When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.