Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia

Course: Personal Growth & DevelopmentLecturer: Prof. Kol Pheng

Prepared by Group 2 Class: Morning (T-TH)

Napoleon Hill’s KEYS TO POSSITIVE THINKING

Ms. Sok Arunwattey(leader) Mr. Van Modavin Ms. Sokhom Romanea Mr. Or lineth Ms. Oum Ratha Ms. Chea Sotheary Mr. Ros Pangha

Group Members2

Step 1:Take Possession of your own mind with conviction

Take Possession of your own mind with conviction

Possession: : something that you own or that you are carrying with you at any time

Mind: thinking, emotion, feeling, and understanding

Conviction: a strong opinion or belief be the owner of your mind, thinking,

emotion, feeling and act with strong belief.

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Each person has a brain and a nervous system. They have inherited the power to achieve in principle anything in life.

Your passion, emotions,

instincts, tendencies,

feeling, moods, attitude,

and habits are all yours

to direct.

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W. Clement Stone’s observation: You are a mind with a body. You can control your thoughts, control your emotions, and ordain your destiny.

William James’s conviction: We become what we think about most of the time.

MPA’s quotients: You have unlimited mental capacities, but it is up to you to use this power of your mind to think positively, so that they all work to your advantage.

Take Possession of your own mind with conviction

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Say these will help you believe: I believe my mind is my own I believe I can take possession of my own

mind I believe I can direct and control my

emotions, moods, feelings, intellect, tendencies, attitude, passions, and habits with the intention of developing a positive mental attitude.

I will develop a positive mental attitude.

Learn by doingTake Possession of your own mind with conviction

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Your passion, emotions, instincts, tendencies, feeling, moods, attitude, and habits are all yours. You, yourself have power to control it.

Let control it positively.

Conclusion

My mind is my own

I will control it!

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Step 2: Keep Your Mind on the Things You Want and off the Things You Don’t Want

Introduction

Once you take possession of your own mind, you have to keep control of it, the best way is to keep it focused on the things you want and off the things you don’t want.

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Keep Your Mind on the Thing You Want and off the Thing You

don’t Want Keep you mind focused on the

things you want to achieve or stand for in life.

Use your brain for controlled optimistic thinking.

Take possession of your mind and direct it to images of your choosing. Do not let circumstances or people dictate negative visual images.

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Conclusion

You must learn, therefore, to discipline your thoughts and visualize the things you want, the wholesome characteristics you wish to acquire. You have the power to direct your thoughts, control your emotions, and thus ordain your destiny.

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Step 3:LIVE THE GOLDEN RULE

Present by Group 2

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What’s the golden rule?

‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’

Introduction

It means that you treat other people as the way you wanted to be treated.

Living the Golden Rule

- Living the golden rule means you must stand up for others, be their guardian, protector, and advocate.

- Look for the good in everyone and in every circumstance and be a good-finder, but not a fault-finder.

- If you bring happiness to someone , it will return to you many times if you do it not for your own sake.

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Share a portion of what you have. In sharing with others, you give away a portion of your self, but that which remains with you multiples and grows.

Living the Golden Rule (cont.)

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When you share with others a part of what you have, that which remains multiplies and grows.

give a smile to everyone you meet. give a kind word with a kindly thought behind the word. give appreciation- warmth from the heart. give honor, credit, and applause, the victor’s wreath. give time for a worthy cause with eagerness. give hope-the magic ingredient for success. give happiness- a most treasured state of mind.

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Give cheer-the verbal sunshine

Give a pleasant response – the neutralizer of irritants.

Living the Golden Rule (cont.)

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Conclusion

Treat other people as the way you wish to be treated

The more you help and give happiness to other people, the more you receive back from them.

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Step 5:Be happy! Make others happy

Be happy! Make Other Happy!!

o To be happy in our lives and make other people happy is when we think and act positively.

o Positive thinking is a mental attitude in which you expect good and favorable results.

o In other words, positive thinking is the process of creating thoughts that create and transform energy into reality.

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Positive Thinking is make our lives success.

Establish every day goal and

“You can’t change the past…., but you can ruin present buy worrying about the future”

Be happy! Make Other Happy!!

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There are10 steps to be happy

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1. Savor Everyday Moments“showed significant increases in happiness and reductions in depression,” says psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky.

2. Avoid Comparisons“Comparing ourselves with others can

be damaging to happiness and self-esteem”, Lyubomirsky.

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3. Put Money Low on the List “People who put money high on their priority list are more at risk for depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem”, Tim Kasser and Richard Ryan.

4. Have Meaningful Goals

“As humans, we actually require a sense of meaning to thrive.” Harvard’s resident Pro. Tal Ben-Shahar.

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5. Take Initiative at Work

6. Make Friends, Treasure Family

“Happier people tend to have good families, friends, and supportive relationships,” Diener and Biswas-Diener

How happy you are at work depends in part on how much initiative you take.

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7. Smile Even You don’t feel like it.

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8. Say Thank You Like You Mean It

Pretend to listen or care about someone’s speech.

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9. Get out and Exercise

10. Give It Away, Give It Away Now!

Make altruism and giving part of your life, and be purposeful about it: Researcher Stephen

Post

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Conclusion

Be happy! Make others happy! is when we eliminate the negative thought and keep our mind on good, wholesome, constructive thoughts, memories and experiences.

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References

http://www.yesmagazine.org http://www.webmd.com http://www.acupuncture-and-chin

ese-medicine.com

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Step 6:FORM A HABIT OF TOLERANCEkeep open-mind toward people.

Introduction

- Tolerance: respect what other people believe in what they want

- Form a Habit of Tolerance: try to like and accept people for who they are, but not demand them as you want them to be

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Form a Habit of Tolerance

Try to learn from someone else and share in the benefits of contagious enthusiasm

Everyday do a good deed. Don’t let intolerant ideas absorbed

from other people limit your own ideas of what you can achieve

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Words from the Wise

“Do all the good you can

By all the means you can

In all the places you can

At all the times you can

To all the people you can

As long as you ever can.”- John Wesley

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Conclusion

- Accept other people for what they are and try to look for the good in others and learn to like them.

- Everyday do a good deed. There’s no point to be mean which cause other people to get angry with negative result

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Step 7:Give yourself positive suggestions

Give yourself positive suggestions

The conscious mind is the quality or state of self-awareness of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It is It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind….

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Give yourself positive suggestions

The subconscious mind is a composite of everything one sees, hears and any information the mind collects that it cannot otherwise consciously process to make meaningful sense.

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Give Yourself Positive Suggestions

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Suggestion

• Any stimulus sent through your brain through your five senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell- is a form of suggestion.

• All of these are pathways by which external elements influence you every day of your life.

• Everything you come in contact with is recorded in your subconscious mind by your five senses.

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Self-Suggestion• Self-Suggestion is the process of purposely

and deliberately offering stimuli to yourself in

the form of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or

smelling.

• Use metal pictures or thoughts as a from of

self-suggestion.

• Under “suggestion,” you were warned to see

to it that what enters your five senses is

wholesome and gratifying.

• Look for the good in whatever you see or hear

or taste or smell or feel.

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Auto-Suggestion

Auto-suggestion is the transmission and

communication of information stored in the

subconscious mind back to your conscious mind.

This information to you in the form of ideas,

dreams, feelings, concepts, principles, solutions,

and thoughts.

When you deliberately feed your mind with good,

wholesome thoughts and information, and keep

yourself in the proper frame of mind, you are

supplying the subconscious with nourishing

material to feel back to you.

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“If you treat a person as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” __ Johann Goethe

“My philosophy is that only you are responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” __Oprah Winfrey

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Step 8:Use Your Power of Prayer

“Whatsoever we beg of god, let us also work for it.” – Jeremy Scott

Introduction

What is prayer? Prayer is our relationship to God, pure and simple. Prayer is not a science that must be mastered in order to be effective Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

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What is the power of prayer? The power of prayer is first felt inside of us The power of prayer is real and palpable. You can feel it and know it and depend on it. The power of prayer is the constant renewal of perspective.

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Use Your Power Of Prayer Use your power of prayer is the power that comes to us when we realize that God can be our point of reference in the midst of all the confusions of our daily lives, the steadfastness of God rather than the incomplete, fragile inconstancies of ourselves

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Use Your Power Of Prayer(cont.)

In every storm that either frowns or falls, what an asylum has a soul in prayer.

Use your power of Prayer is the last choice that we decide to do after we have no choice with science.

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Conclusion

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God. It can bring our life go to the right way in daily lives.

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Step 9: Set Goals“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

Introduction

Setting goals is one way to keep your mind on the things you want, and off the things you don’t want.

What is Goal?Goal is the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.

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The starting point for achieving goals D - Determine E - Evaluate S - Set I - Identify R - Repeat E - Each day

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Conclusion Setting goals is one way to keep your

mind on the thing you want. D-E-S-I-R-E is the method you can

use to set and achieve any goals you choose.

Each and every day read your written statement aloud and visualize yourself in possession of your objective, see it. Feel it. Believe it.

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Step 10:Study, Think, and Plan Daily

“You will never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” – William Blake

Introduction

Each day you need to spend some time for yourself. This time, which Napoleon Hill called “study, think and plan daily time”, is crucial to continuous self-improvement and development.

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The Formula EACH DAY you spend private time with

yourself at least fifteen to twenty minutes that you: Think about your goals… with PMA. Inspect your attitudes… with PMA. Inspect your actions and your

thinking… with PMA. Read inspirational, self-help action

material, if it is only a paragraph or a page… with PMA.

Take time to study, to think, and to plan… with PMA.

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LEARN BY DOING Study, Think, and Plan Daily Get yourself ready for a future

lifetime of PMA excitement. Determine what principles can

be applied to you. Select an environment Have a notepad and pencil or

pen handy.

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Conclusion

Find the best time of day for you to set aside for your studying, thinking, and planning. You can set a goal for yourself and attain it by changing only one thing about your life, your attitude to everyone and everything that you encounter for the better.

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