Just the other day, I was reading a book by reknown spiritual healer Dr. Doreen Virtue, entitled "The Light Worker's Way". In it, Doreen gave an autobiography about how she went through many phases in her life, from the lowest point with her emotionally abusive husband, to the enlightening discovery of her purpose in Life as a healer, which lead to her spiritual and financial fulfillment. What I found most interesting was this: regardless of how high or low she was in her life, she stayed committed to what she described as "projecting positive thoughts".

I feel it's really something to be able to commit to thinking positive, simply because it's easy not to.

Up till now, many of us would have already heard of the concept of "thinking positive". In fact, for those of us who's been diligently pursuing a better or more successful life, we'd have heard more than half a dozen new age experts and success gurus talk about the same thing: "Think good thoughts and good things will happen to you!"

Yet it's easy to lose faith in doing this. I know because that was how I felt in the early years of my Unicity business, where the odds were always against me. I'd have no money, little moral support from my family and friends, and close to zero know-how on how to run my new franchise. I'd think positive for a while, and when nothing tangible seems to happen, I give up, fall into depression, and my business goes into a standstill for weeks into months.

I'm glad I still had the good sense not to fall-out altogether!

However, when I think back at the various spurts of success I've experienced over the years, I realise that they all came as a result of positive thought - the faith to believe that things will happen the way I want, some way or another. Often I don't know how it's going to happen, but for some reason, when I'm in that "positive" mood, things just happen. It's uncanny.

My recent success in qualifying as a top recruiter in the Business Builders Club was a result of a positive mindset in the face of a bad start; bringing together my present, bubbly board members for my Rotaract Club, the Rotaract Club of Temasek, also came in the face of opposition. But I saw it to the end because I wanted it to happen, and believed that it can happen.

Just last night, Team Rich's top leader Nancy Long described a practice that determines why she's so far ahead of me: she makes it a point, a commitment, to feed herself with positive thoughts when she wakes up in the morning, and makes sure she ends her day with a good book so that she can sleep on positive thoughts as she sleeps. It's so simple! I realised that lately, with the humdrum of all the things that I've had to do, I'm beginning to forget all that, and little pieces of me are turning cynical.

And if that helps me to commit to "projecting positive thoughts" like Dr. Doreen Virtue and grow in Life, that's exactly what I'll do!

How has positive thinking helped you succeed in the past?
Have you been thinking positive thoughts lately? :)