If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t, it’s almost a cinch you won’t
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out in the world we find, success begins with ones will: it is all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster person.
But sooner or later the one who wins is the one who thinks they can!
Russell Helwig wrote “Leadership Below the Surface.” He is the one who shared the above message that his wife gave to him!
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Negativism is the root of defeatism which results in failure.