Review: Are you a negative thinker?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
While reading Mike Adams' book, I was reminded of the popular 1940s song "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." The song's lyrics explain that accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative is the key to happiness. In the book, the author gives thirty tips for becoming a positive thinker. Some of my favorite tips:* Be around positive people (this may require rethinking your friendships).* Sometimes you may think negatively because you are too serious about life. Smile more, laugh, and even be silly sometimes. Laughter is the best medicine.* Accept kindness from others and pay it forward.* Disappointments and difficulties are a normal part of life.* Never allow the thoughts and attitudes from other people toward you to affect your own thinking.* Never compare yourself to other people.The author states that a negative attitude will set you up for failure. As a start to becoming a positive thinker, he urges the reader to write down their negative thoughts for a week or so in order to become more aware of their negative thinking. Then it's time to begin applying the thirty tips in the book.The book's recommendations are generally sound advice. I've heard much the same at some of the self-motivation and self-improvement seminars that I've attended. The author has distilled a lot of motivational wisdom into a short book that's very readable. I tend to be one of those "glass half empty" people with too many negative thoughts, and it's good to occasionally restart my positive thinking.