Author: Norman Vincent Peale

1. An abstraction of the first few chapters
presented by Nadeeshani Hewage

2. - NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
- American author
- Professional speaker

5.  Develop self-confidence
 Eliminate the inferiority complex
 Develop creative faith
-faith that is justified

6.  “Sir..I’m seeing a man tomorrow about a
job….It’s something I want…
….BUT I have terrible disbelief in myself.. ..I’m
absolutely sunk” 
 Lack of faith-takes you nowhere
 “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH
CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME”

7.  “A young man whom I wish to advance
….But cannot be trusted with important,
confidential information….
He talks too much…”
 Reasons:
› Reared in poverty
› No college man or fraternity member
 INFERIORITY COMPLEX

8.  Compensatory mechanism:
Revealing inside information to
associates
 Gain admiration & envy
 Gain recognition
 Gain esteem
 Real powers release after proper
explanation.

9.  “I have lost everything…nothing left…
besides I have lost my faith..”
 Reason:
Inability to enter the college as promised
by father
 Values she had not lost
› Health
› Comfortable housing & food
› Love

11.  “It’s my mother..She can’t sleep. I’ve
got to find some way to help her
sleep..”
 Vincent recalls:
Go-to-sleep plan
“Bible verses..; After prayers I go up to
my room & sleep like a top”

12. EMPTY YOUR MIND – DROP THE SORROWS
 Religious service onboard the S.S. Lurline
in his voyage to Honolulu
 People with worries requested to
› go to the stern of the vessel;
› take out each anxious thought;
› drop it over board;
› watch it disappear…

13. FILL IT UP WITH SCENERIES OF TRANQUILITY
 Beautiful valley with the hush of eve as
shadows lengthen & sun sinks to rest…
 Silvery light of moon falling upon rippling
waters…
 Sea washing gently upon soft shores of
sand…

14.  REPEAT PEACEFUL WORDS
› Tranquility
› Serenity
› Picturise as presented in poetry or literal
passages
 HAPPY, OPTIMISTIC, SATISFYING
EXPRESSIONS

15.  ENJOY SILENCE
› Before exams…practice the art of silence
 Throw your mind to neutral
 Hard but worth
 Increases your efficiency
 A clear, steady mind
 QUIT SUFFERING SELF PUNISHMENT
› Discussion with young man at a resort hotel
› Confess & release your stress

16.  Fill it up with sceneries of tranquility
 Repeat peaceful words
 Happy, optimistic, satisfying expressions

17. Thank You