Thinking for a Change

I have started reading Thinking for a Change by John Maxwell.

I have known for a long time that I suffered from negative thinking. I was one of the biggest pessimists that I knew for a long time (now I am familiar with someone who is a "realist" by his definition and is a bigger pessimist then I ever was). I knew that being a pessimist was limiting where I was going.

The second thing I knew that was limiting me was fear. I was afraid of rejection and therefore I didn't do things that I should have. I didn't send my book out for I was afraid that no one would want it. I have deleted poems, short stories, and book ideas because of that same fear. Therefore, I never went anywhere.

Reading this book has highlighted additional areas where my thinking has kept me unsuccessful. I have small picture thinking, I am afraid of looking at the big picture. I am still not quite sure how to get past this, I just know that I must in order to go all of the places that I wish to be.

I certainly haven't gotten all the way through the book and therefore don't really know what else it will bring up, but I do know that I want to be a successful person who has more then enough financially and who feels satisfied in other areas as well.