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A thought by Zig Ziglar (2003-01-01) from his book, Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters (p. 94). B&H Publishing. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) So what does he mean by that? Zig says, “Sir Walter Raleigh attended a prestigious boarding school when he was a youngster. He was an excellent student and wanted to be number one in his class. However, one lad always finished ahead of him, so he determined to discover the secret. Each night when he prepared for bed, he looked across the grounds that separated his room from that of his competitor and noticed that his candle was still burning. One night he noticed that the other boy studied only about fifteen minutes longer than he did. After that, Sir Walter Raleigh studied an extra twenty minutes every night. At the end of the year he was the number one student.” He then says, “I've often wondered how many students miss out on a college scholarship because they did not study an addit

A thought by Zig Ziglar (2003-01-01) from his book, Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters (p. 59). B&H Publishing. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I know that can be a bad thing to do sometimes but it also can be a good thing. Zig tells us, “In the late 1940s when Dwight Eisenhower was president of Columbia University, one of the problems he faced was that students ignored sidewalks and trampled the grass. Ignoring the many ‘Keep Off the Grass’ signs, the students continued to take whatever route they found convenient as they hurried from one class to another. As a result, footpaths were worn along these routes. Many of the college officials wavered between anger, frustration, and genuine concern for the appearance of the campus. Eisenhower did not get to be the allied commander in chief during the war, and later President of the United States, without his ability to see things from both sides. He came up with a simple, sensible, workab

A thought by Zig Ziglar (2003-01-01) from his book, Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters (p. 49). B&H Publishing. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) So many people think they are failures.   And they live acting like it. Do you feel that way?   But Zig says, “Failure is an event.   It is not a person.” He goes on, “If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't sweat it. You're not stuck there. You can grow. You can change. Just remember that you are what you are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”   You can do that.   I know you can. He goes on, “Psychologist Shad Helmstetter summed up much of what I'm saying with this statement: ‘You can't change from a negative mind-set to a positive mind-set without changing from negative talking to positive talking. To do that, you must change the input from