Stay Positive

There are two ways to look at the world: the benevolent way or the malevolent way. People with a malevolent or negative worldview take a victim stance, seeing life as a continuous succession of problems and a process of unfairness and oppression. They can’t move forward, don’t expect a lot and don’t get much. When things go wrong, they shrug their shoulders and passively accept that this is the way life is and there isn’t anything they can do to make it better.
On the other hand, people who practice positive thinking see the world around them as filled with opportunities and possibilities. They believe that everything happens as part of a great process designed to make them successful and happy. They approach their lives, their work, and their relationships with optimism, cheerfulness, and a general attitude of positive thinking and expectations. They stay positive, expect a lot and are seldom disappointed.
Here is another rule: “If you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life”  And since you can change the quality of your thinking almost infinitely, there are no limits on how you can change and improve every part of your life, in any direction you want to go.
There is a lot of talk today about “positive thinking,” and I think that positive thinking is very important.  It is much better for you to think positively about yourself and your possibilities than for you to think negatively.  But the danger is that positive thinking can quickly turn into positive wishing and hoping.  Positive wishing and hoping can turn a person into a very optimistic and happy failure.  Abraham Mallow said that the story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short, and settling for far less than that for which they are capable.  Don’t let this happen to you.