DARE

TO
WIN

JACK CANFIELD
&
MARK VICTOR HANSEN

INTRODUCTION
Who doesnt dream to become big?
We all have certain goals that we want to achieve throughout our lifetime, for example one
individual wants to become a great singer, or great politician, have the love of his life, etc.
But there is a thing or several reasons or we can say lame excuses that hold us back to
achieve our goal, of we are so passionate about.
Fear, is our biggest roadblock that holds us back to achieve or have that accomplishment in
our lives. We tend to make very lame excuses, such as I am fat, I am ugly, I am weak, I have
low confidence, etc.
Ask yourself, is that the real reason of which you are not able to reach your goal?
They are all internal fears that stops one, to come out of the box. These reasons are those
which we make in order to satisfy for our failure of not trying to pursue our goals.
You can achieve that goal, yes you can nothing will stop you. One has to just overcome his
baseless fears that thwarts him. Fear nothing, but only the fear itself, quoted by Franklin
Roosevelt.
Bring in the courage, be determinant, have passion, to overcome your fear. Dont be afraid of
what if I succeed? Will I be able to handle the responsibilities after that?
If I become the President, then I have to speak and address to the large number of crowd. Will
Ill be able to do that?
One needs just needs that push. Dare to dream, dare to overcome your fears, dare to win. It
may not happen immediately, it may take few days or weeks, but it will happen. Believe in
yourself. You can do it.

1
PROBLEMS ARE
OPPORTUNITIES IN DISGUISE
What the author here states that whenever you have problem in your life dont look at it as a
bad thing, make as an opportunity, convert it into positive one.
He has taken an example of Dr.Peale, where he states that when one says a problem is bad, he
is being pessimist, on the other hand one who sees problems as opportunity, he is being
optimist.
He states that if one wants to overcome his problems, he has to break through his fears, while
dealing with it. If we want to explain this in normal way, in order to make it understanding to
a layman, we take four states of problem.
Finances
The author has taken a perfect example of Mr.Mark, who had gone through many upside
down, but still didnt saw his problems as a block in his life ahead.
Mark was a very successful businessman, he had few Geodesic Domes in New York City. His
business was at its peak. Making unexpected profits, giving jitters to his competitors.
But in 1974, the world saw a rather disturbing downfall, there was an embargo of Arab Oil.
As Marks dome used major portion of PVC and petrochemical products as raw material in
making of these domes, it was rather a sudden shock to his business. The prices of shot as of
the roof that created a huge hole in his pocket.
Mark once the man who was at his peak, found himself the next moment at verge of
bankruptcy. After few hearings the court officially declared the entrepreneur as bankrupt.
It was very disturbing and horrifying situation of his life, spending most of his day sleeping,
he feared that everyone would make fun of his condition. He had hit rock-bottom of his life.
In order to survive he started doing mediocre jobs, which for man like him was quite
shocking and sad. But when you see from different perspective, when has to start from
scratch all over again, the number of opportunities rises exponentially.

After this incident it was Marks persistence and hard work which bought back on track. After
few years we see that now he has 3 businesses and a loving family. So its all about ones
perspective of how he sees the problem in his life.
Physical Appearance
Most of us are very concise about how we look, whether we look beautiful, whether people
will love me, accept me?
Or whether they will reject me?
This is one of the main reasons people, hold themselves back from pursuing their goal in life.
In this book a person named Malcolm was seriously injured in an accident where he was
attacked by a bear. That incident left a very impactful scar or impression on his face
externally and somewhat internally also.
Remember on famous quote, The beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Fear of rejection
here, is the biggest hurdle in an individuals life.
Malcolm felt that he couldnt do or cannot face anyone because of this condition, he even
tried to put an end to his life. But to his relief his father saved him, acted as a guide for him.
He then listened and attended few lectures of Mark, who inspired, motivated and encouraged
many lives as Malcolms. After realising the true beauty of his persona, Malcolm got some
spark, a spark to start a new life, a belief that even he can achieve the desirable goal of life.
The quote Never judge a book by its cover, well fits over here.
Multiple Losses
There might have been multiple times in everyones life that they have failed in trying to
achieve the unachievable. Its not about how many times we fail, but its that one attempt
when we hit bang on!
I can relate to this one as I myself have failed or suffered losses that made me believe that I
am a loser, I cant ever succeed in life. But it didnt stop me to pursue my goal, there was a
spark that kept me going. The passion to achieve, passion that motivates me to keep on going.
Never give up, on your dreams.

Famous personality Thomas Edison too failed thousands of time before creating his ultimate
invention. He says that he didnt fail the thousand times, he learnt from his every last attempt,
and eventually succeeded.
Just believe in your self dont listen to others, dont let others judgement bother you or
deviate you from your goal. Had Edison stopped trying, we wouldnt have been able to see
light today, isnt it?
All the concepts in this book, ends up with one conclusion, that is do not fear, break through
it.

Poor Health
I have got a cold, I cannot come to the office today, boss. Sent this mail to his boss, the
individual remained at home for the entire day, wasting his time.
If at all we stop making such type of lame excuses, the world would become a best place to
live. So many times these type of excuses holds us back for not achieving our goals.
Had Terry stopped running for the cause he was fighting for, had there been any change to his
group of people, no they would suffer the same trauma as his. Its only because he broke
through, then he was able to convince the people he met to contribute to the people who
suffer cancer and die eventually.
His remarkable efforts, his strong decisions made him collect such huge amount of money for
the needy. Even while he was on his bed, counting his last few breathes of life, he wanted to
run for the cause for which he is the condition right now.
We should have that kind of attitude towards life, as of Terrys. There many of such type of
inspiring stories, we can go all night talking about it. But do we really get inspired by those
stories?
There no such thing as weakness, in ones body. The weakness or the block is mentally, that
keeps us dragging behind.
There is simply nothing that can keep us, humans behind. If there is firm goal, strong passion
to achieve it, nothing is going to stop us.

To conclude this chapter, here in each example, each individual faced the lowest possible
point of their life, but still chose to break through it. Dont think that they are some kind of
extra ordinary group of people. No, they are not. They are just like us, its us the ordinary or
the common man, who does extra ordinary things. The perception of an individual plays an
important part here, how sees the problem. As an opportunity or as a threat?
Whenever you feel something is holding you back, say the quote mentioned by Dr. Jack
Wolfe in the book, OH, What the heck, go for it anyway! Say it again and again, until it
forces you to take the right action that is needed.

2
EXPAND YOUR IMAGINATION
ABOUT WHATS POSSIBLE
A human beings mind is like an ocean, endless. It can store large amount of data and has
such power to implement whatever we have learnt throughout the course of time.
Here the author states that if you use the power of your mind, then you can achieve anything
you want. You just need to tell your mind that what you want and it will be done.
The above statement in my view is hypothetical.
A humourus example is given by the author to explain the above statements. An example of a
farmer and a pilot is given, where they both meet and strike deal. The farmer didnt have the
amount to enjoy the pleasurable ride of the plane. So the pilot made an agreement if the
farmer doesnt scream throughout the ride then its free, otherwise he has to pay the ten times
the amount. Farmer agrees and request on his wife could also join the ride, of which the pilot
agrees. Throughout the terrifying ride farmer and his wife didnt utter a word, on asking how
he could control his scream for such a long time. Farmer full of joy replied, the only thing
that brings worries in his life fell out plane during the ride, so then he had nothing to be sad
about.
Here from the beginning the farmer was sure of what he wanted and he achieved that.
Now the question here arises of how to harness our minds power?
What here we learn is that there are two parts of our mind, conscious and subconscious.
Conscious helps us to take action and subconscious helps us to know by which way we can
do that. Its simple the more you expect from life more youll get. Basically if there is no
input to the mind then the two parts dont have worry of what they have to do.
One has to just give a direction to ones mind and the rest will be taken care of.
Here is states that one needs to have a goal, and I order to achieve it our mind power plays a
major role in that. It nullifies the fear which obstructs our path to glory.

Only thing is that you to have a creative and constructive idea. After Russias effort in
making a space craft, John Kennedy the President of USA, then decided that they will land
the moon one day, and it will be achieved within 10 years. They succeeded in 8 years and 2
months. It was his firm, crystallised decision that inspired the nation to achieve his goal.
As observed and also mentioned in book, our goals are like magnets they attract us towards it.
But as our subconscious is too delicate and handles a lot of data, so most of the times it
attracts negative thinking and deviates us from our goal.
So before we deviate or our goal gets fade away we should write it down. One should always
write down his goals.
Its not necessary or there is no rule written anywhere, that our goal should be achieved
within the short period of time. It may take longer to achieve than expected.
Also dont be dependent on one particular goal, because the possibility is that after you have
achieved you desired goal, you may lose the interest in it.
So if you have more than one goal, you start focusing on other one, after you have got your
hands on the primary one.
Write many goals, 100s or 1000s, maintain a diary which mentions about your future
goals. Dont limit yourself, expand your horizon, your imagination, and dream, dare to
achieve more.
The main thing here is that one should not compromise on his dream or goal. It might be
big, different, not possible to even dream of, but still one should not let him hold back
because of all these reasons.
What do you know? You dreamt of having the costliest car in world, and few years down the
lane, you might be even able to achieve that goal.
Most importantly dont blab or talk around, of your goal to everyone. They might try to
pull you down, demotivate you, and make fun of your goal. Trust only your close ones, who
understand you and support you.
In the end when you achieve your goals dont just simply strike it down, rather write
Victory against it. So that when you look back you may know how hard it was to achieve it,

what all were your experiences during that process. Striking off from the list would demean
the status of your goal.
Whatever happens in our life is for a purpose. Even when we set a goal, it is for a purpose.
Without any purpose is baseless, nothing can be started without a purpose.
Follow 3 basic fundamentals of life, i.e.
Purpose = Why
Goal = What
Action-Strategy = How
These will tell you why you want to achieve it, what will be your primary goal, and
essentially how will you do that?
Resources are abundant you just need to look for it and you will eventually receive it.