Eight Rules for Positive Thinking

(from: Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, M.D.)

1. I will be as cheerful as possible.


2. I will try to feel and act a little more friendly toward other people.


3. I am going to be a little less critical and a little more tolerant of other people, their faults, failings and mistakes. I will place the best possible interpretation upon their actions.


4. Insofar as possible, I am going to act as if success were inevitable, and I already am the sort of personality I want to be. I will practice "acting like" and "feeling like" this new personality.


5. I will not let my own opinion color facts in a pessimistic or negative way.


6. I will smile more often.


7. Regardless of what happens, I will react as calmly and as intelligently as possible.


8. I will ignore completely and close my mind to all those pessimistic and negative "facts" which I can do nothing to change.