Positive thinking is an attitude where you focus on the bright side of things and only expect positive results. By thinking positive thoughts, we end up attracting positive outcomes (via the law of attraction), taking positive actions, tackling obstacles & challenges with ease and living a happier life.
Advice from Masters – Quotes & Tips on Positive Thinking
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.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Norman Vincent Peale – Author – The Power of Positive Thinking
Memory bank: Deposit only positive thoughts in your memory bank. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank.
Mental broadcasting station: Your mind is a mental broadcasting station. This broadcasting system transmits messages to you on two equally powerful channels: Channel P (positive) and Channel N (negative).
David J Schwartz – The Magic of Thinking Big
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar – Author – The Secrets to Closing a Sale
Top 7 Books that explain the power of positive thinking and how to develop the same
Positive thinking helps overcome barriers, find solutions and keep up your motivation as the inevitable obstacles on your path to success arise. These books help you understand the power of positive thinking and how to best harness your thoughts to help you succeed.
The Power of Positive Thinking
Authors: Norman Vincent Peale,
This legendary book will teach you to be kinder to yourself, to live a worry-free life, to have undying belief that you can do everything you want to, and spark up the fire of determination in your heart. Dr. Paele provides all the tools you require to transform your professional and personal life.
What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
Authors: Shad Helmstetter,
You’re always talking to yourself, sometimes even without realizing that you are. But this self-talk is often negative and crippling. It is the reason why you aren’t where you are destined to be in life. Shad Helmstetter puts an end to this and gives you five life-changing levels of self-talk so that you can reclaim your life from the shackles of negativity.
Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive
Authors: Barbara L. Fredrickson,
Barbara L. Fredrickson reveals that each person has their own source of positivity. In this book, she shows you how you can discover that source and make the most of it. She claims that positivity is the secret to healthier relationships in your personal life and at work. It is also a cure for depression and can give you a truly happier life.
Before Happiness: How Creating a Positive Reality First Amplifies Your Levels of Happiness and Success
Authors: Shawn Achor,
Shawn Achor introduces a new kind of energy that cannot be put out or destroyed — positivity. Before you feel happiness or experience success in life, you have to start working on the two. In order to do that, you have to change your perception of the world and believe that what you desire is closer to you than you can imagine. Achor provides guidelines that will do just that.
A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
Authors: Will Bowen,
What you are going to find out in A Complaint Free World will change your life and even the lives of those around you. Bowen reveals the truth about complaining and how much it sucks out of your energy. He also shows you how you can rewire your brain to quit this unconscious habit!
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Authors: Jon Gordon,Kenneth H. Blanchard
Jon Gordon’s Energy Bus will take you on an unforgettable ride that will transform your life. He provides 10 principles that can change your attitude into one that is optimistic and strategic — the kind of attitude that guarantees success. This book will help you fix all the problems you face in your workplace, in your home and even in your head!
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Authors: Martin E.P. Seligman,
Seligman provides profound insight into the cognition behind optimism. His strategies are suitable for readers of all jobs and ages. They will help you re-instil faith in yourself, and provide remarkable benefits such as a better immune system, a way to combat depression and overall, a happy and fulfilling life.
Videos – Positive Thinking
The Power of Positive Thinking
Optimistic and positive people think differently than everyone else and this affects every facet of their lives. In this video, Brian Tracy shares with you how positive thinking works and how you too can develop a positive mindset.
Other concepts on Thinking
Negativity
Negativity is the polar opposite of positive thinking. It’s a tendency to focus on negative thoughts – the problems, the obstacles, their failures, the situation and so on. Negativity leads to problems where others see solutions and an inability to accomplish anything in life, due to all the reasons why it cannot be done.
Dominate – Don’t Compete
People who truly succeed big, never try to compete – they choose instead to dominate their particular niche and become known as the ‘go-to’ person or company for those specific requirements. Domination allows you to never have to compete on price, not get involved in feature wars and bring along free marketing.
Paradigms
Paradigms are a standard, a perspective, concepts or a set of ideas that affect the way we perceive the world. Our reality is often based more on the paradigms that we have grown up with (based on our families, society and education), than fundamental reality itself with big implications for all self-improvement efforts.