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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
BY:CHANDRA SEKHAR………… B824
About The Book
• The Power of Positive Thinking
• Publishers: Ballantine Books
• Pages:242
• year:1952
• ISBN number- 0449911470
• Reissue edition (August 1, 1996)
• Seventeen chapters
Author’s Details
• Name of the author: Norman Vincent Peale
• Occupation – professional speaker, minister
• May 31, 1898 - December 24, 1993
Other Books of Author
• Positive Thinking Every Day
• Six Attitudes For Winners
• You Can If You Think You Can
• The Power Of Positive Thinking
• The Positive Way To Change Your Life
• Courage And Confidence
Chapters
• Believe in Yourself
• Try Prayer Power
• How to Have Constant Energy
• How to Create your Own Happiness
Chapters
• Power to Solve Personal Problems
• How to use Faith in Healing
• When Vitality Sags, Try This
• Inflow of new Thoughts can Remake You
Chapters
• Relax for Easy Power
• How to get People to Like You
• Prescription For Heartache
• How to Draw Upon That Higher Power
Trust Yourself
• “You cannot be successful or happy without confidence in your
own powers & abilities.”
• Develop self-confidence
• Develop creative faith
• If you succeed it will be fine otherwise there will be another
day
• when you wake up in the morning you have two choices –to be
happy -to be unhappy
The life of strain is difficult
• The secret to a mind full of peace lies in your mental
attitude
• Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
• Silence is the element in which great things fashioned
themselves together
• Thinking a carefully selected series of peaceful
thoughts
Create Your Own Happiness
• Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy?– YOU DO
• Many of us manufacturing our own unhappiness
• Unhappiness is the most common state
of mind
Learn the magic of believing
• Think positively yourself about everything
• Things will be very different for you if you
believe in yourself
• Things will become better when you expect best
• Expecting the best means that you put your
whole heart into what you want to accomplish
Have Faith In Yourself
• Hate and resentment, fear and guilt are closely related to mental and physical health
• Believe in I can do. Have faith in yourself
Highlights of the Book• Believe in yourself, Have faith in your abilities
• You have to create your own happiness
• The way to happiness:
– Keep your heart free from hate
– Keep your mind free from worry
– Live simple
– Expect little, Give Much