As the author of many self-help articles, I’m writing this piece with one intention only: to help you understand that “no, you can’t always do that” and “no, you can’t control everything in your life.” This article isn’t meant to be pessimistic or negative-thinking. I wrote it to share this (very positive) truth with you:
Can You Relate to This Reader’s Problem? If so, What Would You Say? Lester (not his real name) feels bullishly battered and bludgeoned by life and wonders if he can rise from the remains of his broken spirit. Forty-one, and single, he is a graphic designer that has been laid off for the third time
Did you ever make a mistake? Of course you did. We all do. For as H.L. Wayland wrote, “The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake for four thousand years. He was a mummy in the Egyptian department of the British
Each of us hopes that our life will go the way we want it to, and that things will turn out the way we think they should. If, however, life doesn’t go the way we want it to, our first response is to try to fix the problem—to gain control of our life and to
As an author of positive-thinking articles who applies the principles of science, I know that positive thinking works—of that there is no doubt. The question is…how does it work? The title of this article asks the following question: “Is positive thinking alone enough to change our reality?” The short and sweet answer is “no.” Let
You have probably heard or read Henry Ford’s famous quote, “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” This powerful truth is hardly a new idea. About 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Virgil expressed the same thought when he wrote, “They can because they think they can.” Both men
