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Tuesday Email: The power of positive thinking
Life sucks until you ensure it doesn’t.
The most effective way to prevent life from sucking is to embrace the power of positive thinking.
What is that?
Well, maintain an optimistic attitude for one thing.
For another, deal with the bad things in life while focusing on the good in any situation.
You may think it is one of those easier-said-than-done situations, but really, it is not.
Look for the opportunities to turn a negative into a positive, turn that frown upside down.
Use the power of positive thinking to have a considerable impact on your physical and mental health.
Trust me. I’ve done it, and it works.
I grew up in an economically depressed area in a large, financially stressed family.
We were surrounded by negative information every way we turned.
Taxes went up.
The economy tanked, the cod fishery closed, and the government wasted money here, there and everywhere.
Even now, my home province in Canada is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Where’s the power of positive thinking in this story? You may be wondering.
Well, that situation gave me the incentive to leave.
Immediately after leaving the island, I found work, and I’ve never been without work since then.
Yes, I could have stayed home, gone on unemployment insurance, drank it, and grumbled like many of my childhood friends.
I chose to blaze my own trail.
I believed I could, and I did.
I still think I can, and I’m doing it.
My father told me no matter how bad you have it in life, there is always someone who has it worse.
I look at those words of wisdom and say it sucks to be them, but it’s good to be me.
That’s the power of positive thinking.
Don’t sit and wait for things to happen to you.
Get up and make them happen yourself.
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