Are You a Positive Thinker

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31st July 2011 Are YOU a Positive Thinker? Written by Mike George There are many who swear by the power of Positive Thinking. They ‘walk their talk’ and seem to be able to always look and live on the bright side of life. There are others who ‘talk the talk’ of positive thinking who are always saying how good and how important it is to be positive about everything. And yet it’s obviously not working for them as they frequently lapse into a faintly negative observation or evaluation. Possibly because they can’t yet tell the difference between ‘the positive’ and ‘the negative’ or they are not aware when they are not being as positive as they think! And then there are the skeptics who pooh pooh all this positive thinking stuff as ‘fluff’, as pie in the sky, as nothing more than unhappy people trying to make themselves happier because someone convinced them it was the right thing to do. Then there are those who think they are positive thinkers but don’t realise they are not. They are a little like those who say they are vegetarian but still eat fish, or even a little white meat…but only occasionally of course! If any of the following behaviours are still in our ‘behavior repertoire’, even just occasionally, they are the signals that we are still not authentic positive thinkers. We can’t be a Positive Thinker as long as we are CRITICAL. To criticize is to attack. It is an intention to highlight what, in one’s own personal perception, was wrong/bad/incompetent etc. And thereby hangs the clue - ‘ones personal perception’ – for as long as we are creating such negative perceptions, no matter how much or how hard we try to justify their ‘trueness’ we are not able to ‘think’ positively. If there is only the slightest trace of ENVY towards another it would be difficult to be positive as we create a subtle resentment towards those who seem to have more of what

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