Three ways to become a more positive thinker

I have been recently getting into Norman Vincent Peale’s books, who as you know, is the best selling author of The Power of Positive Thinking. He is the author of numerous books on positive thinking and while I have not dug through all of his books, I wanted to summarize what I have learned so far into easy, actionable strategies for anyone to incorporate into their lives.

Positive thinking has been one of the key factors in my career and life. If you know me, it would be hard to imagine that more than ten years ago, I was an incredibly negative thinker. But it’s true! I thought negatively about my life and about the things that were happening to me.

Okay, so you want to become a more positive thinker — let me share three things that I use in my life to become more positive:

Think positive thoughts

James Altucher, one of my favourite authors and thinkers has a 5 x 5 rule. One of those rules, you probably already know: you are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. There’s another rule too that you may not have heard: you are the average of the five thoughts that you think about the most. This means that if you surround yourself with, think, and absorb negative things in your life, you will start to become more negative.