• Keller encourages readers to create mental movies in their minds, picturing every milestone toward the ultimate goal they want to achieve.
• You must also rid your mind of old mental images that remind you of negative factors, like failure and disappointment.
• If you are still failing, then you are still holding on to pictures of lower aspiration or failure.

• Your dominant thoughts rule the day.
• If you continually think positively about a goal, you will take steps to move toward that goal.
• But with a negative attitude, you are never going to take that first step.
• Think positive thoughts until it becomes a habit.
• Repetition is the key. 

• The key to getting what you want is this willingness to do whatever it takes.
• So make this commitment to yourself. Once you have supplied this commitment, you will then be determined to reach your goal. Positive events will start happening once you have committed.
• It won’t be easy, but if you don’t give up, you can move mountains.

After a disappointment, you have a choice to make. You can either:

• Keep feeling miserable

( OR )

• Learn a lesson from the setbacks and move on

Often “problems” aren’t even real problems. Instead, they’re merely opportunities to take positive action. They allow you to improve and do better next time.

• We are the average of all the people we spend time with.
• This is because the people we spend most of our time with greatly influence our thoughts and actions. They define our outlook and future.

• If you want to be successful, you must be willing to be uncomfortable.
• The people who succeed are those who overcome obstacles along the way, and you have to stretch yourself to improve.
• Always adopt a can-do attitude as you prepare to take on tough challenges.
• Repetition is vital because taking on one obstacle will make the next one easier to overcome.

• While tackling on obstacles, we must be ready to fail.
• If you avoid failure, you can’t learn new skills.
• To succeed tomorrow, you must be willing to fail today. 
• After failure, you have to persevere. Learn from your failures and improve each time you fail.
• After one failure, work with double the enthusiasm on the next opportunity you have.

• There is no such thing as a failure until you completely give up.
• Before you give up, “failures” are just intermediate results that differ in measuring how successful you were and how they might re-direct you toward your goals.