When we suffer pain, rejection, disappointment, loss, disease, or another catastrophe, happy talk, whistling in the dark, or putting on a happy face do not work. Every cloud does not have a silver ...

Positive thinking has gotten a bad rap lately because people tend to think that it’s a way to wish yourself to success. We all know that no matter how much you wish you were a tour player, without ...

What could possibly be bad about “staying hopeful” or wrong about trying to “think positively”? Coaches and experts routinely say that fixing our mind-sets can help us fix most of our problems. For ...

We’re always told by other people to think positive. The key to success is to believe, because once you do, you can achieve your goals. Anything is possible when you rely on the power of positive ...

When we face adversity, we struggle not because we are lacking positivity, but because we lack the ability to cope with negativity. The two are not the same. The virtues of positive thinking have been ...

Scott Hirsch, CEO of Media Direct, is an internet marketing pioneer widely recognized as an expert in e-commerce and the online marketplace. You don't need me to tell you we're going through hard ...

Nowadays, positive thinking has become a popular concept, but what exactly does it imply? According to Mayo Clinic, positive thinking “doesn’t mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore ...

I had a nice conversation on a plane the other day with a woman who told me that she learned about the importance of positive thinking from reading self-help books. When I asked if she found this ...

Although the late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestselling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, which chronicled the real-life impacts of the 1996 Welfare Reform ...

When published in 1952, The Power of Positive Thinking was a progenitor of what came to be known as the “prosperity gospel” (a belief popularized by televangelists that God intends Christians to be ...

If you have a big goal, it’s only human to want to think about the best possible result — a future where you have successfully accomplished all you set you to do. But it turns out that fantasizing ...