Lessons from “The Power of Positive Thinking”
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- The power of happiness
- "The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry..."
- Negative emotions rob your life of joy.
- Happiness awaits those who focus on the positive.
- Live a life of service
- "... Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others..."
- Give more than you take. Live a life of service.
- The quality of your life will happily surprise you
- Start with confidence
- Without confidence, you will think and act inferior.
- Believe in yourself and your ability to accomplish amazing things.
- Success starts with a strong belief in yourself
- The negative thinking feedback loop
- If you're worried you'll say something embarrassing.
- You'll behave in a way that makes it come true.
- Leading to more negative, self-defeating thoughts.
- Leave the feedback loop by ditching negative thinking altogether.
- Visualize your goals
- Imagine the positive outcomes you want.
- Then imagine the problems and obstacles you'll face and how you will overcome them.
- This exercise changes your thoughts and primes you for positive thinking.
- “If happiness is determined by our thoughts it is necessary to drive off the thoughts which make for depression and discouragement.”
- “The secret of a better and more successful life is to cast out those old, dead, unhealthy thoughts. Substitute for them new vital, dynamic faith thoughts. You can depend upon it—an inflow of new thought
- “A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.”
- “With sound self-confidence you can succeed.”
- “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
- “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
- “Potential ideas are in your mind. By releasing and developing these ideas you can solve your financial problem, your business situation, you can care for yourself and your family, and attain success in your ventures.”
- “Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
- “Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.”
- “Our happiness or unhappiness depends to an important degree upon the habit of mind we cultivate.”
- “You do not need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”
- “When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”
- “To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”
- “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
- “One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is actually with you and helping you.”
- “The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
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