makes us confuses. It is just my opinion.

7. In 50 words or less, please describe the main idea the whole book is trying to convey.

For me whole book is trying to convince we need to believe in our dreams, most of the ordinary people always call you “crazy” if you wish to dream what they judge too much to reach. Giant Steps means that, every dream and goals are possible if you have faith in yourself if you have will power and if you were wise enough to understand that you can be the master of your decisions and you can be able to control your thoughts and desires. But first of all you must believe in yourself.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 8
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 8
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 8

Comments - Feel free to share any additional comments about the book or the ratings:

From the book I just want to say that it's helped me to believe a little bit in my self in my dreams and goals that I want to reach. To believe that in this huge world there's a place to me too, like the sky full of star I can have my own time to shine too. But first I have to learn more about me, loved me and believer more and more in my self and raise the God that is sleeping inside of me. And I'll do it just collecting my experiences in my life, thorns a flowers I will have but in the end everything will be worth to fighting for, I just have to believe with my heart on it. And I will.

Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim, Brazil

1. What Ideas were personally most important to you in this book? Do not simply list the ideas, but explain or discuss why they were important to you, using personal examples.

This book called my attention exactly on the first part that I read and in first chapter of this one: Where's the Road to Achievement Begins “We are poor ------ not because God…

Meet the Most important Living Person
Who is he or she or them? It's not president or pope or even a rich or poor man or woman. It is you. The author is showing that you are the one, you are the most important living person in your life, and of course without you how could you live a life? For me the author shows how important we are for ourselves. We need to know us so much better really deep inside; we need to be the master of our decisions, wishes and thoughts. To reach our goals and happiness. We need to learn how to use the side PMA of the magical talisman.

I have been in some wonderful experiences nowadays in my life, I have been learning from those experiences how precious for me is to know my self and learn who am I in fact. Little by little I am getting better and I am learning who is: Silvio. I meet my own essence. My fear and my powers, my deepest wishes and the way to reach all them. The secret of this success simple: Serenity and the power that I got to control my thoughts and my own life. I use to have so many problems of being anxious, fears, and worries about my future, my decisions etc. I use to be sick many and many times for that. Stomach problems, low pressure even kidneys problems I had to face it. But nowadays I'm so glad with my will power and the power to read good stuffs like this book so day by day I am becoming a better person for my self no more a stranger because I met the most important living person in my life…Me.

We need to Search for the Light
Sometimes darkness can come to us and make us so blind, when it's happen we lose our hopes, everything looks without no solution, every little problem become a dangerous storm, we think that there's no way out for this hell. So when it's happen it makes us use the NMA side of our magical talisman. And it does so easy avoid this kind of situation. Why don't you keep the control of thoughts and start to search for a light in the middle of the darkness. Of course you can do this. The only thing you have to have is faith, in God, in Bible like S.B. Fuller or just in a person which is the most important living person in your life, yourself.

For many time in my life I left the bad side of my magic talisman the NMA takes place in my thoughts and decisions. Every time I did that was so bad for my self and for the ones who loves me. For many times in the past I thought I was fighting against the worst demons in my life, the ghosts of my past, and I just thought for long time in my life that everyone just hated me so much it was me against all the world. When I finally found my self reading good books and of course always trying to change bad things in good things and learning with my own experiences specially avoiding to thing on my past and just waiting for my future keeping my eyes on the things of my present. So I searched and found the light in the end of the big hole that my life used to be. My salvation: the books and my change of think and observe my own life.

Every Adversity has the Seed of an Equivalent Greater Benefit
The author used a wonderful example; Tom the boy with the artificial foot. That boy had everything to avoid him to reach his dreams and goals of being a football player. Instead he use the NMA against him self he fought against his problem and became a true winner when he gave the victory to his team against the Detroit Lions. Doing that he enjoyed the PMA side of our talisman. And he realized his dream of being a famous football player.

Well at this point I believe that my greatest challenge will come soon yet. So for that I just need to be prepared like a soldier I need to have a good warfare in my hands. So the best gun that I have is my knowledge of how to get rid of all my fears and worries, my culture and my wisdom. These are my precious treasures and my secret to achieve the good side of my talisman: PMA in the right time that I will need it. And my greatest challenge nowadays is be prepared to the TOEFL the harder test that I will have to face in my life until now.

* You Can Change Your World: Like the author said to us: Dare it! Face the challenges of this world and fight against the NMA. How could we do it? Easy! Enthusiasm, personal initiative, creative vision, using cosmic habit force, maintaining sound physical and mental health, self-discipline, be the master of your own mind, definiteness of purpose and of course a Positive Mental Attitude. You were born a champion. But to reach the victory you need to be in battle and it means go out and be a warrior in battle of your life. Remember: Only the Strong will survive! So like the book I Dare You from William Danforth asked for us, I will have the courage to make this world so much better to live in.

Ok it must be something so rebel to say especially for a moralist society don't you? But I really believe you can change your own world of course you cannot all the world but you can change and make yours so much better. First to do it you need will power, self confidence and be the master of your wills, mind and goals. It is demands such self-discipline, initiative, and enthusiasm.

For example every time I have to make a test as an actor, singer or for a regular job, I have to prove for the person who will contract me that I am the guy that he or she is looking for. How? I have to prove that I am equal other people but “I have an ace on my sleeve.” If I'm trying to enjoy in a band I have to prove that I can sing all the songs very easy, I can memorize fast the lyrics and I can sing very powerful all the songs, I have a good performance on the stage and I can control any crowd. If the test that I have to make it's for a Drama Company, I have to prove that I can be flexible, I can do any kind of character, with many types of voice, I can memorize the script very fast and be on stage all the time with passion and always ready to help my mates with anything in scene. If I'm looking for a regular job I have to prove that I can be a good employee, that I am really responsible and I can deal with any situation next to me during my work hour.

For all of that I will need to be a warrior, I'll have to take with me the right armaments to do it. My self confidence, my capacity to be creative and to deal with any problem, my enthusiasm for doing anything and the most important thing, the power to reach my Positive Mental Attitude. With all that I always got what I looking for, of course sometimes besides all of that things cannot works sometimes. When it's happen just look inside you give a big smile and be glad for you guardian angel because that think probably didn't belongs to you. Raise your head and carry on with your battle of life.

You've Got a Problem? That's Good!
When you are faced with a problem that needs a solution, regardless of how perplexing it may be:
* Ask for Divine Guidance; ask for help in finding the right solution.
* Engage in thinking time for the purpose of solving your problems. Remember that every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who have PMA.
* State the problem. Analyze and define it.
* State to your self enthusiastically: “That's good!”
* Ask to yourself some specific questions such as:
(a) What's good about it?
(b) How can I turn this adversity into a seed of equivalent or greater benefit; or how can I turn this liability into a greater asset?

* Keep searching for answers to these questions until you find at least one answer that can work.

God is always a good God!
It used to be really hard to me face that if I was in trouble and had a problem I had to solve it by my self, most of the time with no help at the first sight I had to be glad for that, I use to think how crazy it could be. But nowadays I am so glad when something like that happen in my life, troubles or problems to solve, that means have to face the battle of my life, the challenges big or small ones.

A practical example of that in my life, when I'm playing my volley ball. Come on, all the time I have to be better and better on the squares here in my hometown or in other city like Brasilia or Sao Paulo. Like a warrior I have to be in battle and be prepared for any kind of challengers. Some times they can be easy, weak and not smart than me other times they can be so much more strongers, tallers than me, with more experience than me. What I could beat guys like that?!? Easy, I have to concentrate more than normal, put my focus on the game, play with my heart and soul, mistakes can be really deadly so I need avoid them, before ask for Divinity help I need to find my self and trust on me on my instincts. I need to see me as a champion not only for me but for my team, help them and encourage them to reach the victory or even play a good battle. Be a leadership. I have to analyze my adversary until find the weakness point, than use it against him. I have to use my ability to turn the bad situation in something benefic for me and my team.

When you are losing a game the best way break the concentration of your adversary is looks happy and victorious it makes him or she so confuse than the concentration goes down and this moment you have to use your power with wisdom and quickly most of the time you can change your bad situation for a god one. And to tell the truth every time I have to face a bad situation or I becoming a looser I growing inside and a giant warrior takes place in my spirit and I become a winner just because I believe and I decided to face the battle and don't be a coward.

2. Can you relate the ideas or concepts in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as your relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, etc? Please use personal examples in your explanation.

Sure I can relate this book with me especially nowadays that for the only way to reach my goals and desires is using my magic talisman with the PMA side of course. Like Tom Dempsey, I reach my goals part of them in volleyball. I'm not tall, but I'm fast and agile, I wished to be a singer, I never took voice class but I had the enthusiasm to learn to do sing in a right way even nowadays I've been learn a lot and I believe I will do it forever in my life. I wish be an actor, so nowadays I can be on stage, with no fear just a little anxious but it is normal. So little by little I reach my goals and beat all the challengers to reach them. But even on sex I had changes because nowadays if my partner isn't feeling good or is too much nervous and anxious I know how to change this situation and make them feeling so relaxing and free to use their imagination.

This book is relating with my conception of moral relationship beliefs and way to see the life. I'll never blame God for nothing that happens in my life especially nowadays. We can choose our own path and decisions so sometimes we could chose a bad one. But we always could have the chance to change and back for the good one.

3. What are the most important new ideas or concepts you learned from this book? Please Explain.

This book just confirmed to me my ideas that I already had in how to take care of my own life. But I like so much learn how to achieve the PMA and how to repel the NMA. How to change my own world, and how to meet the most important person in my life and who is he in fact. I loved learn how to see how to really observe everything around me. And I loved so much learned how to motivate others around me. Because every one of this items complements the others. All of this made me see the things so much more positive instead negative as I used to do in the past. Now because I've been practicing all of them in my own life think are happen all the time to me. So many good things and of course if I have to be in the battle of life I will not run from it. I will use all my knowledge to beat the challenge and believe me I will be a winner because now I learned how to use my PMA talisman side.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way? If so, explain how?

As I said before this book just confirmed my own way to think and all my points of view that I have about how to have a good way to live own my life. This time I didn't find any challenge but of course it will change my life deepest from now one. But in resume most to the author's points of view I agree.

5. Are there ideas in the book that you totally disagree with? If so, why?

I don't have anything to disagree about this book or about the author; the book was really nice and useful to me. All the ideas and concept combines exactly the way that I always thought about my own life.

6. What did you find most helpful and least helpful in this book?

For the most helpful idea is the whole idea bout to have the control of your own life, have courage, dare in be in battle of life, change your own world and learn how to explore the power of your mind and thoughts and learn how to control them in benefit for your self and the ones who surrounds you. And of course the poser to have, control and find the PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and how to avoid and repel the NMA (Negative Mental Attitude) from your life.

And the least helpful is the “Get Rid of That Guilt Feeling”; because nowadays I can't feel myself like that ever. So thinking positive I just can feel guilt about nothing because I have been the master of my attitudes, decisions and thoughts. Just like that.

7. In 50 words or less, please describe the main idea the whole book is trying to convey.

For me the book is trying to show us about how important is the good and positive away to think. The talisman pictures give us a good idea how to use it like a good and bad path you can chose in your life the same way works this talisman. You can use it to achieve the PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) or to achieve NMA (Negative Mental Attitude); it will be your choice how to use it. But the whole idea of the book resume in how to use the positive Mental Attitude and get so many gratitude in our lives or be a looser and suffer by use the Negative Mental Attitude and have your goals and dreams exterminated for it.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 9
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9.5

Comments:
Well this book helped me to find my self once again, now I am really sure that I am the most important living person to my self, I have the power to change my own life and directions so from now one I could be the master of my thoughts and decisions. And I'm growing day by day living not my past or future life but my present one and it is so precious to me. That's my opinion.

Psycho -Cybernetics 2000
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil)

1. What Ideas were personally most important to you in this book? Do not simply list the ideas, but explain or discuss why they were important to you, using personal examples.

This book called my all my attention in fact this is the best book I ever found!

Where's the Road to Achievement Begins

“You Have the Power to Create Change…

Self-Image: The Key to Your Personality & to a Better Life: Maltz responded that all behavior - all actions, all feelings, all human capabilities - was defined by the self-image. No real behavioral changes could take place unless the self-image was changed. Anyone could start a new and self-fulfilling life by changing his self-image. Maltz simple step-by-step “how to” model for creating and maintaining a new self-image went something like this:

* Understand the role imagination plays in self-perception;
* Use your imagination to create images of success;
* Identify, confront and cast off false beliefs that provide negatives tapes for your internal guidance system;
* Decondition yourself from stressful emotional responses that prevent your internal guidance system from working effectively;
* Set specific goals of success for your internal guidance system;
* Cultivate specific aspects of personality that lead to success;
* Use your negative experiences as feedback to correct your course toward your goal;
* Remove the emotional scars that inhibit your personality;
* Deflect assaults on your self-esteem by responding appropriately and creatively to emotional pressures;
* Build feelings of success into your personality.

I Have for many times in my life to face some kind a changes, it took such long time to create my present personality. During my adolescence which was the worse time in my life. I was looking for my own personality. During that time I always was trying to be someone else. Like a babe imitating its parents little by little I was trying to find my own self-image. But many times I was putting myself in bad and embarrassed situation, most of them very ridiculous. It was strange, because I was always blaming my parents for this. I miss so much has a father by my side. Because my mommy having to keep very close to my step-father which was blind and deaf most of the time I was alone only with my self. I just got start to find my self only after I enjoyed a group of actors in a theater. My step-father had already passed away. So I was stronger because all of the experiences that I had to live by that.

At the theater place I was able to start to understand and learn how to use my whole imagination and self-perception. My problem as an actor was my self-confidence was very weak. I was so insecure and every time I was trying to call the attention of the others by my side. But all that I got with it was looking for them be so ridiculous and desperate guy. Just after reach my thirties age I got to fine a little peace of mind and the thing that I always was looking for in my life since my adolescence. My self-confidence. Since I started with my studies with the Institute little by little I was able to get stronger this self-confidence and I'm getting feeling my self more secure.

It was so wonderful and good to me to learn to hear my inner voice, my conscious, my internal guidance system. In the past I was always in trouble because I avoided hear and pay attention in my internal guidance system. Now in many times this inner voice keeps my life secure and safe from any king of bad situations. And how can I do that? Simple, just avoid any kind of stressful situation in my life, keeping my self dew and alert in all my goals and projects.

I have a really strong personality, I have my own opinion and point of view, and I can fight for everything that I believe. I have a big sense of criticism and sometimes I can be an unbearable person because that. I am like that because nowadays I know how to deal with my own life and I hate people which want to have control in others lives.

I have been learning so much with all the experiences that my life gives to me, but I am a lucky person I just had in my life few bad experiences. But with all them I learn so much about me and who to treat person better than in the past. So I am a person which is able to learn with the mistakes of the past, I believe they are so important in our lives especially in my own.

I made many things which I regret, but no one has a time machine to return and fix mistakes so you just must find the ability to changes your bad experiences to something in you favor. Of course learn from them it's the most important thing to do. But I have a block to do that sometimes, my worst enemy: My pride, my arrogance sometimes, and my insistence of keeping my emotional scares. And every time I do it I give a step behind to my goals and progress in life. I have been learning that keeps grudges are so bad inside and with me outside my body too. How to deal with that? Try to forget the past most of it and just learn from it something really useful for your progress than forget all the others things which are able to keep you on it don't live your pass but learn from it.

So nowadays I'm living a day after the other and I do not live my past or even my future just my present. With it I am able to create good feeling and pictures in my mind and than my goals are becoming more real to me day by day. And I can get change my own personality for something that really makes me happy and brings good things to me.

The CRAFT of Reprogramming: Five Steps to a New Self-Image: How can you take the control of your creative mechanism and reprogram it as a success mechanism? Think of reprogramming your automatic mechanism as a CRAFT:
1. C-ancel
2. R-eplace
3. A-ffirm
4. F-ocus
5. T-rain

* Cancel the old, negative data; Replace it with new image to yourself; Focus on an image of a successful you; Train yourself for lasting change;
* Your Two Minds ----- And how to change them;
* The Two principles of the Subconscious Mind:
- The agreement principle: The subconscious mind always says “yes” to everything the conscious mind tells it.
- The compliance principle: The subconscious mind always moves in the directions in which the conscious mind points it.

* The Two principles of the Conscious Mind:
- The selection principle: The conscious mind looks at options and makes purposeful choices among them.
- The elimination principle: Once the conscious mind has made its selection, all other possible options are eliminated for that given moment.

* Free Yourself From False Beliefs.

For me the idea of the reprogramming my thoughts through the CRAFT look so precious to me. Once again I can use my volley ball activity as an example.

Let's imagine. I'm a foreigner guy came from Goiânia, now I'm here in Brasília, I'm dying to play my volley ball, but when I found a good group of players to play it I have to prove to all of them how good I can be. Well I'm not tall and I'm not so strong like most of them. But I can reach the air very easily and I have will power and no fear. But most of them are ex. volley ball player's professionals. They know this sport so much better than me. They have such amazing experiences that I never had. The net that they play are very high and at the first sight they all looks giants to my eyes. Of course I'm a little worried about it. But I have to use the CRAFT conception to deal and beat this situation.

First it will be impossible to me play my best volley ball in that time feeling fear. So first I have to “Cancel” this sensation and “Replace” it in my mind: I will have to start to “Affirm” to my self: “I can play a good volley ball to”, I can have less experience than them but I can fly and just some of them can do it. I still looks younger than most of them, so I have vitality, and I can be more speed than some of them, so it could be the ace of spades under my sleeve. All that I'll have to do get this is reach the best level of my concentration and keeps my “Focus” on my way to play this game. And at least change every one of my mistakes in something in my favor, “Training” this as a precious exercise not only for this game but for all my life. With all of that I'll reach my goals for now and ever.

But of course it wasn't easy that time and never will be. My part of my mind was telling me all the time. Come on, Throw the towel, you are not good enough to this guys, you are so short, they have a huge block and you don't use to deal with tall blockers against your hits like that. You can not beat them, give it up.

But I'm a warrior when I'm in a match. So I started to ignore my mind and keep all my focus just on the game, I just let my mind talk to me only to make a correction or give me some kind of advices. Like: “Hey you can block this guy, just keep you eyes on his arms and follow the ball and you will get him”; or “come on, you were blocked three times, look, just use your ability to twist your body in the air and you will hit the ball with no contact.”
So I usually prefer to listen only my subconscious mind during a match than give any attention to my conscious mind that always are trying to push me away from my goals.
So I believe when the author says: “False Beliefs Can Build Invisible Walls”. So everything that looks negative to your life and phrases like: “I can't, it's impossible, I give up, etc.” Every Time you said something like that, you are building “Invisible Walls” and those will block your progress. Why to do that? Why don't you turn New Memories into Positive Behavior? Just train every day how to overcome your built-in resistance to change. Create new memories and reach positives ideas to your life only.

Give Your Success Mechanism Some Slack: Learn To Relax:

* Stress: Private Enemy Number One;
* How Relaxation Helped Save a Friendship;
* How Relaxation Can Keep Your Healthy;
* Relaxation: A Key to Reflective Relearning;
* Zen Breathing;
* Seven Tips for Making Relaxation a Way of Life.

Wow, since I met Patrick in my life, he told me something about relaxation. I'm a really stressed person; I probably was born already under stress. Just after reach my present age I finally found a way to control this monster inside of me. I agree with the author, Stress is our private enemy number One! When I was in Brasília I had so many bad times, so I don't have any doubt about that those times almost made me move my self to a madhouse. I had terrible health problems, stomach problems, and kidney problems too. I'm a very anxious person so I use to suffer a lot because of this.

When I finally found Patrick he show me a little of his secret to keep his very agitated life and even that keep his mind and be successful in all of his projects. The secret is: Relaxation!
For many times I was totally under control but we didn't have a big fight because every time it could be happen he was very relaxed and very Zen so he was able to keep the control of the whole situation and of course of my self too.

I always had problems to relax but with him and follow the instructions from the temple that I used to go to find a little peace of mind and all the treatments that I had to start from there. I finally figured out how to relax and the importance that this has to all my life. Now I'm able to keep the control and I can avoid fights against my friends, parents whatever, and I'm able to keep in safe my healthy and serenity. All that experiences helped me so much nowadays. I can play better because I'm relaxed, I can think so much better and keep my concentration and I can use better my reasoning to find a better way to solve any kind of problem that I can find in my life.

2. Can you relate the ideas or concepts in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as your relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, etc? Please use personal examples in your explanation.

This book touched me so deeply. I just can relate this most of its pages with my own life. The main idea fixed to me perfectly!

At the same day that I decided to read this book, many things changed in my life. First because I was really upset and a little depressed because I had a phone call from the school that I teach, it was just my first class and one of the students didn't like my class and blame me for her lack of comprehension. So I was so sad even got to prove to the director that I was right and the only one guilt in this story was the student. But I was blaming myself building invisibles wall. So suddenly for the first time in my life I decide to turn this situation in my favor. So I decide to look for help in this book. When I started to read it, the changes starts simultaneously. I'm really calm and I can keep the whole control when I have to deal with my “family problems” and relationships, about my beliefs I'm totally secure and right about what I want to believe or not the same to my values. But, when I have to deal with the ways that I have to find to reach my goals in life I could find some problem yet.
The problem is, I'm getting old, I'm looking to have a career, anyone a good one. Be an actor, a designer, a graphic designer a musician, no matter I just want to find my way to have my own and definitive career. So when I started to read this book at the same time I start the exercises and I paid too much attention in all those tips on it. And, wow…it's helped me so much! So I went to bed at the same time as I usually go and while I was trying to sleep I was exercising my brain and the Zen breathing, and my CRAFT tips and picturing just good things in my mind. And guess what? It was work to me! Next day I was to my class and everything was very positive. So after that I just decided have this book as one of my favorite one from this day.

3. What are the most important new ideas or concepts you learned from this book? Please Explain.

This book just confirmed the huge importance that everyone must have to relaxation. How important to me to keep my self thinking all the time positive. How magic is the Zen breathing and how to learn CRAFT. How to pay more attention to my Subconscious and how to avoid my conscious take place in my decisions and how negative it could be if I allow it. How to avoid create false beliefs and invisible walls in my path. How important is use my mind and imagination to create good and positive pictures in my mind. How stress can be came my worse enemy and how I can bring good changes to my life, learning from the mistakes of my past and forget all the scared from it. And picture a better view to my self.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way? If so, explain how?

No, this time this book didn't change my thinking but challenged me a lot! Just because I'm a very anxious person, it's very hard to me always do to get relax or ever concentrate my self for some couple of hours. So when I started to believe that I could get hold this situation, many things changed in my life. But of course it was a challenger to me, but I was able to face it and became victorious.

5. Are there ideas in the book that you totally disagree with? If so, why?

I don't have anything to disagree about this book or about the author; the book was really wonderful and very very useful to me. All the ideas are exactly what I always tried to find to become a better person to my self.

6. What did you find most helpful and least helpful in this book?

For me the most helpful idea is the whole idea that we have to have good thoughts and think positive always to get our goals in life. We need to know ourselves very deep and we need to find the control of all emotions especially bad ones. To deal with them when they appears. We need to take a time for ourselves to find peace of mind in relaxation and we need to believe that the power to create changes lies in our own hands.
There's no “least helpful ideas on it!”

7. In 50 words or less, please describe the main idea the whole book is trying to convey.

For me as I already said: How to control your thoughts, importance to have good vibrations, thoughts and make positive pictures in your mind to find always good solutions in your life and make your dreams and goals became true. How important is to find a time for yourself to get in touch with your mind and soul meditating and relaxing for some couple of ours, our body will be glad for that. How functional is learn how to use and activate the CRAFT.  And how to use your brain, and which side you can allow talk to you in a positive way.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? (10)
B. How helpful were the contents? (10)
C. How easy was it to understand? (10)
D. Would you recommend it to others? (10)
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? (99)

Comments - Feel free to share any additional comments about the book or the ratings:

Well this book helped me a lot to find my peace of mind. To get rid off my worse enemy: Stress and anxiety! I'm so glad to learn how to use a Mandala, how to listen and pay attention on my conscience's voice. How to avoid build invisibles walls to block my progress. Anyhow I just loved this book from the deepest of my heart.

Keys To Success
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim

1. What Ideas were personally most important for you in this book?

Establish A Mastermind Alliance
Maintain Your Alliance;
Form A Mastermind Alliance With Yourself;
Cultivate Mastermind Alliance wherever You Can:

Well what I understand from this book is the importance of create a Master Mind Alliance. It's not so simple like that. The hardest thing to do is find people which are able to help you, people willing to give success and your life. Especially nowadays, when most of the people are so selfish. Find someone that really want to help you to progress in life and want to enjoy your crew to establish a Mastermind Alliance it's not an easy thing to do

Of course it's demands an extremely dedication, will power to make it possible. The secret is to find only person which really wants to see you happy, able to help you to reach your goals and people able to help you with their experiences in life. That's what I believe. I'm a lucky person, so I already have those peoples in my life. In fact my Alliance it's made by for four members, of course it can be changed any time, but now I decided that four it's a really good number for me. Why? Because quantity don't mean to me quality! I mean I just want to have people surrounding me which really want to help me to reach my own goals, but of course I want to help them at the same time. That is a really idea of a good crew. Like the author said; it's just like a train and I am the conductor. I can maintain this alliance with attention, sharing all the experiences with my chosen ones, bad and good, trying all the time work as a group not individual. And paying attention all the time, and observing if someone is riding out from the true path.
And in the end for me the true secret to keep this alliance is: LOVE, TRUST AND SHARE, all, everything, anything with the ones in your crew.

Control Your Enthusiasm
The Benefits of Controlled Enthusiasm;
The Dangers of Uncontrolled Enthusiasm;
Criticizing Without Destroying Enthusiasm:

My, I am almost sure, in fact, I really believe that my one of my worth weakness in life is the Uncontrolled Enthusiasm that my person shows in many times in my life. It has been really strange to me; I find something to show my enthusiasm than after few days I just cannot stand that thing. All my enthusiasm just vanishes and here I am, looking for a new thing once again.

It is a not good situation to be in. Just because you never are able to finish something at least. In the end you get a strange sensation of frustration in your life a big empty inside you.

So for me it is really important know how to keep my enthusiasm controlled how to avoid over enthusiasm and uncontrolled one.

For example, when I become really enthusiasm things starts to lose the control in my life, I use to tell to any one about the reason that I'm enthusiastic that moment, bad idea nowadays I know it. So I believe that right moment I create a huge camp of envy energy around me. That makes all my goals and plans fail at the same time. So nowadays I'm trying so hard to learn how to control this frantic enthusiasm. First I'm trying to keep my goals and plans just for me and for the members of my truly crew. Than I just try to live my life one day after another, I mean, do not think too much about the future, and take all the opportunities that my present is giving to me now.

For me the benefits to have my Enthusiasm controlled are: I can reach with more certainty my goals in life, I am able to finish all my projects with no bad interferences and I can avoid envy from the others.
The dangers for me are: in the end you have the risk to see all your goals and plans flopping; you surround yourself with envy energies; and you become a frustrated person.

Wow, this is another problem that I have in my life I'm too critic. I can critic anything that I face; people, places, objectives anything. But life teaches you every single day don't you agree?!? Well I found in my life someone which is more critic than me! He is really unbearable sometimes or almost every time! So being a victim of his criticisms made me see in myself how unbearable I was too. So most of the time I did that as the person that I knew use to do, with no intention to commit damages in others lives but to make the person better for him or her self. Now I know that I could bring to them more damages than gratifications with my criticism. Because I knew that in many times I destroyed the enthusiasm of this person. I of course that is the reason for me have lost so many friendships in my life.

A mistake that I have to take care how to avoid to commit in my life once again, forever.

Learn From The Adversity And Defeat
Everyone Faces Defeat;
Adversity Becomes a Blessing;
The Benefits of Defeat:

I really agree with the author when he said that everyone faces defeat, no one is safe from this and this is really important for our development in this life.

In many times I had good examples who to see benefits in adversities. For example, it was really clear to me when I had an accident backing from school that time it was in 84 or something. I was really stressed, the place that I use to study was a hell in earth that time, everyone was a delinquents, some really dangerous some not. I used to be all the time stole from them; in the end I missed my lunch all the time. I had to spend all day long with no food, sometimes one or two of my classroom mates used to shared their lunch with me, sometimes. In that place I learned how to fight to survive, I mean all the time I was involved in a kind of quarrel, but it happened one day suddenly I just decided no more be a victim of those idiots but I could be a fighter as they were. My step father use to warning me: “If you be involved in a quarrel, fight until win or if you loose you will have to face me here so you will be in trouble anyway.” That was my step father. Anyhow, I learned how to fight too, than I started to be violent with anyone. One day I was really tired, too much stress on my mind, body and soul, but I was made a deal with my step father: he promised to me take me in my vacation to Rio de Janeiro, if I survived in that hell and if I get my certificate, I was in a Elementary School that time the 5 year, It was my second tentative to graduate in that. I tried before but I was so angry with my family because I wish so much to studying with my friends but it wasn't happen until I became an unbearable person for all my family! We had that time summer time so every day I had to wake up very dark yet I took my bike and the way to my school every day. Than I just left the school only after 6:00 pm. I was almost going crazy! After normal class during the day I had to be in a Graphics Studio, my I really hated that! I wish smack my instructor, and all my mates. I just loved when he became really sick, and they replaced our class to a photographic studio, wow, that was really nice! But like I was telling, I was really stressed, one day I was return to my home and I didn't saw the car, the only thing that remember was a old woman screaming, then my mind became dark, when I recover my conscious I saw a man very worried about me, he took me to my home my bike was a mess, I had been overruled by this man. He was very kind with me. After this day mommy understood me that I was going crazy and something could be worth if I still continue in that school. So I had to give up of the deal between me and my step father, it was really hard, sad and frustrating to me that time, I was losing my trip to Rio de Janeiro, my brand new tricycle, all the opportunities to have many gifts. But it was that or my sanity and healthy. The only one which gave me true support was my mommy one her. It was in the middle of the year so I had another problem, how could I be in my home the rest of the year doing nothing while my friends were getting ready to become graduated? No one schools wished accept me. So I remind mommy to ask her if I could start an English course. And she looked at me stared me and said, “Son, It is really expensive but let's see what can I do about it.” So she asked me where I wish to study and I said I'm dying to enjoy the CCAA school, I was already had a contact with their method before when I was a little kid in my second school, and I just loved it. We went there she was in shock when she knew about the prices, it was really expensive everything there: books, enrollment, and the dues. But I will never forget what she said to me: “Dear, I will have to use my allowance that your step father gives to me I will have to choose between me and you and I choose you, but you have to promise to me that you will do your best for the first time in your life I will give the chance to you to prove me that you can show me your best side, do you agree?!?”

Of course I said to her; Eyes!!! I was fifteen or sixteen years old. No one from my family gave to me support for that, in fact I was hardly criticized because that. But mommy gave all the support, even my step father was so mad with me because I had to broke our deal, the he stopped talk to me during one or two years. Hard times I had to face. And I had to turn all of this in my own favor. When the New Year arrived I had another chance to choose the place that I wish study once again my mommy saved me, and I had to make another promise to her this time I had to promise that I will do my best and I will get good grades and all my subjects in the school.
So as everyone can see in the end I had a bad time in my life but I got turned all the situations in my favor. I mean all the adversities in that time that I had to faced became Blessings in my life.

2. Personal Impact - Can you relate the ideas or concepts in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as your relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, etc?

For me my personal impact from this book is: The Adversity Becomes a Blessing;
I had some good examples in my life, like when I injured seriously my left knee. My before this happen I use to play really bad my volley ball. I was totally wild and crazy; I was a risk in human flesh form. I used to injure many from my mates during the matches. But when this accident happened I had to be stay away from the squares for such a long time. While I was away from it, I started to go to a clubs just to use the pools and when I was there I used to exercise my knee there, it started to makes my knee more and stronger with any surgery. While I was away from the volley ball I started to thing why all of that happened to me, what were the reasons for and how to avoid it happens again in my life. Than I had to face that I was the guilt for that. So I started to correct myself all my mistakes that I used to do in the volley ball. And nowadays I am so much better than in the past. My I don't have the risk to injure myself like in the past and I am not able to do the same with my mates during our matches. As anyone can see once again an adversity in my life became a nice blessing.

3. What are the most important new ideas or concepts you learned from this book? Explain them:

The Habit of Smiling;
Facial Expression;
Eating Habits;
Sleep;
Rhythms in Relaxation;
Sex and Sublimation:

This book showed to me how importance is for every one has the habit of smiling. My, you can really safe your day if you have a smile n your face. You can even safe lives and heal persons with a single smile. I really believe that. It is the same about the Facial expression, when you are mad your faces shows everything of your emotional state, you are not able to hidden nothing. The same happens when you are so happy, so for me the best way to keep your facial expression is keep your face serene. With your face like that you can release just good feeling and energy for everyone.

For example one day I got a buss I was with a bad expression in my face so everyone started to observe me of course that everyone was really scarred every time those were looking at me. So when I took the buss to return I just decided to change my expression and put in my face a serenity expression. Wow, after that some kids start to look at me I felt the change of the energy that was surround me that moment, it was like a magic, people start to smile to me or look at me with a good vibration. From this point I understood how the importance of you keeps a good expression in your face.

The author called my attention for something that I have really badly in my life the Eating Habits. I used to eat really badly. Sometimes I can't even eat something and sometimes I just eat things like: candies, snacks something like that. Sure I used to have serious problems with my stomach. Nowadays I'm feeling better, because last time that I forgot to eat I almost faint during a volley ball match. My fellows helped me there. So after that every Sunday when I play I use to each this: carbohydrates like potatoes, Protein specially meat and fruits I prefer bananas and apples. I like to take Gatorade with me to during the matches. So with all of that I avoid face that situation and I keep far from me the risk to faint in a game.

The other point that the author called my attention is the importance of sleep. I know that in my own skin. I can't think well when I have sleepless nights; I use to be really moody when it happens. Now I understand how importance is for anyone of us sleeps well. I had problems with sleepless nights so I believe that the techniques that I learned from the book: Psycho Cybernetics 2000 and from this book here. They are making my sleep more constant. So I believe that the tips for a good relaxation here in this book will help me so much more.

And at least Rhythms in Relaxation and Sex and Sublimation. Just in few words: for me, both are complete each other. There is now way in my opinion to exist sex without total relaxation, I am not able to have a wonderful and magic sex with been relax totally. I just experiment this sensation with only one person. And wow it is so magic that you almost can feel any pain or something bad in your body. It's seems you are numb, almost outside your own body, you are almost flying, your mind is free, no worries nothing are able to bother you. You and your partner looks as the same in one person two bodies become one. So I just was able to feel like that once in my life. Pity.
So in the end I figured out that the good sex is the one that you are completely in relaxation state you and your partner too.

4 - Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way? If so, explain how:

Yes, it challenged me to pay attention so much more of my: sleep, my facial expressions, how to change my habit of eat and at least how to find relaxation and have good times in sex.
And sure changed me a lot for a better person. Now I'm able to carry on with my studies and find day by day better solutions for most of my ordinaries problems.

5. Are there ideas in the book that you totally disagree with? If so, why?

I don't have anything to disagree about this book or about the author. This book was really wonderful for my life and changed me deepest.

6 - What did you find most helpful and least helpful in this book?

For me the most helpful idea is the idea how to see in adversity blessings times. Change bad situation in a good one like magic but in this case it is really real.
For me there's none “least helpful” ideas on this book.

7. In 50 words or less, please describe the main idea the whole book is trying to convey.

The main idea resume in that everyone's holding your own key to success. We just need to form and cultivate with really careful our Mastermind Alliance; using all the time our PMA (Positive mental attitude) we are able to find our path to happiness. We also need to have the control of our enthusiasm, we need to learn how to see Blessings in an Adversity and we need to learn how to use the Cosmic Habitforce to reach our goals and wishes.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9.7
 

Part 9 - Comments - Feel free to share any additional comments about the book or the ratings:

Well this book was really helpful to me a lot. I just loved it and I hope that all the experiences, tips and informations that I found on it help me to reach all my goals and become a better person for myself every single day.

What To Say When You Talk To Yourself
Assessment by Sílvio Brandespim (Brazil)

1. What Ideas were personally most important to you in this book? Do not simply list the ideas, but explain or discuss why they were important to you, using personal examples.

Looking For A Better Way

You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true,
You are everything you choose to be.
You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

What I understand of these words is that the author is saying and showing for everyone how magic and precious our thoughts can be. Everything in our life depends of our thoughts. Your can have positive and negatives ones. The first move you ahead to a good path in your life, the latter make you stuck in the middle of nowhere and you aren't able to make any progress in your life. You can be everything and have anything you want but first you have to learn how to control and be your own master, the master of your decisions and of your mind.

“The Answers”

Not only once but many times in my life I've been waiting or searching for an answers to some of my problems. Can be: financials, emotional, personal, etc. I've been found the answers on books, movies or even inside myself. Believe me all that you must have to do is pay attention on the signals of the life. The answers you can find in the most ordinary thing in this world or not. But you always must believe that the true answer lies inside you…and in the deepest of your conscience and your success depends of your right choices.

The End Result Of Your Own Thoughts:

As I said before, your future and progress in life depends of your attitude and thoughts. So if you think positive even in the bad moments of your life of course things will be positive for you and positives answers will bring to you only good results. If you think negative, well bad things will happen in your life more easily.

What Works and What Doesn't:

I agree with the author said about to program our brain with a more successful “new picture” of ourselves and with positives thoughts to reach happiness and success in our lives. But sometimes you can find some authors not so sincere and all that they said in their books looks to much easy to reach. I already know that when you face something that apparently looks too simple in fact isn't not to simple in fact it's harder than looks like. So I believe that triumph came from hard work and positive thoughts. But I agree with the author said about believe and choose self-help literature which makes and teaches you:
Believe in yourself
Keep your priorities straight
Focus on what you want
Learn how to visualize the outcome of your goals
Never let anyone control your destiny for
Be creative
Think Big
Control Stress
Be aggressive and assertive
Think positively
Have courage
Be strong
Keep motivated
Meditate
Recognize that success is more than money