(From Poverty To Power- JAMES ALLEN) Do you wish for kindness? Be kind.Do you ask for the truth? Be true. <ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Just denying the evil is not the solution. You must find out why it is there, and what lesson it has for you.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">What you are, so is your world.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">By your own thoughts, you make or mar your life, your world, your universe.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every soul attracts its own, and nothing can possibly come to it that does not belong to it.</li></ol>

The World, A Reflex Of Mental States

(From poverty To Power)<ol><li>Orderly advancement in knowledge can ensure prosperity or peace.</li><li>Building yourself up in faith and knowledge can make you worthy of better surroundings.</li><li>Before you can have that greater good which you desire, you must faithfully utilize that which you already possess.</li><li>It is useless to desire more time if you are already wasting the little time you have.</li><li>Shake off the delusion that you are being injured or oppressed by another and try to realize that you are only really injured by what is within you.</li><li>Self-pity is just the practice of degrading, debasing, and soul-destroying.</li></ol>

The Way Out Of Undesirable Conditions

A Book for all those who are in search of better conditions, wider freedom, and increased usefulness. - James Allen

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Books

James Allen is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. James Allen has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. James Allen's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

James Allen

From Poverty to Power

"If you keep your ego aside even a little bit you can actually see peoples' efforts, and you can appreciate them wholeheartedly."

Understanding People🤍

by PAULO COELHO<ol><li>The archer cannot always choose the battlefield, so start training and be prepared for unfavorable situations.</li><li>‌we should never judge people without first learning to hear and respect them.</li><li>‌the difficult thing is not to learn something rather it is to practice it every day until you achieve the necessary precision.</li><li>‌A master is not someone who teaches something but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover the knowledge he already has in his soul.</li></ol>

INTRO - THE ARCHER

<ol><li>The person who does not share the joy, enthusiasm with others will never know his qualities and defects.</li><li>Find allies who are, not necessarily kind of dazzling people. but who are not afraid of making mistakes, who don't sit and wait, who act.</li><li>While choosing companions to share enthusiasm with trust your intuition.</li><li>Have water-like qualities: flowing around rocks, adapting to the course of the river, sometimes forming into a lake, and continuing on its way, because the water never forgets that the sea is its destiny and sooner or later it must be reached.</li></ol>

ALLIES 

<ul><li>Bow: Life; the source of all energy</li><li>Arrow: Intention, Action</li><li>Target: Objective to be reached</li></ul>The concept of bow, arrow, and target implies not only in archery but in our normal life as well. The bow refers to the course of life. In our life, we take many actions and form millions of intentions to hit the target just like in archery, the archer draws the bow string and aims at the target with an arrow.

BOW-ARROW-TARGET

The bow has no conscience; it is the archer’s hand and desires that drive the bow. Your life, as well, doesn’t have itself pre-designed your thoughts and desires will design the shape of your life.

The arrow is what unites the strength of the bow and hits the center of the target. Once the arrow is gone, it will not come back. In life as well, if the intention is not clear, straight, balanced, or precise it’s better to hold, reform, and then act. But never hold back from firing the arrow just because you’re afraid of making mistakes. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you’ll learn how to improve your aim next time and what changes you need to make.

Arrow

Never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you. You are the one who chose the target (smaller or larger) and you are responsible for it. You must understand and regard your target with respect and dignity. With negative intention, you may as well hit the target, but you will not improve anything inside of yourself. Concentrate on the target but also consider other factors, because the arrow, when it is shot, will encounter factors you failed to take into account, like wind, weight, and distance.

Target

(The Archer) In archery, the archer’s posture should be in the state of serenity and elegance necessary to learn how to shoot. Elegance is not the most comfortable posture, but is the best posture if the shot is to be perfect. Elegance is simplicity and concentration; the simpler the more sober, the more beautiful. When you are in the right state of mind, calm; you can do your best. Simplicity is the key to everlasting beauty. The snow is lovely because it has only one color, the sea is lovely because it appears to be completely flat, but both sea and snow are deep and know their own qualities.

POSTURE

(The Archer) <ol><li>The arrow is the intention that leaves the archer’s hand and sets off toward the target.</li><li>The arrow follows the path chosen for it when it was released by the archer.</li><li>To hold an arrow is to be in touch with your ]own intention.</li><li>A man’s intention should be perfect, straight, sharp, firm, precise.</li><li>Ensure that your arrow has not been bent or damaged by previous shot.</li><li>In it’s simplicity and lightness, the arrow can appear fragile, but it can carry the energy of archer’s body and mind a long way.</li></ol>

How To Hold The Arrow

In this book, the story revolves around archery but it has the life lessons that every person who wants to grow and master things should know.

From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the practical lessons imparted along the way. Includes stunning illustrations by Christoph Niemann. “A novelist who writes in a universal language.” —The New York Times In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfill, that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build courage, and embrace the unexpected journey fate has to offer. With the wisdom, generosity, simplicity, and grace that have made him an international best seller, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, purpose, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference.

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then.

Paulo Coelho

The Archer

When we are happy, we look more beautiful.

Why our beauty differs!

Be good at YOUR THINGNot at EVERYTHING

🤎

We get jealous because we are insecure ourselves.

Why we get jealous?

(The Magic of Thinking Big)<ol><li>When you believe I-can-do-it, the how-to-do-it develops.</li><li>When the mind doubts it attracts reasons to support disbelief.</li><li>Learn from the leader. Observe him. Study him. But don’t worship him.</li><li>Others see in us what we see in ourselves.</li><li>Self-development is something that nobody can do for you.</li><li>Your personal development program earns respect from within yourself and outside.</li><li>Nothing in the world gives you more satisfaction than knowing you are on the way to success.</li></ol>

Chapter 1: Believe You Can Succeed And You Will

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>Fear is real. And we must recognize it exists before we can conquer it.</li><li>No one is born with confidence, it is acquired over time.</li><li>Action cures fear.</li><li>Deposit and withdraw positive thoughts from your memory bank.</li><li>To think confidently, act confidently.</li><li>Walking 25% faster can make you more confident.</li><li>Speak up and Smile big.</li><li>Doing what’s right is a very practical rule for success.</li></ol>

Chapter 3: Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

(The Magic Of Thinking Big)<ol><li>People are not measured by their college degrees, or family background; but by the size of their thinking.</li><li>We do not think in words and phrases instead only in pictures or images.</li><li>Use positive language to encourage and describe others.</li><li>See what can be, not just what is.</li><li>Practice adding value to things, to people, and to yourself.</li><li>Concentrate on your assets, you are better than you think you are.</li><li>Your further progress depends on how you think about your present state.</li><li>Before getting involved in a petty matter, ask yourself, “Is it really important?”</li><li>Grow big by thinking big!</li></ol>

Chapter 4: How To Think Big

(The Magic Of Thinking Big)<ol><li>Believe it can be done and your mind will find ways to do it.</li><li>Don’t let the tradition freeze your mind. Welcome new ideas, be experimental.</li><li>Ask yourself: “How can I do it better?”</li><li>Big success calls for persons who continually set higher standards for themselves and others.</li><li>Capacity is a state of mind.</li><li>Encourage others to talk. Practice listening.</li><li>Test your own views in the form of questions.</li><li>Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down.</li></ol>

Chapter 5: How To Think And Dream Creatively

“Man belongs, where man wants to go.”

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>To gain respect, first think you deserve respect.</li><li>Remember, your appearance talks to you and to others. Make sure it shows how you truly want to be seen.</li><li>Pay twice as much and buy half as much. Quality matters over quantity.</li><li>Give yourself a pep talk.</li><li>In all of life’s situations ask yourself “Is this the way an important person does it?”</li></ol>

Chapter 6: You Are What You Think You Are

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) People suffer from 4 excusitis (personally excuse disease)Brain excusitis, Age excusitis, Health excusitis, and Luck excusitis﻿<ol><li>The more you repeat it, the more convinced you become that it’s true.</li><li>Looking and looking and looking for an illness often actually produces illness.</li><li>It’s better to wear out than to rust out.</li><li>Don’t underestimate your brainpower and overestimate others.</li><li>The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how intelligent you are.</li><li>Use your mind to think not to store.</li><li>It’s not your luck, it’s your work.</li></ol>

Chapter 2: Cure Yourself Of Excusitis The Failure Disease

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>To activate others, you must first activate yourself.</li><li>Don’t dislike it yet. Dig deeper into it first.</li><li>In everything you do, life it up. When you smile, smile. When you say it, mean it.</li><li>Spread good news.</li><li>Being around complainers and half-dead people is uncomfortable, right? So, don’t be the one.</li><li>Show appreciation at every opportunity. Make people feel important.</li><li>The seed of the money is service.</li><li>Always give people more than they expect to get.</li></ol>

Chapter 8: Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Success depends on the support of others.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Think right toward people.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A person is not pulled up to a higher level rather he is lifted up. Being likable makes you lighter to lift.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Be a comfortable person to be around.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Give spiritual strength to people.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Be active while introducing yourself. Don’t be afraid to be unusual.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Tune in to ‘Channel P’ (Good thought station).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don't waste your time and energy being discouraged. Plan to win next time.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Accept human differences and limitations. Another person has a right to be different too.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let the other person talk about his views too.</li></ol>

Chapter 9: Think Right Toward People

(The Magic Of Thinking Big)<ol><li>Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. Action needs to follow up.</li><li>Waiting for the perfect set of conditions is to wait forever.</li><li>Face the obstacles and difficulties as they arrive.</li><li>You got an idea! Get rollin’.</li><li>Put off a difficult task, it will become even more difficult.</li></ol>

Chapter 10: Get The Action Habit

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>Always salvage something from every setback.</li><li>Bad investments are part of the cost of real education.</li><li>Stop blaming luck.</li><li>Combine persistence with experimentation.</li><li>Back off and start afresh.</li><li>Have the courage to accept your faults and to be your own constructive critic.</li><li>Remember, there is a good side to every situation.</li></ol>

Chapter 11: How To Turn Defeat Into Victory

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to go.</li><li>You will accomplish only what you plan to accomplish. Set goals.</li><li>Keep an interest in life just to keep living.</li><li>Progress is made one step at a time.</li><li>Before doing anything ask yourself, “Will this help take me where I want to go?”</li><li>Prepare to take detours in your stride.</li><li>Spend 30 minutes daily in quiet, undisturbed thinking.</li><li>The profit comes only from investment. So invest in yourself.</li></ol>

Chapter 12: Use Goals To Help You Grow

(The Magic Of Thinking Big) <ol><li>Trade minds with the people you want to influence.</li><li>Think: what is the human way to handle this?</li><li>Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress.</li><li>Take time out to confer with yourself and develop your supreme thinking power.</li></ol>

Chapter 13: How To Think Like A Leader

The timeless and practical advice in The Magic of Thinking Big clearly demonstrates how you can: <ul><li>Sell more</li><li>Manage better</li><li>Lead fearlessly</li><li>Earn more</li><li>Enjoy a happier, more fulfilling life </li><li>With applicable and easy-to-implement insights, you’ll discover:</li><li>Why believing you can succeed is essential</li><li>How to quit making excuses</li><li>The means to overcoming fear and finding confidence</li><li>How to develop and use creative thinking and dreaming</li><li>Why making (and getting) the most of your attitudes is critical</li><li>How to think right towards others</li><li>The best ways to make “action” a habit</li><li>How to find victory in defeat</li><li>Goals for growth, and</li><li>How to think like a leader</li></ul>  "Believe Big,” says Schwartz. “The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans."

David Joseph Schwartz PhD (March 23, 1927 – December 6, 1987) was an American motivational writer and coach, best known for authoring The Magic of Thinking Big in 1959.He was a professor at Georgia State University and also began his own work as a self-help coach and life strategist. Later, he founded his own consultancy firm focusing on leadership development called 'Creative Educational Services Inc'.He became well known through his motivational publications and self-help books, especially for The Magic of Thinking Big, published in 1959.

David J. Schwartz

The Magic of Thinking Big

"The unhealthy relationship has two people. One is the victim and another is the savior. One keeps on creating problems and another keeps on solving those problems because that's their way to get attention and love."﻿

Idea from the book 'The subtle art of not giving f*ck'

Bitter reality

part-1 <ol><li>Be unflinchingly honest with yourself, especially the worst side of you.</li><li>All the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time is actually fixating on what you lack.</li><li>No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. She just is.</li><li>Now ‘hey-look-my-life-is-cooler-than-yours’ social media makes you feel like your life sucks more than you thought, unlike our grandpa’s days.</li><li>The key to a good life is not giving a f*ck about more; it’s giving a f*ck about less, giving a f*ck about only what is true and immediate and important now.</li></ol>

The subtle art of not giving f*ck Chapter 1: Don’t try

part-2<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Solutions to our stress and anxiety are right there in front of our noses, but we are just too busy to see them.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Wanting a positive experience is a negative experience already; accepting a negative experience is a positive experience itself.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Everything worthwhile comes after we face a negative experience.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Choose what matters to you and what doesn’t based on your personal values.</li></ol>﻿Philosopher Albert Camus, “You will never live if you continue to search for happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

Don’t try

part-3<ol><li>Not giving a f*ck doesn’t mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable being different.</li><li>You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without being a joke and an embarrassment to others.</li><li>When you are overthinking about trivial matters that means you don’t have anything legitimate to worry about.</li><li>Whether you realize it or not you are always choosing what to give a f*ck about.</li></ol>

Don't Try

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li>Dissatisfaction and unease are inherent parts of human nature.</li><li>We all need a ‘Disappointment Panda’ who would tell us the harsh truth that we need to hear but don’t want to accept.</li><li>Suffering inspires change.</li><li>Happiness comes from solving problems.</li><li>Denial and victim mentality lead to suffering.</li><li>Over-investment in emotion fails us because emotions never last.</li><li>You can’t win if you don’t play.</li><li>Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.</li><li>Problems won’t end rather get better or upgraded.</li></ol>

Happiness is a problem

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li>Adversity and failure build strong-minded and successful adults.</li><li>Don’t be all talk actually do something.</li><li>Your self-worth is how you feel about negative aspects of yourself.</li><li>Our assumed inability to solve our problems makes us feel miserable and helpless.</li><li>Others do have the same problem as yours for sure, but it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t hurt, it just means that you are not special.</li><li>Accept our life is boring most of the time.</li><li>Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems.</li></ol>

You are not Special

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li class="ql-align-justify">When you stand for something you persist longer.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Based on our values we decide what’s success and failure to us.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Pleasure is a false God.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You cannot always be right.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Even if you want to stay positive, sometimes life sucks, and the healthiest way to deal is to admit it.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If you compare your success with others, you will never be happy.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Self-improvement is about prioritizing better values.</li></ol>Good values — Honestly, self-respect, curiosity, etc.Bad values — Dominance through violence, always being the center of attention, feeling good all the time, etc.﻿

The Value of Suffering

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li>You are the one responsible for interpreting the meaning of the event and choosing a response.</li><li>Accepting responsibility is the first towards the solution.</li><li>Care about something more important and worthy of your energies.</li><li>The new normal can be uncomfortable.</li><li>You always have better choices.</li></ol>“With great responsibility comes great power.”

You Are Always Choosing

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li>Growth is an endlessly iterative process.</li><li>Learning is not going from ‘Wrong’ to ‘right’ straight, rather, it’s going from ‘wrong’ to ‘slightly less wrong’.</li><li>There is no perfect ideology, only experience is there that has shown what’s right for you.</li><li>The definition of being correct will change and evolve cause we change and evolve.</li><li>Stop assuming that you know how the story will end, and try it out.</li></ol>

You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)

6. The way we remember our experiences can differ slightly as time passes.7. The pursuit of certainty often breeds more insecurity.8. We always tend to avoid doing something that may question our pre-built identity.9. When we let go of the stories we tell about ourselves, to us, we free ourselves up to act (and fail) and grow.10. If it feels like it’s you vs the world, chances are it’s you vs you.

<ul><li>What if I am wrong?</li><li>What would it mean if I were wrong?</li><li>Would being wrong create better or worse problems than my current problems, for both myself and others?</li></ul>

﻿Questions to ask yourself:

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck)<ol><li>If you are unwilling to fail, you are unwilling to succeed.</li><li>Set your values and metrics that depend on your own actions not on others’ behavior.</li><li>Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answer will follow you.</li><li>Pain is part of the process.</li><li>Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.</li></ol>

Failure is the Way Forward

(The subtle art of not giving a f*ck) <ol><li>Absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing.</li><li>Rejection makes your life better.</li><li>An unhealthy romantic relationship is like cocaine. (Two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other)</li><li>Healthy relationships have boundaries and trust.</li><li>Honesty is more important than feeling good all the time.</li></ol>

The Importance of Saying No

"The unhealthy relationship has two people. One is the victim and another is the savior. One keeps on creating problems and another keeps on solving those problems because that's their way to get attention and love."﻿

#1 New York Times BestsellerOver 10 million copies soldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Mark Manson (born 1984) is a professional blogger, entrepreneur, and former dating coach. Since 2007, he's been helping people with their emotional and relationship problems. He has worked with thousands of people from over 30 different countries. He regularly writes and updates his blog at: www.markmanson.net

Mark Manson

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Yes, we learn as we go on with life no matter how rushed we are.