Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.