Positive psychology programmes often recommend patients activities like “gratitude journaling” (writing down the things one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...