How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life pdfdrive com

6. Repeat the Process
One good thought does not make a good life. The people who have one good
thought and try to ride it for an entire career often end up unhappy or destitute.
They are the one-hit wonders, the one-book authors, the one-message speakers,
the one-time inventors who spend their life struggling to protect or promote their
single idea. Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that
they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for
fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep
repeating the process of good thinking.

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PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE RIGHTPLACE TO THINK
Becoming a good thinker isn’t overly complicated. It’s a discipline. If you do
the six things I have outlined, you will set yourself up for a lifestyle of better
thinking. But what do you do to come up with specific ideas on a day-to-day
basis?
I want to teach you the process that I’ve used to discover and develop good
thoughts. It’s certainly not the only one that works, but it has worked well for
me.

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1. Find a Place to Think Your Thoughts
If you go to your designated place to think expecting to generate good
thoughts, then eventually you will come up with some. Where is the best place to
think? Everybody’s different. Some people think best in the shower. Others, like
my friend Dick Biggs, like to go to a park. For me, the best places to think are in
my car, on planes, and in the spa. Ideas come to me in other places as well, such
as when I’m in bed. (I keep a special lighted writing pad on my nightstand for
such times.) I believe I often get thoughts because I make it a habit to frequently
go to my thinking places. If you want to consistently generate ideas, you need to
do the same thing. Find a place where you can think, and plan to capture your
thoughts on paper so that you don’t lose them. When I found a place to think my
thoughts, my thoughts found a place in me.

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