The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gXZu1i8TM 1. We live today in a golden age with abundant opportunities 2. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal 3. 95% of people forfeit success for conformity 4. Instead of competing, all we have to do is create 6. They both work hard 7. We become what we think about 8. Believe and succeed 9. Everything worthwhile in life came to us free 10. We must be willing to pay the price 11. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them The Challenge: #1 Set yourself a definite goal. Write on a card what it is that you want more than anything else. On the other side, write the words “Ask and It Shall Be Given You. Seek and You Shall Find. Knock and It Shall Be Opened Unto You.” #2 Quit running yourself down #3 Stop thinking about all the reasons why you can’t be successful. Instead think of all the reasons why you can. #4 Trace your attitudes back through your childhood. Try to discover where you first got the idea that you can’t be successful if that’s the way you’ve been thinking. #5 Change the image you have of yourself by writing down a description of the person you would like to be. #6 Act the part of the successful person you would like to become