I used to think I was stupid. Early in my college career, I turned in a paper – 10 pages on the Puritans – on which I worked very hard. The teacher read it to the class, and said, “this is exactly what a college paper should be.” I left that room realizing I wasn’t stupid – my gosh, what a difference that made – but I was lazy. And I knew I could fix being lazy.
Another change of mind is I’ve become a generous tipper. I used to never tip, thinking that if the restaurant didn’t pay employees, what’s that to me? But Jim Rohn set me straight. If the service is good, I leave 15 percent for the server. I leave another 10 percent for how I will feel later. That extra couple of bucks is a small price to feel good about who you are all day long.
As a missionary in a foreign land, I met many fellow messengers who owned large, expensive cameras they didn’t know how to 
use. I could zip in and out with my Kodak instamatic in the time they got their cases opened. I often made fun of these guys, until one of them loaned me a Canon AE-1. I was immediately hooked, and went from being a skeptic to a hobbyist to putting myself through college using one.
Simple changes of mind, huge changes of fortune.
