1	The Psychology of Winning
Mike McConnell
10 November1995

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	Believe in Yourself
	A Peaceful Mind Generates Power
	How to Have Constant Energy
	Try Prayer Power
	How to Create Your Own Happiness
	Stop Fuming and Fretting
	Expect the Best and Get It
	I Don't Believe in Defeat
	How to Break the Worry Habit
	Power to Solve Personal Problems
	How to Use Faith in Healing
	When Vitality Sags, Try This Health Formula
	Inflow of New Thoughts Can Remake You
	Relax for Easy Power
	How to Get People to Like You
	Prescription for Heartache
	How to Draw upon That Higher Power

3	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-awareness
	Schedule a comprehensive annual physical.
	Be more curious about everything in your world.
	Break the daily and weekly routine you have set.
	Make a list of "I Am's - Two columns. Assets or "I Am Good At" in one column. Liabilities or "I Need Improvement In" in the other column.
	Look at yourself through other people's eyes.
	Look at yourself through your own eyes objectively.
	Take 30 precious minutes each day for you alone.
	Look for truth and speak the trnth. Don't let the ads and the fads make you one of the countless victims of greed.
	Be aware of the children and the elderly.
	Be empathic.

4 	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-esteem
	Dress and look your best at all times regardless of pressure from your friends and peers.
	Volunteer you own name first in every telephone call and whenever you met someone new.
	Take inventory of your good reasons for self-esteem today.
	Respond with a simple., courteous thank you" when anyone pays you a compliment for any reason.

	Sit up front in the most prominent rows when you attend meetings, lectures and conferences.
	Walk more erectly and authoritatively in public with a relaxed but more rapid pace.
	Set your own internal standards rather than comparing yourself to others.
	Use encouragement, affirmative language when you talk to yourself and to others about yourself.
	Keep a self-development plan ongoing at all times
	SMILE!

5	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-control
	Take the blame and the credit for your position in life honestly and openly.
	Use the volition of "I've decided to", in place of the compulsion "I have to". Use "I'm more comfortable doing this", in place of "I'm afraid to do that".
	Carry the affirmative motto: "My rewards in life - will reflect my service and contribution", with you in every daily transaction.
	Learn how to relax mentally and physically.
	Set a specific time frame each week, preferably each day, to initiate action letters and action calls in your own behalf.
	Action TNT - Action Today Not Tomorrow"
	Sit down and create your own best horoscope on paper.
	For the next 30 days, go all out in your current job
	Invest in your own knowledge and skill development.
	Set your alarm a half-hour early tomorrow and leave it at the earlier setting.

6	Take Action To day for More Positive Self-motivation
	Replace the word "can't" with "can" in your daily vocabulary. Can applies to about 95 per cent of the challenges you encounter.
	Replace the word "try" with "will" in your daily vocabulary.
	Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
	Make a list of five of your most important current wants or desires, and right next to each   put down what the benefit or payoff is to you when you achieve it.
	Seek and talk in person this week to someone who currently is doing what you want to do most, and doing it well.
	For every one of your goals make it a habit to repeat again and again, "I want to - I can", "I want to - I can".
	Paint the picture of what the achievement looks like and feels like.
	Don't take counsel from your fears and don't worry about them.
	Give solution-oriented feedback when people telJ you their problems.

	Concentrate all your energy and intensity, without distraction, on the successful completion of your current project. Finish what you start.

7 	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-expectancy
	Use positive self-talk morning to bedtime.
	Find something good in all of your personal relationships and accentuate the blessings or lessons in even the most trying confrontations.
	Look at problems as opportunities - make a list of your most pressing.
	Learn to stay relaxed arid Friendly no matter how much tension you're under.
	Think well of your health.
	In projecting your own healthy condition to others, realize that your daily conversation is the automatic readout of your thoughts and subconscious emotions.
	In dealing with children, in addition to ensuring proper health and medical treatment, focus the child's attention toward the reward or benefit of being well.
	Expect the best from others, too!
	The best way to remain optimistic is to associate with Winners and optimists.
	Wake up happy. Optimism and pessimism are learned behavioral attitudes.

8	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-image
	Go for a walk on the beach or in the country or park and recall your childhood play.
	Set aside 20 to 30 minutes a day, whether commuting to and from your place of business, at lunch, or in the morning or evening.
	Read a biography this month - each month - the life story of someone who has reached the top in your profession.
	While you relax, visualize your own imagined triumphs.
	lf you spend time around young children, become a story teller.
	Limit vour television viewing to stimulating, special shows.
	Take a deep relaxation, meditation, auto-suggestion, or biofeedback training program.
	Develop the habit of listening to educational and inspirational cassette tapes while you are driving and before retiring in the evening.
	Write a two-page resume of your professional and personal assets as if you were going to apply For the job of a lifetime.
	Since the self-image is the visual, conceptual display of self-esteem, take stock this weekend of those images with which you display yourself: clothes, auto, home, garage, closet, dresser drawers, desk, photos, lawn, garden, etc.

9	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-direction
	What are your lifetime goals? What do you stand for, what do you want your children to tell their children about you? Jot down a one-page brief.
	What are your priority goals in groups of years. For the next five years write one major goal in each of the eight following areas:
career, physical, family, personal attitude, financial, public service, educational, and entertainment.
	List your top priority goals for next year using the same eight categories as above.
	Use a large desk-top calendar and set your time priority goals for next month.
	Use a pocket week-at-a-glance type calendar and set activities for next week.
	Use an 8'/~ by 11" lined folio pad and set the most important goals of all - your daily goals for tomorrow.
	Make special effort to sit down and draft your financial game plan which will fuel your personal growth.
	For each of your goals, assemble support material, news articles, books, tapes, pictures cut out of magazines, consumer reports, cost estimates, color swatches, samples, etc..
Review your goals with Winners.
For best results in goal achieving use these basic rules:
	 Set short-range goals (day, week, month, six-months)
	 Set lower-level goals (relatively easy to accomplish)
	 Set incremental goals (little by little, part of the big objective)
 	Get group reinforcement (regularly consult a support group interested in the same achievement)
	 Ceremonialize the achievement (certificate, reward, dinner, trip, recreation, new clothing, etc.)

10	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-discipline
	Make an appointment to visit one of the following during the next thirty days - a military aviation flight simulator, an airline pilot training simulator or a computer simulation game or training facility at a university.
	Purchase and listen to audio cassette tapes on the art of visualization and simulation.
	Make a list of five necessary but unpleasant tasks you have been putting off. Put a completion date after each task. Start and finish each task.
	When you simulate and visualize your goals, visualize the exact achievement or the specifics as if they had already been accomplished.
	As a daily exercise, you should rehearse every important goal achievement simulation over and over in your imagination.
	After every important performance in your life, whether it's closing a sale, speaking in front of a group, communicating with employees, playing a sport, or dealing with loved ones – you should control your 

self-talk to elevate your best self-image of a winning performance.
	The best times to simulate goals are free, relaxed times - those few early minutes, upon awakening in the morning each day.
	Be relentless and persistent in your rehearsing of your goal achievements.
	Discipline your body to relax and relieve stress by engaging in some form of "ball-playing" as a routine.
	Discipline your body to improve your cardiovascular system by jogging or walking at least three times per week.

11	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-dimension
		Ask yourself the questions, how do I fit into my family.
	Treat people more like brother and sisters.
	Pay value to your spouse or loved one today.
	Tonight kiss a child goodnight with an added You are special and I love you for who you are.
	Tell a parent or relative in person or by phone how much he or she means to you today.
	Spend time listening to and giving encouragement to an elder each week.
	Make a contribution to something or someone for which there is no direct payoff or obligation.
	This Saturday do something you have wanted to do for years.
	Experiment with five or six hours sleep per night while being kind to your body with good nutrition and exercise.
	Learn one or two additional languages and study the custom and mores of countries you plan to visit.

12 	Take Action Today for More Positive Self-projection
	Project Positive Self-awareness. Observe the wonder and abundance in nature. Sop feeling sorry for yourself.
	Project Positive Self-esteem. Get that deep down feeling of your own worth and pass it along to others.
	Project Positive Self-control. Project an image of responsibility by making your own luck through preparation and affirmative action
	Project Positive Self-motivation. Motivate yourself and others by focusing on the rewards of success, forgetting the penalties of failure.
	Project Positive Self-expectancy. Your enthusiasm will be wonderfully contagious and infect almost everyone it touches.
	Project a Positive Self-image. Project your creative imagination and always present a positive preview of your coming attractions with vivid descriptions.
	Project Positive Self-direction. Put your goals down on paper and share them with those who can help you achieve them.
	Project Positive Self-discipline. Talk to yourself over and over again when you are relaxed, visualizing yourself in the act of enjoying and completing each of your current goals. Complete the project you begin.
	Project Positive Self-dimension. Project yourself as a Winner who creates other Winners too.
	Project Positive Self-projection. Don't just read The Psychology of Winning as another book. Go out and do it!