Now it’s time to take a close look at how you think. As the greatest and wisest teachers have always taught, improving the quality of your thoughts improves your life almost immediately: The Bible quotes King Solomon: ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he be.’ The Buddhist text, The Dhammapada, states: ‘We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.’ The Greek philosopher Socrates said, ‘To find yourself, think for yourself.’When you think like a confident person, you automatically feel more confident and act more confidently.
Positive thinkers are the happiest and most successful. Sometimes all it takes to change your life forever is a single thought! Humans are not robots: you can intentionally choose how to think, and if you are serious about building your confidence you must start changing your thinking patterns without delay. The next few sections explain how.
“'Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be anyaction, and when there is correct thought, rightaction will follow.’ Henry George ”
“We live ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must firstenlarge your thoughts of it and yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere.' Orison Swett Marden ”
Image consultant Marcia Grad spells out the importance of changing your thinking patterns with crystal clarity in her book, Charisma: How to Get that Special Magic . ‘As long as you keep thinking as you’ve been thinking, you’ll keep feeling as you’ve been feeling, doing as you’ve been doing, and getting what you’ve been getting.’