Chapter 11
Action Exercises
1. Resolve that you will bounce rather than break. Examine your biggest disappointment in life right now and determine how you can learn or benefit from it.
2. Identify the three worst things that could happen to you in the months ahead. What is your plan to avoid or minimize their possible negative effects?
3. Select your biggest worry or problem right now and determine how you can learn and grow from this difficulty. What is the most important lesson that it contains?
4. Practice the Edison approach to life. Calmly accept that every temporary setback is merely a way of identifying a way that does not work. Therefore, it is a success.
5. No matter what happens, think about your goals and what you can do right now to achieve them. Get busy.
6. Identify the trends in your business. Which way is the market going? If things continue the way they are today, what decisions or changes will you have to make?
7. Ask two questions about your most recent important experience: What did you do right? And what would you do differently next time? Resolve to learn every possible lesson from every setback or difficulty.