SUCCESS IS RELATED TO HOW ONE THINKS

Knowing how much I read, a friend recently gave me a copy of a small book, How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell, the New York Times bestselling author and expert on effective leadership who trains leaders of diverse organizations around the world.  The book’s tagline is “Change your thinking.  Change your life.”

Maxwell writes of eleven essentials for thinking like a success, including such concepts as focused thinking, creative thinking, realistic thinking, strategic thinking, shared thinking, and so on.  I highly recommend the book as a quick read full of ideas and ways one can learn to think like a successful person thinks.  Published in 2009 by Center Street, a division of Hatchette Book Group, New York, NY, it is available in many book stores or can be ordered online.

The last chapter of the book includes several quotations worth sharing:

            Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Life consists of what a man (person) is thinking about all day long.”  James Allen said, “You are today where your thoughts have brought you.  You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”  And Paul the Apostle said, “Whatever things are true…, noble…, just…, pure…, lovely… are of good report.  If there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy; think on these things.”