Dear Friend,
Thinking positively sounds like an old-fashioned cliche to a lot of people. Positive thinking strikes many people
as superficial, a short-term fix or a gimmick that seems appealing but doesn't really help mold the
kind of powerful and consistent positive attitude essential for success.
May I share with you three reaons why I believe thinking positively is the way to go?
1. When Dr. Norman Vincent Peale wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952, a book which went
on to sell more seven million copies, concepts, he presented a powerful collection of thoughts and
philosophies dating back to the days of the Greeks.
Dr. Peale understood what Aristotle understood...
We are what we repeatedly do.
He reminded us that thinking is what comes before doing, so if we repeatedly think in a positive fashion, we will live our lives in a positive fashion.
2. Fifty years before Dr. Peale's landmark book, the father of American philosophy, William James, was teaching
at Harvard. He too felt that what we are thinking about not only sets the course for our days and for our lives, but that
we are capable of thinking grander thoughts than most of us imagine...
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given
day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we
ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are
ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so
deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
These "higher levels of power" can naturally involve thinking positively, imagining success, and developing the day-in,
day-out positive attitude that is essential for achieving our goals.
But thinking is only the start. Thomas Edison reminds us there is some doing which needs to be connected
to the thinking...
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile
are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third,
common sense.
3. When Edison mentions hard work and persistence, he helps us understand why so many people tend to underestimate the practice of thinking positively.
As Jacob Bronowski put it...
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The mind that is thinking positively is thinking about where we want to be... not brooding on yesterday's mistakes,
not fretting over today's aggravations, but focusing on what we would like tomorrow to look like.
When the positive thinker imagines tomorrow, the vision is extremely specific, exceedingly detailed. Dr. Denis
Waitley, who has worked with high achievers such as Olympic athletes and astronauts, reminds us that these visions need to become goals,
and that for our dreams to come true, for our thoughts to become real, our goals need to be real...
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and
then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
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Thanks for spending some time with us and learning more about why thinking positively and doing the
hard work it takes to keep a positive attitude is essential to your success.
We'll leave you with this thought from Napoleon Hill...
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose,
the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
