Dr. Walter Doyle Staples said it best in his book Think Like a Winner:

When you change your thinking,
you change your beliefs;

When you change your beliefs,
you change your expectations;

When you change your expectations,
you change your attitude;

When you change your attitude,
you change your behavior;

When you change your behavior,
you change your performance;

When you change your performance,
you change your life!

Dick Gregory: Race, Comedy, and Justice

Confirmation:

"I am an irresistible magnet with the POWER to attract unto myself everything that I divinely desire according to the thoughts, feelings and mental pictures I constantly entertain and radiate.  I am the CENTER of my universe. 

I have the POWER to create whatever I wish.  I attract whatever I radiate.  I attract whatever I mentally choose and accept.  I begin choosing and mentally accepting the highest and best in life.  I now choose and accept health, success and happiness. I now choose lavish abundance for myself and for all humankind.  


This is a rich, friendly universe and I dare to accept its riches, its hospitality and to enjoy them now." 

The Man Who Thinks He Can

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 a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.

Walter D. Wintle, "The Man Who Thinks He Can." - Poems That Live Forever, comp. Hazel Feldman 1965

Register health, prosperity and happiness on your inner mind and some morning soon you will wake to find that you are healthy, prosperous and happy, that you have your dearest wish in life-"The Secret of the Ages" by Robert Collier

Robert Collier's Formula For Success

In his book "The Secrets of the Ages" Robert Collier gives his Formula to Success in 3 steps

Step #1 Call on GOD (Know Your Power)

Step #2 Decide on the ONE thing you want most from life

Step # 3 Center your THOUGHTS on your desire with singleness of purpose.

Perfect Self-Expression

I have been feasting off of Florence Scovel Shinn's book "The Game of Life and How to Play It."  I would like to share with you a passage from the chapter "Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design"

"There is for each man, perfect self-expression.  There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny!

This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine Mind, awaiting man's recognition. As the imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is necessary for man to see the idea, before it can manifest.

So man's highest demand is for the Divine Design of his life.

He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is, possibly , some marvelous talent, hidden deep within him.

His demand should be: "Infinite Spirit open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan."

The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression.  This is the square of life which brings perfect happiness." Florence Scovel Shinn