"Strategies to Take Control of Your Life".

1. Strategies
to Take Control
of Your Life
Raul Dinzey

2. Overview
Living with purpose desire and goals
Visualizing a better tomorrow
Persisting through your challenges
Taking action

3. Life—You Get What you Ask For
I bargained with life for a penny
And life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For life is a just employer
He gives you what you ask
But once you have set the wages
You must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn dismayed
That any wage I had asked of life,
Life would have willingly paid.

4. Principles
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe
the mind can achieve
You can do it if you believe you can
The most successful people are those who
serve the greatest number of people
Develop a pleasing personality- pleasing to
yourself and others

5. Positive Mental Attitude
Is the medium to balance your life and
relationships to people and circumstances – to
attract what you desire
We are born with: the right to control the
thoughts we dwell on and therefore our mental
attitude
Is one of life’s riches- through this attitude
anything worthwhile is achieved
Keep your mind on the things you want and off
the things you don’t want

6. The Subconscious Mind
Make your emotions work for you
Prayer

7. Flow
Desire backed by a definite goal with persistent
action
Auto suggestion visualization and aloud daily
reading of definite plan
Master mind alliance working in harmony and a
spirit of cooperation

8. Definite Purpose
Is the starting point of all achievement
Without direction you are aimless,
directionless and powerless
Know where you are going before
starting- self motivated, self driven
successful
Decide:
– What do you want
– Find out how to get it
– Then take daily action to achieving your goal

9. Pleasant Personality
Is the aggregate of all the agreeable gratifying and
likable qualities of any one individual
Believe in yourself – First and foremost!
What you believe yourself to be – you are
The attitudes you transmit to others will tell more
about you than words or how you look
Enthusiasm comes from within- you can develop it
by your thoughts feelings and emotions

10. Faith
Is a state of mind we can develop by
conditioning our mind to receive infinite
intelligence to a definite purpose
The offspring of success or failure come from
our thoughts
When faith added to thought the subconscious
mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates
it into its spiritual equivalent and transmit it to
infinite intelligence
Faith is the method through which we can
harness the cosmic force of infinite intelligence

11. Going the Extra Mile
Give more than what you receive, sooner or later you
will be repaid with interest
Every seed of useful service you sow- will multiply and
come back to you in overwhelming abundance
Put your mind to work assess your ability and energy
Who could use your help? How can you help?
Ingenuity and strong desire to be of genuine service
Helping others solve their problems will help you solve
your own

12. Personal Initiative:
Self Drive
Bears the same relationship as a self-starter to
an automobile
Is the power that assures completion of what
you start
Inner power that starts all action
Is the dynamo that spurs the faculty of your
imagination into action and inspires you to
finish what you start

13. Enthusiasm
Is a state of mind
is the most contagious of all emotions
Is a combination of mental and physical energy
Thrives best where sound physical health
abounds
Sound health begins with the development and
maintenance of health consciousness
To be enthusiastic – act enthusiastically!

14. Self- Discipline
Is to take possession of our own mind
The power or thought is the one thing
we can control
By directing your dominant thoughts we
ordain our destiny
Take charge of your life - you are what
you think
Direct your thoughts – control your
emotions - and ordain your destiny!

15. Accurate Thinking
Involves two fundamentals
– Think clearly by separating the facts into two
classes:
The important and the unimportant
Accurate thinkers permit no one to do their thinking
for them
Gather information and listen to the opinions of
others, but reserve for yourself the privilege of
making decisions
Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind,
ignorance or the refusal to believe

16. Focused Attention
Is the act of coordinating all the
faculties of the mind and directing their
combined power to a given end
Learn to fix your attention on a given
subject, at will for whatever length of
time you choose
You will have learned the secret to
power and plenty- concentration
Keep your mind on the things you want
and off the things you don’t want!

17. Mastermind Alliance Principle
Consists of two or more minds working in
perfect harmony for the attainment of a
common definite objective
Seek to work together in a state of coordinated
harmony
No person can become a permanent success
without taking others along with him

18. Teamwork
Is the willing cooperation and coordination of
effort to achieve a common goal.
Is sharing part of what you have- the good part
with others
Differs from the Mastermind because it is based
on coordination of effort without embracing the
principle of definiteness of purpose or the
principle of harmony
Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset
which you can acquire in proportion to your
giving

19. Difficulties and Challenges
Every adversity you meet carries with it a seed
of equivalent or greater benefit
Close the door of your mind to all previous
failures and circumstances
Operate in a positive mental attitude
Every problem has a solution – you have to find
it
Problems are only temporary set backs and
stepping stones to success

20. Creative Vision
Is a quality of mind belonging only to people
who follow the habit of going the extra mile
Is closely related to the state of mind known as
faith and is significant- those who have
demonstrated the greatest amount of creative
vision are people with a capacity for faith
The imagination is the workshop of the soul
wherein are shaped all plans for individual
achievement

21. Auto Suggestion
Go To a quiet place- Repeat aloud written
statement
Repeat this program morning and night until
you meet your goal
Place a written copy in plain sight until
memorized

22. Sound Health
Sound physical health is dependant upon a
positive mental attitude
Establish a sound well balanced health habits
in work, play, rest, nourishment and study
What your mind focuses upon – your mind
brings into existence

23. Budgeting time
and Money
Successful people budget their time, income
and expenditures, living within their means
Failures squander time and income with
contemptuous disregard for their value
Tell me how you use your spare time and
money and I will tell you where and what you
will be doing ten years from now

24. Force of Habit
You are where you are and what you are
because of your established habits and
thoughts and actions
You have the power to break bad habits and to
create good ones in their place – at will
We have the power of choice through which we
may establish our own thoughts and behavior
patterns

25. Undo Destructive Thinking
What the mind of man can conceive and believe
it can achieve- Overcome worry and Fear
Above all:
– Attain happiness
– Find peace of mind and
– Take care of your basic material needs
Protect yourself against negative influences
You have absolute control over the thoughts you dwell on
Old age
Loss of love
Death

26. 6 Basic Fears
Fear of
Poverty- most paralyzing fear
Criticism
Ill health
Old age
Loss of love
Death

27. Combating Fear
You Make your own breaks find other ways to use
your talents
Most important is definite of purpose
Be persistent and courageous

28. Leadership
Unwavering courage
Self control
Keen sense of justice
Definite of decision and plans
Habit of doing more than you are paid

29. Leadership
(cont’d)
Pleasing personality
Sympathy and understanding
Mastery of detail
Taking responsibility
Cooperation

30. Causes of Failure
Inability to organize details
Unwillingness to render humble service
Expectations of being paid for what you
know
Fear of Competition from followers
Lack of imagination

31. Causes of Failure
(cont’d)
Selfishness
Intemperance
Disloyalty
Emphasis of authority of position and
title

32. Major Causes of Failure
Unfavorable Lack of well Lack of Insufficien Lack self
heritage/ or defined ambition t discipline/self
background purpose or above education control
goal or mediocrity or use of
definite aim knowledge
Ill health Unfavorable Procrastinatio 6 Basic Wrong
childhood n/ indecision fears selection of
environment mate
Over-caution Wrong Lack of Superstitio Wrong
doesn’t take selection of persistence n and selection of a
risks business prejudice vocation
associates
Negative Lack of Habit of Lack of Intolerance-
personality concentratio indiscriminate enthusias closed mind
n of effort spending m
Intemperance Inability to Power/position Intentional Egotism and
over cooperate not earned dishonesty vanity
indulgence with others
Guessing Lack of Any other
instead of capital cash reason not
thinking named

33. Persistence & Determination
Starting point for all achievement is desire
Essential factor, sheer will power and desire
Weak desire bring weak results
Need persistence work:
– With master mind group
– On auto suggestion
– Power

34. Persistence & Determination
(cont’d)
Definiteness of purpose and plans
Desire
Self-reliance
Accurate knowledge
Cooperation
Will power
Habit

35. Persistence Inventory
Defined exactly what you want
Procrastination along with excuses
Indecision - not facing issues head on
Fear of criticism
Lack
– Interest in acquiring specialized knowledge
– Organized written plans that can be analyzed

36. Persistence Inventory
(cont’d)
Paralyzed by fear of criticism resulting in failure
to
– Create plans
– Put them into action
– Because of what others think do or say
Habit of:
– Making excuses instead of creating definite plans
– Neglecting to move on ideas
– Wishing instead of wiling
– Searching for shortcuts to success

37. Sample Self Analysis
INTERNAL - STRENGTHS EXTERNAL THREATS
-Skills, Knowledge, Abilities -Threats In Your Career Field
-Work Experience -Likelihood Of Downsizing
-Positive Characteristics -Amount Of Competition For
-Network Of Connections Jobs
-Dead-end Type Of Work
INTERNAL- WEAKNESSES EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES
-Lack Of Certain Skills, Etc. -Likelihood Of Job Growth
-Lack Of Certain Experience -Chances To Increase Skills
-Negative Characteristics -Chances For Advancement
-Lack Of Goals And / Or
Education

38. Analyze Yourself
INTERNAL- STRENGTHS EXTERNAL -THREATS
INTERNAL- WEAKNESSES EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

39. Take Action
Detailed plan

40. Action Plan
Definite Purpose- write down what you want
What will you give in return for what you want
Set a date when you intend to accomplish
Create a definite plan for carrying out your
goal and place action into action at once
Write out a clear concise statement of the
– amount money you intend to acquire,
– name the time limit for its acquisition
– What you will give in return
– Describe a clear plan how you intend to do it

41. Action Plan (cont’d)
Write out a clear concise statement of the
Amount money you intend to acquire,
Name the time limit for its acquisition
What you will give in return
Describe a clear plan how you intend to do it

42. Worksheet
Goals, Reasons What will it Whom or When do
dreams why its take to where can you want
and important make this help you? to achieve
desires ? a reality this goal?

43. Jobs
Job House Agency Pay Rate Status/Remarks

44. Plan Activity Right Now 11/10/2009
House Job Money Other

45. Plan Debt Plan
Priority Cash Flow Balance Monthly
Pay off Sheet If no change

46. Vision and
Mission Statement
What do you see for yourself?
?
?

47. Plan B
Cost Cash Flow Requirements Status
Analysis

48. Plan Debt Plan
Priority Cash Flow Balance Monthly
Pay off Sheet If no change

49. Gap Analysis
and Action Plan
Employer I have Gaps Action Timeframe
Needs (difference) Needed Start/Finish

50. References
Think and Grow Rich by
Napoleon Hill
7 habits of highly effective people
Stephen Covey

51. Contact Information
Raul Dinzey
rauldinzey@yahoo.com
raul.dinzey@us.army.mil
(703) 419-0469
(202) 205-0469