As A Man Thinketh
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most import ant to you in this book?

A man is made up of by his thought. Thoughts are the basis of who I am. My behavior is the out burst of what I think or intentions towards anything. Whatever a man wants to be depends on the mind and attitude of that person that makes him to achieve his desires. A man has two possibilities in life, is either a man wants to live a good or a bad life. There are different procedures to both lives. What that person conceives in his mind to do will be the decision he has taken.

The mind of a man produces good and bad thoughts; it only depends on what I feed my mind with, which reveals what has been going on in my mind. Positive thoughts bring positive results, negative thoughts bring negative behavior.

I do not need to be harsh or angry to achieve my aims, I can achieve a better result if I am calm and well calculated, what I need to do is to make my mind balance and to get rid of things that can change my attitude towards pursuing my goals.

My dreams needs to be connected to my thought , this will yield a very good and long lasting result, but if my thoughts are not inline (connected) to my dreams, the end result will be confusion.

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, yours values, e.t.c.

This book is a personal instructor in all facets of life. It has challenged my life towards transformation because it’s showing me what I need to apply to my life to achieve my dreams. I have been made for a purpose and there has to be training, I cannot be given a position that I was not trained for. I can witness it from my day to day activities. Friends, siblings and others tend to test your patience, honesty, self-control and endurance. Circumstances come my way in times I do not expect in order to be tested and see my performance towards it, of course, I fail at times and I feel bad for myself but whenever I pass the test, its like achieve the world. People around me also help me develop the person I ought to be, this has taught me to be alert at all times to receive any circumstance. Being a leader is a place of no excuse for failure, its better I get all the training I need to get in order to meet my dreams in future.

Power dwells in the mind, the way I prepare my mind in accordance to an activity that is how I will behave. A secret of where I need to work on to enable the parts of my body to follow has been revealed. In all I do or what I need to do my mind needs to approve of it, but if my mind is negative about it, the mind needs to be worked on. Another thing I have noticed in achieving my goal is to have a strong will towards it. That produces endurance for facing hardships that might be on the way to future success. Strong will is like a cushion that will soften the hurdles I might face in my life’s journey. There is something that fears me about my dreams and goals, fighting against wrongs and ills of the society are not an easy task, which my stand has to be strong to withstand things like death and attack to my present and future families, this is where the power of my mind needs to be more strengthened and put in to practice, this needs days or months to be put in place and with God’s help, cause we are advised to stand for the truth till death.

This book has challenged my spiritual attitude, goals, values and relationships in general. I have learnt to work with positive mind in pursuing a goal. I have learnt to do away with “I cannot….” in my vocabulary. Things do not just happen, we make them happen through our thoughts and attitude, my words are interpretation of my thought and also strong and goes along way in determining what we might be able to do or not able to do, words can also paint picture(s) of my strengths and my weaknesses, I need not to have limitations, I hope to reach and go above my targets and my dreams. I have to possess self control over my thought and how I want to go about with it.

The words of my mouth are also strong as relating to my thoughts; I need to suppress the negative thoughts in order to allow the positive thoughts and words out to have a positive achievement.

Failures, as I have learnt is an opportunity to do better in what I could not give my best to earlier on, I should be challenged to do better than my initial trial. I was faced with such opportunity in my first semester when I failed my French language exam, I did not only do better, but I understood the language more and my interest in the language grew more, that will lead me to studying French as a language during my summer holiday. Also in my secondary school, history was a subject I did not really like, but today, all my courses have their roots in history of not only Nigeria's history but the world at large. My mind had to be willing to be interested in history since it’s a step to achieving my dreams. That’s to say my mind was linked to my dreams, guess I was in tune with this institute in my spirit. This also leads me to say that wherever our dreams are taking us to; either people we do not ever want to meet, places we do not want to go, life is all about sacrifices, I have to sacrifice and do away with some few minute pleasure in order to get a long lasting achievement that brings Joy, happiness, peace of mind and love. These attributes might even increase someone’s life span due to the fulfillment I or anyone will get in future.

Thank you Mr. Michael for such an opportunity, I pray your dreams in Life will be met through this institute and other things you out your heart to do. You are blessed indeed.

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

The mind is the seat of all character, behavior, attitude of an individual. What goes on in an individual’s mind over and over again becomes part of that person as character and will be hard to do away with. The control of these ideas is just like the President and all the remaining states. Proper coordination is necessary for that President or Governor to get fame towards the masses in meeting their basic needs. The mind also has needs that ought to be met, and that is control and endurance. These strengthen the mind in order to produce good thoughts for the benefit of the behavior of a person. I need to feed mine with control and endurance so as to get good coordination with calmness to succeed.

Everyone has equal chances in the same world to do different things, but it all depends in the mind set of the person to know his/her chances, dreams, goals, and how to go about doing them. Is one thing to know ones goal and another to link it to ones thought or mind. If the person is willing to know his dreams he/she will know and there is no interest then that matter will become a forgotten issue, unless that person is ready. There is no encourager better than that person himself. People might give encouraging words, but it’s left for me or anyone to work by the encouragement.

Fame and greatness is obtained and sustained by honesty, when deceit and bad attitude or fraudulent activities are the basis of fame, it will not last, and that person will achieve humiliation at the end.

Worry or fear is an indication of a weak mind, this leads to failure and can eject a person from being in the right environment and understanding will be far from such a person.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in anyway?

This book has challenged me in all ways. I have seen that my attitude needs to undergo some restructuring; I need to be calm and balanced to be able to achieve better results than being angry.

My body, soul, spirit are all slaves to my mind, i.e. my mind makes these good or bad, I need to work for positive actions to achieve good results.

I need to allow my mind and thoughts to be flexible to both harsh and good circumstances because my reaction to both circumstances tells who I am.

The secret of success or failure rests on my thought and what I believe. A successful mind is a successful life, and a failing mind makes a life full of sorrows. I am who I am in the way I think, so thinking right makes me to act right, thinking in a wrong pattern produces wrong attitude.

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

No

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

This book has taught me what I can do and not what I cannot do. “I cannot” is already thrown away from my vocabulary. What I believe will work for me. I have realized the power of the mind in achieving my goals. The most important thing is to keep an open passage positive thoughts and keep a sieve to bad thoughts to produce a positive Jeremiah for my present and future achievements.

I should learn to be more focused, know my purpose(s) in life and how to achieve it (them),then other things can come in, first things first, I have learnt to be calm and make sure my dreams a fused to my thoughts.

I have found nothing least helpful in this book, writing this will make me not to be honest to myself, which is the greatest deceit ever. What I have known was shown to me in differs ways and I had more understanding, the new things I found out made me understand my situations even more and helpful to my pursuit. I am still on a journey that needs road signs, and I know with the help of God, IIGL is among the road signs that have come my way and will lead me to my destination safe and sound in good condition.

7. In 50 words or less explain the main idea of the book.

The main idea of the book is I am a maker of myself. My mind represents who I am. The outflow of my thoughts is seen in my behavior. I am a good or bad person due to what I put in my mind and what I exhibit outside, with or without advice.

Rating
A) How interesting was it to read 8
B) How helpful were the contents? 9
C) How easy was it to understand? 8
D) Would you recommend it to others? 10
E) What is the overall rating you would give it? 8.5

Your books are directly speaking to me, telling me more on where to work on in my life and knowing that my dreams are positive.
I have come to understand more of what I go through in life; it’s as a result of my state of mind.
My spiritual life is seriously challenged too towards growth and more sincerity.
Thanks a lot for your books.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

This book is a rich book full of important ideas brought to me. These will be seen subsequently.

It is good to listen to all advice given to someone but it’s not all the advice that will be put to practice. Some have to be implemented and the others have to be thrown away. The advices to be implemented are those that will hasten or improve my rate of achievement. I have learnt to have focus and the procedures necessary to get that focus.

I have noticed in school, I have placed targets for every semester and in that semester there are targets for every week, people come as distractions themselves and options for others distractions, saying give room for more rest, more pleasure and relaxation with friends, and we have to go on visitation and other things out of my schedule. Few times I fell prey of the distractions but most times my targets kept me on course.

Determination has no limits; it keeps one on the move to achieve what my target is and my focus. Determination also brings in line what I am interested in together with determination brings lots of marvellous results. Having no limits has taught me to work towards perfection. Perfection has to do with my courage and understanding of what I have to do and how to go about it. Limit is like bondage over me, whenever I try to forge ahead towards my goal. My aim in life needs hard work in order to attain perfection.

Determination helps in overcoming any shortcomings; shortcoming (weakness) with the strength of determination will make me do my best not withstanding my weakness or shortcoming. This can be seen. The weakness may be body weakness or natural disease like diabetes, my determination to run or do any activity that the illness can hinder can be done with great zeal and desire once I am determined. That zeal might make me to emerge a winner in that activity.

Nature is something that can never be changed, no matter what. Nature is good and helpful in areas of knowing who we are and what we are suppose to do, but nature on the other hand can provide limitation for me. What I have to do knows whom I am and know what I want and where what I want will take me to or I will achieve.
Whenever I am in a cross road (dilemma) I have to consider what is right for me and how what is right or good for me will help me. We must make perfect decisions due to the advice I get from different groups of people, be it my parents, siblings, friends or lecturer sand the like.

I need to know my abilities by myself, people do not have to tell me what I can do or where I can go, knowing my abilities will and can take me to any desired place, but I have to show those abilities and not just sit down for miracles to show my abilities.

Whatever I have learnt or will learnt has to be passed on to people behind me, this will make my dreams and desires to grow and will never die even after my death.

2. Can you relate the ideas or concept in this book to your personal circumstances in life such as relationships, your beliefs, your goals, your values, e.t.c.

My daily interaction with people gives me challenges to improve on what I already have. I have always been challenged by the positive and negative reactions I do or hope to do. I have found out that criticism can only bring out the best in me if I work positively and try to correct the wrong that was committed.

In Church, school, or at home, when I start something I must make sure I continue despite the negative response till I cannot get my target, most times I see that those negative responses bring out the best in me, the result is instead of disgrace, I am praised.

This book has made me know that my interest in particular stuff will benefit not only myself but my environment also. These values are to be shared among everyone, I might be rewarded or not, but that is not the case. The case is to have an impact that is where value comes to play.

In area of belief, I have realised that my beliefs helps my achievements and my abilities. My understanding also limits my destination. If only I give to great understanding and open my mind to positive beliefs, I will eventually be stock up in apposition that has no room for improvements.

I should never keep what I know and beneficial to everyone within me, it might kill cause its like poison, but giving it out gives love, joy, long life and fulfillment of ones life.

3. What are the new most important new ideas you have leaned from this book. Please explain.

I have come to understand that knowing my abilities and working on them will make me a better person who will be promoted without limits. Even in the presence of my equals, I will be seen as a model everyone wants to follow, like when Jonathan was uplifted to a new environment, he found it easier to learn new things because of his previous practice, his eagerness to learn and understand things.

I should not expect to be taught all the time, the little I learn, I will pass it on, this will make me to do better in my position and my aims will be achieved. This was seen in Fletcher where he was a student of Jonathan and an instructor to the new group of students.

My environment might not provide a suitable for learning, understanding creates the good environment that brings out the best in me. Jonathan barely started how to fly when his parents discouraged him to be like others; he had a full day of practicing alone but joined the other gulls at evening.

I am me, trying to be someone else will just make me number two. I will do my best to be myself by achieving my dreams and not another person’s dream. Knowing myself will make me to do and understand a lot of things. Following boats and canoes by other gulls to get food was very hard for Jonathan, flying made him to get enough food for himself and not being dependent on the arrival of ships on the shore and on the sea.

On the part of parents and friends, I have learnt to be emphatically in my behaviour, try to be in someone’s position and helping the person in the little way I can instead of discovering him/her and looking at things from the wrong perspective.

4. Has this book challenged your thinking in anyway? If so, explain.

Knowing my abilities is one thing but another is doing my best in achieving those abilities and brings them to reality, this may take the aspect of practicing. A saying goes “practice makes perfect”. Heaven in this book is seen as perfection. So we can have our heaven I think it means reward, if we do our very best in what we realise through our abilities. Martin was a low- speed flyer but he could only prove it when he was able to put he practiced and in a short while, he was unimaginably the best low flyer bird.

I have been challenged by completing what I started, I will be laughed at as a dreamer without achievement but when I continue I will be respected and will stand before kings due to my resistance against all odds. A popular saying goes “quitters are losers while winners never quit”. Jonathan was willing to be an outcast if he could meet his dream as a great flyer and be able to make the other gulls to understand why flying is important to all gulls. Understanding came after his achievement. Huddles in life only make us stronger to meet harder ones ahead, and to make us stronger at the end.

Jonathan was able to learn because he had understanding and patience, he was able to endure hardships in training, had peace when he was doing well and improving on his pass performance, had love for those that made him an outcast and compassion made him to teach them what he had always wanted to.

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

No

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

I do not personally feel there are ideas that are less helpful in this book than the other. They new ideas have opened my eyes to new things the old ideas have been put in different ways suitable for application.

I have learnt to be loving in the area of teaching, patience and endurance when learning or practicing, and try to understand what I do or will do, this will bring perfect result.

I should not allow my emotions to control me and my decision making, but I should give opportunity for proper min d coordination.

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

The main idea in this book is knowing yourself and what you can give out.
Knowing oneself is knowing who I am, where I am from and what I am able to achieve. What I can give out on the other hand is how I can impact others in my environment.

Rating
A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. would you recommend it to others? 9.5
E. What is the overall rating you would give? 8

The New Dynamics Of Winning
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

Having the desire to win and the ego (drive) to go about winning. This tells me that everyone can have a dream or the ability and capability to win, but one cannot win if he or she still remains with his or her desire and not have to push forward to make his dream a reality. I have learnt that dreams in one's life is inevitable but reaching or achieving that goal or dream is the task to be faced to make it a reality, some people never get to realize their dream. In this way I will be transformed from a dreamer to a winner (achiever).

Fear, this is common to everyone but very harmful in goal getting, but how do I manage my fears towards achieving my goals? There is fear of failure and fear of success i.e seeing oneself as not able to attain a certain goal. I have found out that, if I put determination and commitment towards hard work, I will succeed but fear of failure renders me to fail no matter what. I have learnt to work towards the mark; I have placed myself no matter the obstacles and not to look back because I will be discouraged about going ahead.

There is also the fear of (low) self esteem, can I do this? What is my focus? I have always being a looser and taking the rear position in my class, then I can I go about the goal? Why can't the best students in class pursue the goal? These are questions from a mind suffering from inferiority complex. I have suffered from some of these questions, but I have learnt that everyone can be the best or be good if that person wants to. I should never look down at my capabilities.

Having a winning mind will make me strife at the highest peak without being discourage. I learnt in this literature that despite the health conditions of people in the book, they got their health back and went back to train without delay. I believe that it's because of their interest in what they were doing and want to achieve their goal that gave them quick recovery. The road to success might make me fall or discourage, but I should focus my mind and eyes on the goal I need to achieve with enthusiasm which will yield rest of mind.

Commitment has a price to be paid to succeed in a desired goal. Commitment has to do with time put in for practice daily, positive mindset towards winning, getting the necessary mechanism for success and the like. I got this scenario from childhood, in terms of learning how to ride bicycle, play football, in all forms of play, we might get injured or bash ourselves against the wall with the bicycle, but we get up to ride again to correct the mistake made earlier on and to show our friends we can do it. Commitment also made us play football in the rain despite the cough we might get after the days' football game. We went without food from morning to evening just to make sure we had a quality time with our friends playing, by creating lots of things like putting metals together and forming all kinds of puzzles, we sustained injuries, but we tried and persisted to perfect the job. This was really commitment. This price I have to pay to achieve my goal is commitment which also means to give my all; money, time, energy and the like to gain success.

I have learnt to see my pass experiences both good and bad as life's lessons and must be corrected or improved upon respectively. This is to help me meet the unexpected on my life's journey and to be able to succeed.

Recognizing my moment of truth is a (basis) lynch-pin to knowing what purpose or dream to work towards. This is the moment that I realize my dream or purpose to be achieved. This moment reveals the procedure of how to go about the dream or knowing the requirements needed for that task.

Knowing and looking towards the champion in me. The way I see myself is the way I will always act, seeing myself as champion will make me set my mind on winning, but if I don't, the reverse will be the case. No one is born a champion, only an individual can make him a champion in his/her are; academics as a student, fast runner as an athlete and a good instrumentalist, all these boils down to daily practice to make it part of the individual. When I was about to start an online piano lesson, I was asked my tutor to always practice so as to become part of me, this has helped me not to forget lots of things, although my school is far from home, when I come back, I am able to play as I played before I left and still intend to practice more to be an expert.

Having the passion to do something will make an individual to press on to achieving the target. I should not go into a career because I am attracted to the price, because as time goes on and more responsibility comes up, I will look for a higher paid job, but if I work for the passion of what I am doing, I will see the money as an addition to my success.

To be a leader, I have to obtain the attributes of one, try to put others before myself which is hard in all times and have a listening ear, try to drop some character and pick some in order to attain the leadership status, just for the sake of others (followers).

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.

Commitment a price I need to pay for success. In the school setting as a student, my main aim in school is to come out with good grades and how what I learned to pass it on to people around me and those I come in contact with. This price I need to pay for my above goals are reading, asking questions where necessary, research and discuss with others to be able to weigh myself (standard) and rationalise things on my own. This takes a lot of my time, have to be patient because some unplanned activities get along the way and also take control of situation that want to be over burdening.

This commitment has taught me to be hard working no matter what to achieve the goal set. Looking at my failures or hard times will make me loose focus and make me think that I will still meet hardship, so I should stop pressing on. So I should focus on my goal and not the curbs on the road to success so as to get the goal through committing myself to the task.

Planning or organisation is one thing that enhances success. Everyone has 24 hours to himself or herself daily, but some people make use of theirs and succeed, some people sleep away the time. The difference between the two personalities is planning and lack of it, planning and organisation keeps one on course in achieving goals properly.

In school, a session, academic year is divided into semester and every semester is divided into weeks and so on, and also has a goal to achieve during the semester both academic and otherwise. Lecture is one thing no reasonable person can miss, but what happens after lectures? Goal getting, this is also divided into segments, what is my goal and the strategies to use? An unorganised person is destabilized as scattered but an organised person will achieve his goals in and without stress in anyway.

In achieving goals, I have learnt to respect authority of the place I am at that particular time. At home, when I was learning how to play the piano, I had to choose the time that was convenient that none of my parents will need my help in anything. This was to have a perfect practice and in the same way not being disrespectful.

I have also learnt how to work with guidelines, learning piano, my tutor gave laws to be followed in learning the instrument, this I did and made sure I obeyed the rules. This made me to respect the authority and at the same time, I found learning easy and very enjoyable.

Being a good leader, qualities must be checked and corrected. Having an opportunity to be part of the executives at the departmental level, my character had to be reformed, I learnt to be more patient, have a “big” ear, and to say little but with lot of meaning, encourage people, think less of yourself and making sure things are made right. This position made be to respect higher authority more and be united so as to carry the goals of both bodies (school and department) along, and to try to achieve diverse interest. I have come to realise that change is the constant thing in life; change must be for progress and success but never for the worse or self interest.

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

Overcoming setbacks, stress, pains, discouragement. These are inevitable obstacles in goal getting, but these obstacles are just to slow one down, I have realised that facing problems and solving them in the first instance leads to will make one meet more challenges which is a sign of progress. This is due to one's striving force towards learning and practicing.

Commitment is one idea I cannot do without in goal getting. This is the price I need to pay for any success. I have learnt not to start something without committing myself to it because being committed to any task will make one to achieve the goal no matter what and to persevere to the end. Lack of commitment on other hand can lead to discouragement and low esteem, having the fear of not attaining peak performance. So to keep myself from the dangers of failures and falling into obstacles without paying the price; commitment, I will not bother going ahead to start such tasks.

The way or approach I look at myself towards achieving tasks is very important. I should be able to know “I can do” and what “I cannot do”. This helps to know oneself very well, knowing what he or she likes and dislikes, so that he or she will not be forced into pursuing a goal that the person is not interested in. This is a period of scaling and weighing a one's likes and dislikes and most of all, what the person is willing to give out, either in resources or energy as the case maybe. As a person, I cannot set an “unattainable goal”, but will set a high goal that I am willing to commit myself to.

Avoiding the unholy trinity; denial, rationalization and repression. These are capable of ruining a peak performance; this might (will) make an individual to place blames or faults on others for not able to attain the goal, giving excuses that things were “beyond control” and the ability not to be able to express one's feelings.

The truth is a long lasting phenomenon. It builds on a person's integrity and fame. In attaining my goals, I have learnt to always say the truth to others and acknowledging the realities in life so as to know how to confront them or how to go about doing things. This will make others around to trust me no matter what, and can also stand for me if anything goes wrong or when I am in need of a referee.

A good goal getter or leader has to tell the truth in all circumstance in his career pursuit, this will attract respect from other and might be a very good mentor to others.

Materialism is not real fame, so greed (the ever increasing desire to attain or acquire more at the detriment of others for oneself and not able to consume or use) should be put aside in attaining peak performance. I have learnt that greed can never be satisfied no matter the abundance a person has, so why the longing for things I might not be able to use. I will try to acquire what is important to me and leave what is not mine so as to be useful to the people in need of that stuff.

I should also have a heart of sharing or passing down potentials and opportunities to people around and are capable of performing well, that will build me up and be able to know the areas I need to make perfect and the people I am helping will improve themselves, than dying with the little or wealth of knowledge that will not influence anything and making a change in my environment.

Being an observer of those making it or succeeding in their endeavours is good if I am learning from the winners and applying it to my life, but if I am observing for pleasure, I will continue being one and not know what I am suppose to achieve. I should be part of the people making things to happen and be a winner of my own by knowing what I need to pursue, practicing and getting closer to the goal daily and learning to be patient and take things step by step and not rushing the goal achievement, but allow it to flow and attain the goal effectively and at the right time.

In peak performance, I should always aim at the best or highest position. This will keep me alert and be able to expect the unacceptable, to stand to all challenges and not to fall away from progressing towards goal getting.

Real success is having peace of mind towards what one is doing or has done. At this stage I must have actualized my dream or seen the reward of my hard work and the item my commitment was able to purchase.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in anyway?

This book has challenged my way of thinking as trying to join the circle of success rather than staying back to observe people progressing and I am just the one giving standing ovation and cheering people up, meanwhile my dreams are dying of no attainment.

I have also been challenged in this book to use my positive belief, religion, this will lead me to the right goal to achieve and how to my goals. By thanking God and asking for guidance, just like John Wood in the book “Making The Most Of One's self” by being true to myself, making each day my master piece, helping others in my own “little” way, reading good and healthy books for the mind, making friendship to be like fine art, building a shelter against a rainy day i.e planning before disaster, and most importantly, pray for guidance and give thanks for blessings everyday. The day I read this I was challenged and practiced some of the above guidelines; they inspired me to do more and I was very happy doing them.

I have being challenged to put my all to achieving a task i.e committing myself, this means committing my resources, energy, time and the like to see that goals and dreams come through.

Making a champion means obeying guidelines, laws, and rules, for every activity or participation, guidelines make success come faster and very effective and learning to respect my authority.

5. Are there ideas in this book that you totally disagree with?

I do not totally disagree with any idea in this book, but I have a strange feeling about the 21 day plan at the back of the book. I feel targets and goals are to be achieved step by step and daily, but the days we aim for our achievement might be short or long. What do I do if I am not able to achieve my goal at the speculated time? I feel every individual defer and the procedure for goal attainment are also different and there should not be a fixed time by another person to attain his or her own goal(s).

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

I found out how to achieve goals effectively through paying the real price to succeed: commitment; I should not mistake material things for fame or should not lie but be honest in all my pursuit so as to have integrity; honesty is also a criteria to achieving authentic goals, if goals are gotten through dubious mean, the meaning of success will be defeated because there will be no rest of mind as the result of hard work; it would be better I never put my hands to the plough than not to pay the price for success; respecting authority and the guidelines that are necessary for peak performance; to stop procrastinating the steps (creative relearning, practicing, e.t.c ) to achieving my desired goals.

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

The basis in achieving goals. This book is trying to convey a fundamental concepts in achieving goals, the procedures to take, what to expect and not to expect and to change one's mind set of how he or she feels about achieving his or her own goals.

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

Psyco-Cybernetics 2000
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

I should put my hands to start my desire or dream before I consider my inadequacy in such a dream, as in I cannot do it. If I refuse to start or to weigh my capabilities, I will give a chance for laziness, laxity, not been able to face challenges and also make me feel everything coming my way cannot be thrashed by my efforts. I have learned to face trials so as to improve on my weakness and to step forward in life.

I have come to realise that the picture I have in my mind about myself will surely exhibit outside and tells who I am (positive mind or negative as the case maybe).I have learnt not to put limitations for myself in achieving my goals i.e. thinking I can do a thing and cannot do the other, those are really fences put by my subconscious mind and I might never be able to scale through. Striving no matter what builds the man in me and to be able to face challenges, just like Thomas Edison who wanted to create light, he encountered a lot of mistakes and hard times, but he used those mistakes as strength to achieve his dream which we are all enjoying.

I need to give myself a period of time daily to always think of how to improve myself positively and how to organise myself better to have new ideas towards new goals, my job, leisure or relationship with my family and friends.

These limitations create the inferiority complex, it will make me not to be able to stand up to people and do my best, cause I feel there is nothing I can give out that will be good, so why can't other be this or that.

My mind is the seat of all activities, what I desire in my mind makes my body work towards it. For the aspect of change, I can change my bad attitude or bad behaviour if I have it in my mind that I can maintain such a new life may see myself as a success and be able to confront situations that I was unable to. I achieve that by making the move and reach the end of the road to success.

Another way I see I can make it or be a success is if I see things as been dependent on myself, by so doing I can go to any length (positive) to attain my goals with little or no help from my external environment.

I should be able to use my creative imagination to build positive concept of myself. In my scheme of progress or success towards my dream, I should be able to create things in my mind and create positive image in my mind than allowing people tell me who I am and my capabilities which will make me belief them and create a limit for myself. Positive thinking and creating images of success in my mind will make it easy for creating it physically.

Building my mind up in a relaxed mode will make me be more productive in good and positive ideas that will enhance success in all I do, be it studying as a student, business or social relationship with friends and loved ones.

Relaxation allows easy learning and rich creative imagination. I can use cool music or a very nice rhythm to make me relax or even sleep for a while to have a refreshed mind, and then I can happily go on with my activities. Making decisions or acting with a tensed mind creates nothing more than bad results so I have learnt to that relaxation is one of the prerequisite for success.

Tranquilizers are drug materials that should not be found with me in trying to achieve my goal. That is using an extra strength to make my dream come through, in other words I don't see myself as able to acquire anything with my own strength and determination. I have learnt in my little way not to depend on Nescafe to make me stay awake in order to read late night or work extra hours. If I rest well and plan my time, I will not need to over burden myself paying for loss time.

Having an independent mind helps one to be able for leave to fulfil his or her dreams and not another persons dream my not been dependent on what to do and how to go about it. I have learnt to plan my priorities, knowing what I enjoy doing and having the procedures to do it, cause doing things I don't put my mind or interest to ends up being a frustrated effort. I should never try to be someone because I am me. Having models is a nice thing, but never to be that person cause I can only be the number two of that person, so why can't be my number one?

Procrastination is an indication of failure. Procrastination is an attitude that needs to be cut off from an individual. This is seen as a basis of frustration, because when activities are piled up and must be done, it is not funny, this might lead to weakness of the body, illness, frustration and might lead to failure or not giving ones best towards something. I have learnt to take my activities step by step till I reach the climax, even the longest journey or mountain climbing starts with a step, it is necessary for goal getting.

Frustration is also a step to failure. Frustration only discourages and makes one to make wrong decisions. As written earlier on, frustration is a fruit of procrastination. The solution is to relax the mind and carefully start achieving desires step by step. At least is better some objectives are won than none. When I notice symptoms of frustration I should try to focus and make my priorities right.

My hard work is the key to my success, no matter what I believe in, if I don't apply my effort, success will be on the other side unable to be reached. I should try to remove the obstacles on my way to achieve my desired goal. Hard work is inevitable in a successful life. Even getting to the position of a leader needs hard work, a student has to read hard and understand before success goes his way.

Forgiveness has power in making me free to myself and releasing a lot of burden by getting things easier and faster. I have learnt to hold myself or my friends responsible for the mistakes committed, but allow by-gone to be by-gone but to strife not to experience such mistakes again by putting in more effort than before.

Releasing the real me and not hiding or pretending to be who I am not will not make me to achieve what I want to, in the first place I will not know what I want, nonetheless, how to go about it. Being who I am realising what I want.

Practice makes permanence in all sphere of life. Doing a particular thing over and over again will make that thing part of me. I have learnt to pay more attention to the areas that seem impossible to me and I will find out that, spending time with something makes one understand it more and how to go about it.

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, e.t.c?

One thing I must say about this book, “Psycho Cybernetics 2000” is that it covers all spheres of life which makes me to adapt to its rules and it has brought my mind to limelight that it is the most important part of man, because be it in my relationship with people, what I believe or my goals and values, if I do not make up my mind to do anything can be done.

When I do my best in what I find myself doing, and it's a success I will rejoice in it but if I fail, I will be sad. One thing comes into play; I sincerely did my best, but can do better next time. This can be seen when I was taking Philosophy as a course and saw it as a hindrance to success, the best I put in let me go with a pass although at a very discouraged stage, joy was the outcome.

Personal limitation is a concept that has worked in my life, for now in my academics like Maths and French language, I use to limit myself as I cannot know this cause people that have gone ahead complain about the same courses, so I am not different from them, the problem runs through every generation. I have learnt to break the walls of limitation so as to move on with other stages in life. Beliefs can make and unmake one just as the saying goes, right thinking right attitude. This has freed me from false beliefs.

Trying to use pass mistakes as a basis or a spring to my success. This can be seen in my relationship with my friends. When there is a great misunderstanding, the best thing to do its to take the humble part and be able to control the situation, next time the mistakes made by both parties will never be repeated so as to prevent the pass occurrence this helps to build relationship among loved ones and friends.

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

Moving from goal setting to goal getting. The decisions or struggles I will take to set goals, the nest step is how go about pursing the goal. I have to give myself a period of time to attain that goal, work towards it daily and relentlessly, focus on the goal and not the distractions and allow myself to go on in a gradual process. Goal getting is very important because that's the real thing and not goal setting; goal setting is a means to an end and not an end to itself. Some people have nice set goal but cannot go about it, it's a bad experience.

Fake it till I get it. I have learnt to assume the position of success so as to work towards my mark. If I desire a good job in future, I should put my mind to it and start equipping myself by receiving the appropriate training for such a job or career. If I want to be a pilot, I have to go to an Aviation institute, get the skills and the interest to attain the goal ahead but meanwhile, seeing the dream it's what enhances the process of learning.

An attitude best explains this because if one is trying to cut off smoking, he or she has to try not to smoke and restrict the body till the body adapts to it.

I should learn to respect other people's views on how they see things. This will make me look at myself first as capable to give out important idea and us other people's ideas to either improve mine, complement mine or even correct my view if its not placed on a right scale or judgement.

4. Has the book challenged or changed your thinking in anyway?

This book has really challenged some aspects of my thought. I use to think that ambitions and destinies just come into place not knowing hard work and practice is what takes to success.

I have been challenged to press on towards achieving my dream with all I have and with all I am, this leads to peak performance. In other words nothing good comes easy, that's why I need to fake prospects till I make it. If I hope to make an impact in my immediate community, I have to start with myself and letting people know the need to react to changes which will lead to a brighter future.

Forgiveness can help me and that person I am not at peace with. It is a step to success because I will not always look at someone as a hindrance to my success and will lighten my burden if at al I have one at that moment.

I should be courageous to reduce or stop wrong doings so as to create a good reputation for myself and also be an instrument of “check and balance” to my friends and loved ones and also to myself so as to act right.

5. What did you find most helpful and less helpful in this book?

Most ideas in this book are important to any individual life, be it morally, socially, spiritual and the like. Nevertheless, some are ideas I knew before but the ways the ideas were presented in the book brought more skill and how to apply them. In the long run, no idea is seen as least helpful because it's the combination of almost all or all ideas that create success.

I have been able to be sensitive to the stages or the “symptoms” of failure such as frustration and restlessness.

I have also learnt how to forgive to benefit the friend or person and me, thus although I knew before now in the religious sense, but has helped my present mind development a great deal in the social aspect.

Sharing ideas with friends and people of the same goal will make one more fortified and secured which will encourage one to move ahead in attaining goals. I use to think sharing ideas with friends or people of the same idea will create a negative part on my side, I have learnt that sharing builds one up and can be corrected if I am not following a right procedure.

Daily practice and creative relearning makes my goals to be permanent in my life. The constant rehearsing makes that thing be part of someone, and should always look for ways to improve and correct what I am doing and bring more methods of achieving the goal. This is a way to perfect success.

Most of all, my mind needs to be independent when it comes to goal setting and creative relearning. This will enhance the greater success of how I want to go about it, but can later discuss about it with others so as to improve on what I have already. This is because no one can see anything from the angle of what I see things, but might only pretend to understand and feel the way I feel, only if that person has gone through the path I am planning to take.

I should not allow myself to be inhibited by circumstances around me and feel I am unable to do what I intend to do, either it is too high to be attained or not, but to work towards the mark I have set.

Helping others or the needy people around me will make me happier and even lighten my burden. I have practiced that and indeed it reduced the burden of the person I helped and made my mood lighter.

Supremely, I have the power to change who I want to be, what I want to achieve and the way I want to think. This is by scrutinizing what comes onto my mind by what I watch the discussion I have with people and the company I keep.

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

The mind is the basis or centre for success and failure. Whatever the mind thinks of the person, that is what will be reflected in the person's character, the ability to achieve something or not.

Rate the following questions on a scale from 1-10

A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 9
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 9
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9

This institute has really increased by reading culture. I always use to feel lazy about reading more than a 150 paged book, but here I am reading more than 300 paged book and finish them within 3 months.

Success Through Positive Mental Attitude
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

There are two forces in life that can make or unmake m .They are Positive Mental Attitude and Negative Mental Attitude. Positive mental Attitude also known as PMA is to be worked with at all times and to be applied to my life s an invincible talisman for success and other ways ahead but Negative Mental Attitude also known as NMA is another invincible talisman responsible for all failures and other manners of pulling one down or make me lag behind even if I have the dreams or goals that I intend to achieve.

God is not to be blamed for any of my mishaps or absence of success in my life. Success depends on the talisman I work with. The burning desire to do or attain a particular height has to be developed. This is done by keeping in my mind what I want and will achieve and keep away from my mind what I don’t want and not of benefit to me. People are poor not because its fate or God‘s fault, they have never had the desire to grow higher than that situation.

I don’t have a disability physically or any malfunction in my mind, brain or entire body system, but I have learnt to use bad or negative situations to bring out the best results from them. I am working towards that and I know with PMA and great enthusiasm to achieve a lot, I will make it and have my fulfillment. Giving up is the beginning of failures, pressing on and enduring is the starting point of success, just as a popular parlance that says “tough times never last, but tough people do.”

The principles of Tom Dempsey that made him great is challenging and very important to me as n individual. One of principles that really attracted or caught my fancy is the man’s greatest power which lies in the power of prayer.” This means every good comes from God and is of God. So my dependency should be solely on God. This has made me to believe in God and prayer the more.

Another important ides that I have practiced and I am still applying to my life is the priceless gift of working and having a joyful character towards what I am doing. This is and will continue to enhance my interest in that particular job and I will have a growing desire of achieving a lot in what I am doing. I learnt to love people that come my way and to serve them. Whenever I do this I feel my life span increases and I can do more if I avail myself to doing it. This in turn brings success and fulfillment of the mind.

Having an inspirational dissatisfaction towards my goal will make me to have an eagerness to push further thinking I have not done enough but if I put in little effort, I will attain a great height and I should give myself the assurance of making it.

I should not allow my mental attitude to make me feel sorry for myself because I may not be able to achieve anything; this is because NMA has come into play, but if my best working together with PMA will bring a lot of success. Mistakes are things that we can hardly overcome but the most important thing about mistakes is correcting myself and forging ahead. That is what makes me great or successful.

The world should not be blamed for my failures; I am responsible for any mistakes or success. I have to check myself and see what is wrong with me and motivate myself. When I am right, my world will be right. I other words, I have the power of affecting my world and not my world affecting me and causing my failures as formerly believed. PMA is to be put to action and the problems of the work will bow before me. Since I have the same opportunity to come into the world, I have more opportunities of being a champion.

I have to be definite in what I want to achieve to put me on course if not I might be working towards nothing. From this book, I have come to believe that whatever the mind can conceive and believe that will be achieved with PMA.

I have also learnt a very important idea is helping me In my undertakings. This is the first principal idea of Positive Mental Attitude: God is always a good God. This has helped me to always put my circumstances in the hands of God and know it must come out with a good result. This has also made me believe in God all the more and put God at the zenith point in my life as a consultant, friend, leader and teacher.

Sex is one thing that youths of my age say they find it hard to resist at their teenage years and youthful stage. I have learnt to do the right thing at the right time. Although frankly, I am still on the road in conquering that totally, it has come to my knowledge that right things at the wrong time can be harmful like poison. I have placed it in my heart to make sex a virtue and fight against it with PMA and with God’s help I will overcome.

PMA is just like faith, putting my hands to do what looks impossible to man but can be achieved with God’s help. Just a little work and full dependency on God will make impossibility to be possibility. Faith according to the Bible says “Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:ⁿ.

The thing I read and profess becomes part of me. When I repeat a certain behavior, that becomes a habit and ends up as a character that will bring destiny. I have the power to create any habit I wish to, if only I us self starter and profess in order to make a good destiny and character.

I have come to realize that whenever there is a problem, there is a solution. What I need to do is just to earnestly search for answer and I will get it.

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, e.t.c.

No doubt, this book covers my personal activities all round, be it educational, spiritual, moral, political, and social and lots more.

In the educative part of the book, I have learnt to put my very best in my studies as my sole business for now, because all the people that have gone ahead of me with good grades, worked hard and whenever they failed, they sort for the correction and did it because they knew exactly what they wanted to achieve. A quotation goes in this line. It says, “Nothing good comes easy.” I have to put both my conscious mind and subconscious mind to work so as to remember things at a later date.

I have also added to my educational life that some courses may look difficult or tough but if I confront a particular course with boldness and PMA and also study hard, that course will turn to be among the easiest for me. Things that seem tough are nothing but springs to make me with PMA but can also unmake m with NMA.

In my spiritual life which is the centre-piece or the basis of all other spheres of my life and has challenged me to put my whole trust in God and to rely on him in all situations. Just like the saying in this book “God is always a good God”, this has also made me to put God first in all what I do and always ask for divine guidance in steps I intend to take. This I can do by praying to God which is the sure way to talk to the creator of the Universe and He will answer if I ask correctly with all humility. There is power in prayer and I have been challenged to pray without ceasing.

Inspirational books help people like me and those around to be better people in goal setting and goal getting. I have come to realize that the most highly placed inspirational book gets the source from the Bible. This has also boosted my craving for the Bible to get the real stuff and apply it in my life in everyway. From people’s experiences in this book, they became better achievers with the help of the Bible. This is a confirmation that the word of God is alive and true to save humanity from all forms of darkness and depression and to give light and life to those that are in darkness against success.

Morally, socially and Politically, I have learnt to be joyful in what I find myself doing. I my work and relationship with others, I have to put a level of trust and commitment to the people I work with and to the work I am faced with.

An important thing that I have learnt is to the help of those in need without expecting anything back in return, whatever I hope to be will be. From this book, lots of people that were successful gave a portion of their wealth to the poor and those in nee and they never lacked. This has challenged me to help people all the more and have a caring heart. This will in turn come back to me in many folds through God’s blessings. From a part of the Bible it talks about someone casting his or her bread upon the waters and at the time of need it will come back t such a person. So it is with success.

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

One of the new concepts I found in this book is the sources of motivational books; the Bible and motivational books are just breaking the ideas and concepts to make it clearer. As mentioned earlier on, it has made my belief in God and his words to grow stronger and how possible it is to stop the bad doings so as to please God and work with Him in everyway. And also to make God to be the Master of my life. Knowing man’s greatest power or weapon, which is payer really motivates me to pray more so as not to be powerless.

To be straight to the point or being definite. This is he beginning of goal setting which will bring to limelight the procedures to make in order to get the goal. Being definite with people reduced confusion and I get what I need or like to achieve my intentions need to be spelt out clearly and correctly.

The things I read and profess become my life and destiny. I should be very selective and disciplined in the things I read or watch and what I profess because these things make me who I will be and behave or exhibit. So the decision is mine either to be good or to be other wise with the activities I partake in, because it’s a gradual process which I might not even notice.

The short cut to riches is something I have picked and will be helpful to me. This is the use of the principles of PMA that will not violate the laws of God or be harmful to my fellow men in my actions.

In succeeding, I need to know the rules and understand how to apply the rules of success. I have learnt how to engage in constructive thinking, studying, learning and planning time with regularity.

The principles in achieving according to Dr.Cureton’s systems are to train the whole body and push myself to the limit of elasticity.

For PMA to work it depends in a good level, so overworking myself am not resting will endanger me all the more and may not be able to achieve what I want. Rest will motivate me all the more, time planning comes into play as an important factor and PMA will work very well.

The difference among people is just their attitude towards things and what I want to achieve (either positive or negative attitude). The need to put up positive attitude in achieving goals is 100 percent to make it perfect. I need that and I will get it.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in any way?

This book has challenged my life and I intend to go through it again and again till I am able to utilize every lesson or concept in it.

When I have a problem, I have come to understand that I ask for divine guidance, think well, and know the actual problem, to analyze it and using the adversity for my own positive benefit.

Change is one thing that is permanent in life. In situations that come my way, I have to be flexible in meeting demands in the right manner and applying it well. Knowing the basis of success which is PMA with the help of God. I have changed my mind to accepting it and abiding in it.

Guilt can make people to go the extra mile in achieving their goals. It’s a feeling in someone that makes him/her to be dissatisfied of his/her attitude of what he or she is doing or have done. I have learnt to go ahead and do lots more with dissatisfaction with PMA so as to get rid of guilt and put my very best in what I am doing; this is an aiding factor just to get things done at the right time and properly.

The principles of Tom Dempsey that made him great has given me cause to rethink and realize the greatness that comes alive by developing a burning desire in achieving high goals; success is attained only by those that do not give up, practice makes permanence if I put in more effort and work harder, it will lead to desired dreams and success. I can use bad situations to motivate myself of being an achiever, and the most important to me is realization of the man’s greatest power which lies in the power of prayer.

With PMA I have to train my mind to interpret what I see. I sometimes fail to allow my brain to filter what I see and interpret what I see in my environment my mind is sometimes blind to my surrounding which enables me not to see anything beyond my eyes . I have learnt to be both nearsighted and farsighted. This is because the two are very important and should be applied simultaneously. Far sight looks at how to achieve my goals by starting step by step instead of fantasying and ‘building castles in the air’.

Looking at the ideas with fresh (new) eyes to see opportunities that lie around me, looking into the future for opportunities that are there to know the value to me to take me higher.

I have also learnt to see other people’s view point , abilities and capabilities so as to forge ahead to improve ourselves my elf having in mind that no one can ever be an island on himself or herself an no one is an epitome of knowledge. So when I share ideas with others and respect their point of view I gain more and get more ideas from others.

Asking self questions and others is of great essence on order to understand the things and phenomena that needs to be gotten cleared on. It may lead to great discoveries just like that of Isaac Newton, Dr. Plunket and the like. Asking self questions is related to being dissatisfied with a particular idea.

I have also learnt to use what I learnt earlier on from all spheres of life. Action is very important in getting things done (do it now). I have started using the pieces of advice I get daily can build me to be a better person in achieving my aims and objectives.

Mixing business and pleasure is a concept of making great profit. Doing things that are fun to me and applying it to my work will make the work easier and be able to accomplish a lot. Pleasure here stands as the motivating factor to continue the work not depending solely in the money but the commitment to my work.

The way I talk to people may either encourage or discourage them to work or give in the best they have. This is seen in the case of Thomas Edison’s mother, she believed her child had great abilities and able to give his best out despite the report she heard from his class teacher. Thomas Edison’s mother gave Thomas his confidence that he required to be a world inventor. I now believe that no one is dull but everyone is able and capable to do something meaningful and to achieve a desired goal.

I can be an encouraging figure with the words I say and what I write. Writing especially motivates lots of people. With this challenge, I will be either emailing my friends time to time, sending them text, just to make sure I try to encourage them at the time of need.

I have been challenged that God is interested in all my affairs if I just ask for help, desperate the need I encounter, I should call on him and He is always there to answer. One thing I should not forget is always give thanks to God for what He has done daily.

Using Other People’s Money also known as OPM is an idea that I hope to use in a particular project I hope to execute. There are some achievements that someone hopes to achieve and there is no money. The next option is to use OPM and having in mind to pay back at a specific time.

To use OPM to achieve a particular dream, I have been challenged by this book to be very honest, have a good reputation and have good integrity. These are characters that are all intertwined or knitted together. A good plan and OPM creates a large fortune, we can all see that even in life of Bill Gates.

Life and opportunities in life goes in a cycle, when I fail the first time, I should equip myself for success and the next time I get that opportunity I should get hold of it and correct pass mistakes and do the right thing with the help of PMA I will get it.
Finally, the quotation that gives me great challenge is “Anything in life worth having is worth working for”.

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

No

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

The things that I really found helpful and will carry me through life is the seventeen success principles, the principles that Tom Dempsey applied to his life and the knowledge that the origin of motivation is from the Bible.

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

The book is trying to convey how best I can use my invincible talisman-PMA to attain a lofty height of success without violating God’s rules and the rights of my fellow men.

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 content? 10
C) How easy was it to understand? 9
D) Would you recommend it to others? 10
E) What is the overall rating you would give it? 9.5

Keys To Success
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1) What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

Being definite in my purpose or goal is always the starting point in any journey to success or achievement. The definite purpose I have is what will create a burning desire, enthusiasm, passion to reach out and pursue the goal I need to, with all my strength, resources (money and human) and the like. Defining my purpose has a lot of advantages, such as to keep me focused, be self reliant, have or create personal initiative, imagination, self discipline, enthusiasm, concentrated efforts and the like. Others are specialization, budgeting time and money, alertness to opportunity, cooperation, application of faith and having success consciousness.

Making up my mind is a major purpose in life and the power of decision and choice is in me, this is also connected to definite purpose in life, this will create room for utmost performance and direction.

On the road to success or achieving goals, there are always curbs or obstacles that tend to push one off the way such as discouragement, things not working out too well, and the like. Faith is needed and applied so as to allow the mind to still recognize what it’s aiming for and able to overcome the power of discouragement and stress and apply faith with positive mental attitude which will make me correct the power of impressions and move forward. The consciousness to succeed will also make me to do what is very appropriate and get back in line despite all odds and obstacles.

Having a good plan is of great essence, but keeping it in mind will or may not make any difference. I need to share it with interested people around so as to keep that plan alive and make it a reality. Because in this world of ours, some people bring the plan, some execute them and others correct and give it a good finishing and will lead to success.

This will make anyone to look very useful to one another, because we need each other to make the best of ideas, trying what looks impossible, going the extra mile and lots more. The collective thoughts and efforts f like minded people results to lots of intangible power which is wealth.

Having a mastermind alliance as summarized above is of great essence. This is necessary for effectiveness and comprises of interested people, having the same mind set, education and knowing their functions and do not need to be told extensively. The ingredients that keep this alliance are trust in one another, understanding each others productive point of view, respecting each other and the manner and ability to work. I should learn to depend on my team for specialized knowledge. The mastermind alliance harmonizes its members and brings understanding.

I should learn to have a prayer style of thanksgiving and gratitude and I will get results much faster than I constantly request. Requesting may give room to doubts and unrealistic prayer but thanksgiving makes me see the plan in action and to affirm my desires in prayer morning and night.

Nature is something no one can change or amend. I have learnt to accept nature the way it comes without fear of things like death, rain, sleep and the like. But they should not discourage me from giving my best in what I find myself doing and achieve some goals in life.

In this world, there are drifters and doers. Drifters are not willing to sacrifice their time and money in anything they do and do not have a definite goal to achieve. But doers are always on track to achieve their definite goal and using their time and money wisely in attaining lofty heights.

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, e.t.c.?

In my general life there are things I hope to achieve and the basic things are the concepts of success. This book has brought more light or insight on how to apply the ideas or concept of success.

In my general life, there are things I hope to achieve and the basic things are the concepts of success in those more light in the way concepts and ideas of success are to be applied. And I have started adhering to them. In a man’s life, goals are set time after time so as to grow to high heights, but there are also steps to be taken. May my mind and character imbibe these key rules so as to attain the desired height. This book also covers the widest range of thoughts in my mind and in all my activities. It covers my spiritual, social, and political and has also increased my level of economic prospects. It has developed my spirit, mind and body.

In the spiritual aspect, faith was talked about and how to apply the faith. Faith according to this book and how far I have practiced it, allows my mind not to recognize any boundaries or restrictions in achieving goals. Applied faith works with Positive Mental Attitude which also makes me not to be afraid of set backs on the way but to use those set backs to forge ahead and be able to take the distractions or hardships behind of me to attain success.

This book has also put my mind in believing in prayer as the key thing to succeed and continue to lean on God as my all in all. I have learnt to put my burden or load on God and also believe in receiving answers. This has been working for me a lot of times, although sometimes I feel depressed in what I was doing, but God was and is always there to remove of disappointment. I have also learnt to thank God in my entire situation because I know He is in charge and capable of handling my affairs, so why should I disturb myself? I just do what I can do and put the rest in God’s hands.

Socially, I have learnt to work with people more and how to share my aims and objectives. Before now, I had a problem of expressing myself especially in goal getting because I thought people may not subscribe to it. I found out that this mastermind alliance brings higher success and achievement with ease. Other people in my mastermind alliance build on my ideas help out in achieving it to a great extent and I see myself doing little or nothing times with a good result. It has also helped me to be able to interact and to know the extent of help other people need and I can assist.

The idea of attractive personality works, but in some cases it works too much and one acquires a lot of friends that can overwhelm an individual. It is also good because it makes a lot of people to thrust me and build a strong circle of friends.

Politically, I have learnt to be very patient with people so as to achieve what we as a group are working for. I have also learnt to eliminate self interest in any thing I am doing especially if I am a leader in the alliance or member of the group. I have to give up my personal gains and work for the good of a large number of people. This will enable the members of the alliance to go extra miles and always like to participate in what they will benefit from. Personally, I have also seen the benefit of going the extra mile, I feel very accomplished if I do what I have to do without been told, although in some case my group members may not like to help out because of some restraints.

In my economic life and how to increase my prospects in life, I have realized that a creative personal initiative goes a long way to achieve success. It is a way of positioning my mind to succeed and to know the necessary steps to take and also to have a particular purpose and a good motive. This has also taught me to create something out of nothing, by this; I can help people, myself and my environment. This may also bring financial gains.

I have also learnt to give out of my wealth to charity and those that need love; this will enable more of the wealth to flow in and also to attain success.

Self- discipline has taught me that no matter how I try or believe in anything, I have to discipline myself and cut some bad habits away, bring new ones that are helpful and how best to balance my mind so as to attain success.

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

Due to the dynamics of the mind and the large area it covers, the mind will continue to bring out new and important ideas that will enable me to be able to take charge and use it to my benefit and how to help others around.

A very important idea is the positive mental attitude. This application of PMA leads to success and the neglect of PMA and the application of Negative Mental Attitude lead to failure and make one not to have a burning desire to achieve anything or to move from a particular position to the other. PMA is of great essence to succeed.

My influence or my character can help build someone or destiny one. I can use my way of life or what I say or what I write to encourage others and give them a reason to live and the purpose to achieve.

I have come to realize that my life does not wholly belong to me because of my influence on others and it belongs to God. So I should use it for good of others and it belongs to God. So I should use it for good of others and the edification of the name of God. This can be done by accepting people the way they are, open my heart to be able to tolerate them, correct them where necessary, love them cause it the finest medication for my soul and body.

The concept of thinking accurately is of great essence and has opened my mind to have correct and have a productive thinking. The success or achievement of any organization like Global Leadership Institute was as a result of accurate thinking of some people with the intention to raise leader’s world wide. Thank God for that, though accurate thinking can come my way depending on what I always focus my mind towards and will create a beneficial experience with remarkable success.

Another new and important idea is to eliminate the habit of being credulous, which believes without having little evidence; it is a rival to accurate think because it leads to wrong results. Disbelieving anything that is not understandable. Accurate thinking helps to understand new ideas or unusual facts, not keep me from examining them.

In defeat, seeds of success are to be attained and appreciated for success driven ideas, never count losses, project the future success. Defeat has helped me to strengthen my will power and challenge my effort and see it as resistance. Defeat double chance of being an access.

Cosmic habit force is to serve me and not for me to serve it, taking control and subjugating things under my control and awakening my consciousness to take in what is good and acceptance to the environment and is right.

4) Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in anyway?

This book has challenged my thinking to success. This has helped me to be able to stand firm in the purpose I hope to achieve, to apply strictly the keys to success and use them with PMA.

This book has challenged me in all spheres of life and has shaped me to be able to forge ahead in all I do.

To be a little bit specific, this book has improved my thinking on being accurate and has enlarged my scope of thinking so as to attain whatever my mind can conceive even if it looks unattainable. How best I can apply faith into my life and depend totally on God by doing my part of the activities and leaving the rest to God. I have also imbibed in my mind to continue to give thanks to God in anticipation in what I want, it is faster gotten that way than always asking which might lead to little faith or doubt as the case maybe.

I have also been challenged to control my thought with the power of cosmic habit force and don’t allow myself to act any how by my unconscious mind.

Have been challenged never to be a drifter but be a doer. This is attained due to the time I spend in my work and the level of money I am able to sacrifice so as to attain lofty heights.

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

One of the ideas I found most helpful was building up the master mind alliance. This made me to be very careful in selecting my team to attain a particular goal, I found out that people about to be selected for the work had like minds and the people were more than the number required. The team is doing well and even pulling me to a high level of achievement. A curb in this alliance is finance but we are using the power of OPM (Other Peoples Money) to tackle the curb and I am optimistic about solving the problem. The idea of not being credulous might not sound important to other people, but to me, I have realized that some people bring up false sayings and the lie to deceive others. I have started acting strictly on a reasonable degree of evidence laid before me and should be genuine before I agree or make such stories as true.

Going the extra mile helps me and the people around me both in our relationship and respect. It also builds me towards doing great things without anyone asking me, this way sometimes bring great reward.

If I share my love with people around me, it is like a healing to my body and soul and love will saturate the environment and give room to understanding and good health.

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

This book reveals essential principles of personal achievement and how, when, and where to apply them so as to make them effective and help bring success to reality.

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

Real Magic
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1. What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

I have realized there are no accidents in this life: all the activities either good or bad that happen have purpose and they are directives to sharpen or mold me. The bad experiences that occur helps someone to be able to avoid the same happenings again in future and also help to build myself up and learn to withstand hardships. Some of the benefits that come with hard times are; suffering a times make me to be stronger, I have learnt to stop asking “why me”, but to learn good lessons from the occurrences that come my way.

Having a purpose is what describes a person's life and gives such a person directions to follow and the guidelines to take. The occurrence of real magic comes as a result of having a purpose to work for. For message of my life is what I give, serve, how to show love and live in harmony, and there will be a great difference in my life and I should learn to reduce the habit of receiving all the time. My life without a purpose will be stagnant.

In order to experience the real magic in me, I should always be willing to learn and be a student with a receptive state of mind, because my teacher can come in any form at any time.

Another important idea is also to have the ability to control my thought. Having the power allows me to have total control of my actions. I have learnt never to be a product of uncontrolled mind but be able to control my thoughts.

In order to forge ahead, I have learnt to overcome my weaknesses by leaving them behind me and grow beyond them. This has created more opportunity for growth and miracles and allows my mind to think of ways to move ahead.

The world of real magic requires me to go beyond my rational mind and to enter the world of spirituality. To be a spiritual being, my mind has to know no bound and to attain spiritual experience. The thought of man is the only true reality and helps in creating opportunities to becoming my own miracle worker. The state of spirituality has given me the opportunity to touch my enviable self and know that it is the secret of my ultimate ability to create miracle. The great men that ever lived used their spiritual nature to manifest their physical attributes through their wonderful outcomes with their ideas. The world of spirituality looks inward for potentials, also sees people at being connected with ideas, and helps in meditation and controlling behavior.

Intention creates my reality. My intention is the energy of my soul which comes into contact with my reality. Anything I have in mind, I try to pursue, be it relationship, business, e.t.c and also make me aware of my spiritual nature. To change myself is to change my intentions. Being in charge of my intentions also makes me to be in charge of my world and be able to get what I want. This has helped me to push harder towards the mark of success.

I have also learnt to study the paradoxes. What I hate I tend to always do them because it makes me feel complete and what I want to do, I do not do them because I feel it hard to achieve. The truth is that I am complete without anything I should learn to be focused and control my habits and attitude.

Meditation is an act of solving problems within me before I put it to practice it. I have read about it and I have practiced it and it is working for me. Even in cases of uncertainties and doubts, meditation is the key to solving problems.

Rejoice in the prosperity of others: this will erode jealousy and sadness and can bring prosperity to me. Always see people's success as yours and look forward to achieving mine or to have higher heights and I will succeed. The Bible also tells me to rejoice with those that are rejoicing and morn wit those that are mourning. This helps to feel each others happiness and sadness and also to create awareness to resolve any hitches needed.

To have good health, I have to watch the things I eat, drink and have to exercise to keep in shape, reduce the intake of junk food and never get addicted to alcohol, cigarettes or narcotic drugs to keep me moving but to simply work on my natural energy to achieve what I want, this will help me develop an enduring spirit.

To change the world, positive changes must first occur in the minds and in the attitude of people before anything can happen in the world; this is because situations have to be settled in the spirit before it is settled in the physical. The purpose to achieve or to change in our world is improving the habit of giving, serving and loving, and then a changed world will come to being.

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, e.t.c.

This book covers to a large extent, the generality of an individual and my life is not left out. This book has touched my spiritual, physical, environmental, health, relationship and my world at large.

My spiritual aspect of life is said to be the basis of all activities. Whatever happens in the physical owes its source from my spirituality, either knowingly or not. The world of real magic occurs in the dimension of spirituality. My spiritual life has being able to touch the invisible me and to work towards success. The spiritual me has helped me in meditation, in solving my problems, has helped me to forge ahead and learnt to leave my mistakes and struggles behind me for great success. I have been able to look inward for potentials to grow and to connect with people that have good and positive intentions.

My health is determined by my actions. Having a good health is having a sound mind. Before now, I use to think junk food is good for the body, but I now know that I have to give up all that and select rich and balanced diet, so as to have a balanced health. This act of been selective in the kind of food has enabled me not to be a patient in a hospital.

In my relationship wit people, I have allowed love to be the basis of our relationship. And I should not look for what I do not like to see in a friend, but concentrate on the things I will like to see and appreciate in a friend. This will strengthen the bond of friendship and will create better chances of understanding. I should not always be expectant but to be able to give out in all I do. Doing my part well and not seeing it as stress will make me do more and make the other party or parties to do their best.

In the world at large, changing it requires service, love and giving so as to transform the hearts and minds of people and giving them a look to the world that it's not full of hatred, despise, wrong doings or separateness, we all need each other to grow, be it white or black.

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

The concept of nothingness; this concept has to do with the ability to know nothing or to feel empty towards a particular idea or towards everything. This behavior or act creates new ideas or approaches to succeed and even having a better intention to achieve anything. to provide miracles for me I also need to go beyond my five senses and try to experience new ideas, have wide thought, and meditate wide too and ideas will flow beyond my imagination. This has worked for me after I put it into practice.

Study the paradoxes: I can never be satisfied with the things I want. What I hate the most, I always long for and what I like, I hardly get. This is to say I am complete with who I am, I do not need anything to make me whole, be it money, alcohol, e.t.c. I should reduce my level of hatred for a particular habit or attitude but love some; this will enable me to continue to do what I love to do.

I cannot create prosperity if I believe in lack. If I believe in the attitude of acquiring and always looking for more, I will never be satisfied but to always long for more things and elongate the list of wants but knowing my needs and trying to achieve them can lead to success. I can not get prosperity through a job or work I do not have pleasure in, just because I want to pay my bills or take care of some things financially, but allow myself to flow well without serious struggles. In any organization I am working in, the primary purpose should be service, and gains and success will overwhelm me.

The power of Alpha meditation and physical practice. To attain good health, no matter how bad some one's state or position is the power of alpha meditation and physical practice with affirmation can make one whole again. It may take a long time or a short time, as the case maybe. Any healing whatsoever starts from an individual's mind. In me, I have realized the power to be healthy till I die naturally. The words of doctors is based on their knowledge and researches but my and knowledge and research is bound to change and improvement, I can create my own good health trough my beliefs and meditation. I also have to check what I take in and learn to say no to the food that can curse bodily harm.

4. Has this book challenged or changed your thoughts in any way?

This book has challenged me to use any situation I pass through as a learning process. I should face hardship or stress with PMA and see what I can achieve from it instead of always asking “why me”. This is because the experience of life are to guide me or mold me towards what I will face in future, and I should not always hang on to bad experiences, but let go of them and live beyond it. Let the days be days of enlightenment and not days of setbacks.

I have also been challenged not to wait to be given something, but I should be the giver because there is greater reward in giving than in receiving and will make me not to always be anxious to receive and to make it to be the basis of our relationship.

I should have a humble spirit and always willing to learn from a teacher, because I might not know when and in which form my teacher will come to make me achieve my miracle.

I have been challenged to allow my spirituality to dominate my affairs, this is because I will have no boundary, feel connected with people around the world, be focused, see my potentials, be guided by meditation and lots more. My spiritual being has a lot of effect on my physical things have to take place in the spiritual before it takes place in the physical.

I have also been challenged by the concept of nothingness so as to create new ideas. I should behave or pretend I am empty and be in a state of absolute dependence on God and my spirituality for new ideas, and they will come, they have been coming and will never stop coming.

I have also been challenged not to treat people harshly by using my size, money or influence to subjugate or try to control others, but to treat people with respect according to good conscience and human feelings, to interact with people soul to soul will lead to companionship, healthy relationship and will lead to achievement.

Never struggle to change or try to solve a problem without meditation, because meditation is an act of solving a problem in the mind before it is executed with great ease.

Real magic is available in everyday life, my miracle is watching me and having things to work right is waiting to be reached out for, my state of mind determines the above and all my transactions, relationships, e.t.c. it is left for me to think according to peaceful and faithful relationship with loved ones. Give out love in the midst of hatred (although it is difficult), misunderstanding, and it will give a positive result.

I have been greatly challenged that in a relationship I should not always watch out for things I do not want to see or experience because I will love to see and appreciate the outcome.

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

I can not get prosperity through a job or career I do just to have finance to pay my bills and have no pleasure in it, this is spiritual punishment. The essence of being able to flow in my career will bring out a lot of positive achievement, I have to create a primary purpose in life is service in all I do. I should learn to flow and give my best in my area of interest and it will lead to fulfillment.

Mind set is the basic ingredient for any miracle or magic. Whatever is in my mind that I want to achieve, I have to follow the necessary steps and belief in good result. I will reach my mark. Positive mind set is of essence too.

Our world needs change or reformation, and the power of spirituality which connects people around the globe can change the world and it is in the process of change. And can be achieved by a little group of people. Some issues that have been mitigated on world stage are racism, terrorism, fraud and the like through the help of agencies around the world known as non state actors.

Never disregard my intuition, I should develop a mindset towards obeying my inner voice so as to receive guidance and it's also a way of receiving from the Lord. With this, I can receive instant instructions and perform them and will definitely lead to fulfillment.

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

To achieve what will make me happy and creating steps to achieving them. Anything can work for me if I put my mind to it and make use of my miracle.

RATINGS
A) How interesting was it to read? 7.5
B) How helpful were the content? 8
C) How easy was it to understand? 8
D) Would you recommend it to others to read? 8
E) What is the overall rating you will give it? 8

What To Say When You Talk To Yourself
Assessment by Jeremiah Jibro (Nigeria)

1) What ideas were personally most important to you in this book?

All I am or what I hope to be is all in me and I can be anything I want to be with a good sense of direction of my thoughts and making my priorities right. The power of my thought can make me build my world.

I have come to realize why inspirational speeches do not really last long or become automatically permanent. This is because I overlook a lot of things such as knowing how the brain functions especially in achieving goals. The way it functions is how I treat it by inputting the right or the wrong ideas; the brain is like a servant of my mind by manifesting what the mind feeds it with.

My day to day conversation, interactions and attitude with people around me has either a negative or positive effect. It depends on me to either accept or decline the statements of people about me. Its better I filter or weigh the gravity about what is said towards me before I take it into my mind because it tends to create programs in my mind (dangerous or helpful). Whatever I think of always or put in mind to do, will always make me manifest such attitude is better and profitable to think of success rather than failure. The brain works according to what I tell it most and it will create just like an obedient servant, be it in my career, health or personal relationship.
Self programming with the help of Positive Mental Attitude will lead to success but with negative mental attitude, failure will appear. Self programming positions my mind and brain on how to work and how to go about doing things right. For good speech to work or motivations to work, I need to reinforce it always in order to correct my ways or maintain a particular attitude. its just like reading for exams, I cannot succeed if I go through my text books and note books once, I need to go over them again and again to retain the points and some explanations.

The missing ingredients I found out that makes motivation not to have a long lasting effect are permanence, having knowledge of physiological processes of the human brain and word-for-word set of directions.

Permanence is an ingredient that keeps reminding an individual to remain on track of success and persevere no matter what to reach the mark of success and also to practicalize what one was taught.

Knowing how the physiological processes of the human brain by believing success requires the strict adherence of rules that runs the brain and knows very well how it works.

Having a word-for-word set of directions helps an individual to be able to erase and replace any form of negative programming by having a direct control of my subconscious mind.

Self talk is what binds the three missing ingredients together and the ingredients forms glue that holds the keys to success that makes it permanent in an individual.
I have found out in this book that the motivation that lasts long is that one that comes from within, it will be permanent, but external motivation just carries an individual to a particular stage and needs to be re-enforced again. Any idea that is from within lasts long such as self help, self talk, self encouragement, e.t.c. .As a leader or member of a team, for an external motivation to work, it requires using good incentives without force, oppression, harsh talks, e.t.c but encouragement and the need to work together will bring out the best of that team.

To attain loft heights with any self improving concept, it has to be simple so that it will be put into practice without much stress or hardship.

Personal responsibility is the basis of an individual’s action and measures the level of accountability of a person and also reveals the determination of a person has to fulfill his/her obligation. To be responsible is very essential so as to live for myself, think for myself and work for myself because no one can ever do that for me for a long time, but i should take full charge of my business. What bring out the best in an individual is his spirit, conviction and hard work.

There are some things in life that we might not like to do, but i have to do them no matter what. What can help me to put things in order is to use situational self talk so as to adjust situations and how I see them and try to enjoy what I am expected to do and does it well with great zeal. This will make me happier with what I am doing and will create the best in me in that job, career or any other responsibility.  I can like wise determine the kind of day I want to have either good or bad day through out - I just need to take charge.

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, e.t.c?

The concepts of this book have made me to live life the way I want it to achieve what I want to and to fail where I want to. Every thing depends on me as an individual. Nevertheless, as an individual grows speeches, attitudes and characteristics of his /her environment shapes the person’s way of thinking or programming as the book states. This forms directly or indirectly the attitude or the programming of the individual. It is left for him/her to choose the good things from people and drop the wrong ones so as to have the right programming for achievement. Having a good attitude is gotten through self talk, self determination and the internal motivation to change.

In my relationships with my friends and loved ones, I have considered the relationship to be a nice one and never to look for offences so as to have hitches in the relationship. In my work with my co-workers or team mates, I have learnt to use incentives and appreciative speeches to motivate them to give out their best in what they are suppose to, and encourage them to see the need to do what they are doing properly because internal motivation will be best so as to take them for a very long time.

An important idea just as the one above revealed the secret of long working ideas or motivations which has to do with permanence in an individual's life, knowing how the brain works in the area of data collection and using and the emphasis on the use of words so as to direct individuals mind to success.

I have realized that in success, attaining such heights can look unattainable but a step to start the journey makes it easy. What ever I have to put into consideration to achieve it has to be simple if not, there might be stumbling blocks or an individual might relent in the pursuit of his/her goal.

On a general note, if I want anything done, either personal or in the society, I have to program myself positively towards attaining that, if it is not working, I have to start again to make it effective. And for anything to work for me as in my motivations, I have to go over the tips over and over again so as to make it permanent in my mind, brain, spirit and soul.

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

Understanding the inner workings of the brain I now know that my brain accepts information and put it into practice. When my mind always feeds my brain with certain ideas, my brain will surely work towards achieving such an objective or will create the necessary step to bring it to a reality.

Thanks to the power of re-enforcement which leads to permanence and perfection and success. For an individual to be able to change his/her attitude, concepts and ideas have to be enforced so as to make it permanent in one's life.

I have also learnt to filter what I learn and see in my environment so as to be able to get good results; this is because they have adverse effect on an individual. it is better to take in what can reproduce good character than a bad one. I should also have a view about life and try to be a little but flexible when need be so as to keep me on track on who I am.

In my attitude, I should never pass down my bad attitude that I do not want to see in my younger ones such as shouting unnecessarily, discouragement of all sort, e.t.c., because such bad character can pass to younger generations and we see it as something that can not be changed, but to discipline myself and try to give words of encouragement.

I have also learnt that there is always a chain reaction in what I feel or think. My programming goes a long way to determine my behaviors. I have to be in control of my with self talk so as to get good actions. Programming affects beliefs; belief affects our attitude, attitude affect feelings, and feelings bursts into actions. I have to be in total control of my emotions, because they direct my actions either positively or negatively. The reason of self talk is responsibility, it’s a way of meeting a need or finding solutions to some work and positioning my mind to tackle a particular problem and responsibility is the essence of life.

For an individual to attain peak performance, he/she needs to be convinced, must be hard working and to have the spirit to carry on with the work.

4) Has this book challenged or changed your thinking in anyway?

This book has challenged me to know myself better; it has led me to examine myself from my mind to my actions. I have also learnt the workings of the brain and know what I should feed my brain with because their will be result at a later date.

This book has also made me to have permanent success or retain it in my everyday life through the power of re-enforcement. The attitude or habits I need to change have to be re-enforced all the time and taking the prerequisite steps to stop such an attitude.

In working with a team, it is wise to achieve good results by giving good incentives to boost the output of my members. Trying to judge or reconfirm an individual programming (bad especially) will only make matters worse, so I should try build people instead of destroying them.

I have to be careful with the ideas I belief in because it produces what i say and will lead me to give more likely a wrong image of myself. I have to take responsibility of my actions, choices and not depending on another individual, but to handle things my own way.

In an individual's life, there situations that come our ways that we never intended for ourselves, but i should try and get the best of every opportunity by putting into practice the situational self talk so as to position myself towards success.
The ingredients of a good and workable self talk are: putting positive words in present tense, being specific, getting the job done without any grumbl