Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfieldis an American author, motivational speaker, seminar leader, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur.:453 He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages. In 2005 Canfield co-authored with Janet Switcher The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 April 1944
CityFort Worth, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.
You become like the people you spend the most time with.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.
It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they're always positive.
Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.
Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about.
Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.