Book Summary Preview : Permission to Win

The Big Idea

From a new breed of motivators, America’s Attitude Coach Ray Pelletier gives you a practical guide for translating your personal mission into concrete action. Make today your January 1st. Say goodbye to negative thoughts and change your life by giving yourself Permission to Win.

1. Talking with Champions

• Poor perceptions of ourselves are formed in early childhood and may stay with us for the rest of our lives, unless we make an effort to change and have a winning attitude.
• Everyone has a “Simon” in their lives. A Simon (as in the game Simon Says) is either a person or a circumstance that caused you to be a negative thinker. A Simon makes you focus on what you can’t do, rather than what you can. If Simon Says give up, a person with low self-confidence and little self-worth easily gives up.

2. Decide to Win

• The first step to winning is: You need to Decide to win.
• Your January 1st marks the day you decide to restructure your way of thinking and escape from every cell to which others have confined or limited you.
• Life is full of prisons, some of them self-made. Whether you are suffering from an illness, are dissatisfied with your job, or are in a marriage that is on the rocks, you Can let yourself out of the prison you are in if you just give yourself permission to do so.
• Perhaps when you were a child, someone gave you the idea that you were stupid and worthless, and that has been stuck in your subconsious mind all these years.
• If you respect yourself, regardless of what others may think of you, you have high self-esteem.
• Real self-esteem is not based on superficial and temporary things like a job, a relationship, or material wealth. It comes from you knowing who you really are and staying true to yourself. Real self-esteem cannot be destroyed by outside forces.

3. What is winning?

• Giving yourself permission to win means deciding today and everyday that you are a winner.
• Winning is acknowledging one of life’s greatest truths – “It doesn’t matter what happens to you, just what you Do with what happens to you!” – a winner is someone who knows how to overcome adversity.
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