A delightful children's story tells of a little blue engine who
looked at his impossible task of pulling a train up a steep hill
and said, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." Filled
with determination, the little blue engine huffed and puffed and
pulled up the hill. But in an amusing twist to the original
story, another author wro
te:
"He was almost there, when -- CRASH! SMASH! BASH!
He slid down and mashed into engine hash
On the rocks below...which goes to show
If the track is tough and the hill is rough
THINKING you can ain't enough.
The winner glories in the good; the whiner majors in the
mediocre. Winners' thinking processes differ from other
people's. As part of their normal, moment-to-moment stream of
consciousness, winners think constantly in terms of I can and I
will. Losers concentrate their waking thoghts on...what they
should have done...would have done...what they can't do. When
the mind's self-talk is positive, performance is more likely to
be successful. The huge majority of our negative doubts and
fears are imaginary or beyond our control."
