The Power of Positive Thinking
January 31, 2013
Many years ago as a young man I read
Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Thinking.
Now my background of being a poor farm boy
and being nurtured by parents who had never had the opportunity to look up
beyond the horizon, found me on a plain of disassociation. I found it hard
to sign on with what Norman was teaching, I was very limited.
One of my favorite pass times was to make excuses for our
poverty and spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself. I was given the
impression that the rich folks became rich through their dishonest business
dealings or they inherited their wealth.
It was hard for me to believe that just by thinking success you
could trigger the mind to create a successful avenue to achieve success. I had
no idea that a negative approach to an idea would actually produce a negative
outcome.
Thanks to time and natural evolution of life beating up on me I
was eventually driven to a mind change.
Things are better now. My thinking has made great strides
of improvement. I now consider myself to be a product of positive self,
development. It’s a process that should never end.
I appreciate the insight of those great authors who had the
vision and the perseverance to gain the knowledge of success principals and
then write the down for our good. These great books of THINK and grow rich, The
Power of Positive THINKING, and The Magic of THINKING Big all has the word
THINK in them.
THINKING must have a lot to do with success and a happy life.
I hope my thought of the day will help someone who may have come
from similar backgrounds as myself. You can have what you think about, either
way, negative or positive. Naturally it’s best to choose positive.
Love You
Taylor Thayne
