A recent event game me the opportunity to experience the power of positive thinking. All too often we let the rigors of the day get to us and we end up caught in the mire. We easily lose sight of staying positive when the negativity around us creates an obstacle. It’s not until something big happens that we remember to put things into perspective.
When you have the opportunity, as I did, to assess whether you are taking advantage of the power of positive thinking: there are five questions you can consider to help maintain your positive focus. As we go through each question, I’ll use my recent experience as an example.

The five questions to consider are:

1. How does positive thinking fit with what I value?

2. Have I made assumptions?

3. What’s perfect about where I’m at right now?

4. What will my reaction be?

Not this article, nor many articles, not a book, nor many books can promise you positive thinking without one key requirement. You must bring to the table an open mind to weigh and qualify the information. You say your mind is open so let’s begin.

The information I am about to offer is not new. It has all been written elsewhere. But it has not been put together in this same fashion. It’s offered so that you might think about becoming a positive thinker. I’ll tell you how positive thinking works as well as why. At least in my opinion.

More than 40 years ago I was in a reading mode, strictly fact and not fiction. One book that I came across was “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. He was commissioned, in the early 1920s, by Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, to investigate the success of hundreds of American entrepreneurs. Hill’s conclusion, they all believed strongly in what they were doing. In short they were positive thinkers.

As you read this, someone in your sphere of contact, is going to begin, very soon, a journey on a path of imaginable joy and fulfillment! What are you going to be doing today, that can’t give way to join in this incredible life experience. Work? Family responsibilities? I realize the list can seem insurmountable of reasons why you can’t devote yourself to a brighter future today, however if you allow daily stress and struggles to have control over your life, your future will never be what it was meant to be. Your tomorrow, when you are going to have the time to really look into this `Law of Attraction’ phenomenon will never occur. The years will go on, but positive change will never materialize for you.