October 26

Here are five simple and workable rules for overcoming inadequacy attitudes and for learning to believe in yourself:

1. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture as fact. Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image.
2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your ability comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
3. Do not build obstacles in your imagination. Depreciate every so-called obstacle. Minimize them. Difficulties must be studied and efficiently dealt with, but they must be seen only for what they are. They must not be inflated by fear thoughts.
4. Do not be awestruck by other people or try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
5. Ten times a day repeat these words: "If God be for me, who can be against me?" (See Romans 8:31).