Review: Thinking Positive Thoughts as a Way to Improve Your Own Life
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
“Positive Thinking: Empowering Yourself with 30 Ways to Spend 30 Days in Positive Thinking” is a short self-help book about the power of positive thinking. It explores the benefits of positive thinking (improving your life, including your friendships/relationships and overall happiness) and sets out a month’s worth of advice for employing the positive thinking in your own life. Some of the advice includes completing affirmations, choosing to be with and inspired by positive people, meditating, and considering the feelings of others in advance.I liked the book’s friendly, common-sense tone, and each of the 30 pieces of advice is very doable, especially if taken one day at a time. I especially liked the way the author reframed certain mindsets; for instance, seeing problems as having both solutions and lessons, rather than just being obstacles to overcome, is a very helpful way to look at difficulties. I also liked that the emphasis of the book was not on drawing tangible assets to yourself (like many positive thinking/law of attraction books promise); instead, the focus is on how if you’re positive, you change not only your internal thought processes but also how other people perceive you, thereby strengthening relationships. The focus was also on being kind to others and giving of yourself as a path to happiness, which is a positive and refreshing message. Recommended to those readers who enjoy self-help books and are trying to see the glass as half full.