The Power of Positive thinking, a
bestselling motivational book written by Norman Vincent Peale, is one of the best
motivational books I have read over the years. Peale’s other bestseller titled,
The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking, is another motivational book I
cherish till today.
I have also been a subscriber to PLUS, a positive thinking
magazine which Peale center for Christian Living, New York,
kept sending to me free of
charge via postal service for
years. I sought to practice what he taught in his publications. The result is
that his teachings helped me to cultivate faith in God, in myself and in life.
And this is what you need to be victorious in life.
I say confidently that no one who
practices Peale’s teaching on positive thinking will ever be frustrated,
defeated and beaten in the game of life. Not necessarily that his teaching will
make you the richest man on earth, but it will empower you face life’s
challenges and overcome them.
The impact of Peale’s teachings on me is
so massive that in July 2011, I set up this blog - Centreforvictoriousliving.com
– to share with people what I have learned from him, in order to empower people
for victorious living.
From the Shelf to the Bestseller List
The success story of The Power of
Positive Thinking is a practical demonstration of the efficacy of Peale’s
teachings. Peale completed the manuscript in 1952 and the same year, he took it
to an editor for publication. By then, it was titled, The Power of Faith. After
reading through the manuscript, the editor said that it wasn’t any good and
that Peale should rather divide the manuscript into sections or into the days
of the week.
Peale later collected his manuscript and
dumped it in a shelf in a closet. One day, he brought it out and started
cutting it into sections and putting it in boxes. Ruth Stafford Peale, his wife, discouraged
him from mutilating the manuscript. Instead, she took it to another publisher,
Myron Boardman of Prentice Hall, USA, who read it and said: “This is a very
good book, but the title isn’t good.”
He suggested that the book be titled,
“The Power of Positive Thinking” instead of “The Power of Faith,” a
phrase that is littered on the pages of the book, which Peale wasn’t conscious
of.
The Power of Positive Thinking was later published and it sold like a
hot cake worldwide. 63 years after the first printing, The Power of Positive
Thinking is still a bestseller! The best thing about The Power of
Positive Thinking is that it has helped changed lives of millions of people
and it is still changing lives.
Three lessons for Victorious Living
Let me share with you briefly three
lessons I learned from the success story of The Power of Positive Thinking:
1.
He Who Serves Never Lack
If you are out to sincerely serve
humanity, to help humanity to grow, you will never lack. Peale’s motivational
and spiritual service earned him fame and fortune. It is not how far you pursue
fame and fortune, but how far you serve humanity.
Peale’s The Power of Positive
Thinking alone fetched him millions of dollars, not even to talk of dozens
of his other books. Fame and fortune
will come, if you can focus on serving humanity by helping people solve a particular problem worldwide.
2.
Do the Best You Can
Anything worth doing is worth doing
well. When you want to embark on any worthwhile project, make sure you give it
the best you can. Peale gave the best he could in writing The Power of
Positive Thinking. Once you are convinced that you have given it the best
you could, you just have to relax. The rest will take care of itself.
3.
Don’t Let negative Opinion Destroy Your Good
Works
The fact is, just as our faces are
different, so also is our opinion and perspective about all issues of life. So,
you should not expect that people will have the same opinion about what you do.
There are people who will never see
anything good about anything. Their focus is always on the negative. Even if
they take notice of the positive aspect or the greater good about anything,
they would try to downplay it and instead, dwell MOST on the negative.
These set of people will give you a
thousand and one reasons why a particular thing will not work, but they will
not give you just one reason why a particular thing will work. You should be
mindful of this kind of people. And when such people come to express their
negative opinion, just ignore them and treat it as their own opinion and not
yours. If you are convinced that you
have given the best you could, then, what matters most to you is your own
opinion and not the opinion of any person.
Sometime ago, we featured on this blog
the story of how prolific author, James Lee Burke overcame over 111 rejections
to become an award winning author. Despite the negative opinion of over 111
experts about his novel, The Lost Get Back Boogie, Lee Burke stuck to
his own opinion about his novel. He knew he had given the best he could and
no person could tell him otherwise and he would believe.
In the end, the same novel, The Lost
Get Back Boogie, which was rejected by over 111 experts, is the same
novel that won him the Pulitzer award and also brought him fame and fortune. To
read James Lee Burke’s story that we featured on this blog some time ago, click this link: JAMES LEE BURKE’S STORY
4.
Watch Out for Golden Opportunity
For every worthwhile project, the
opportunity to bring it to limelight will come. If truly your work is meant to
better the lot of mankind, you will surely find a way of making it available
for them.
You just have to be optimistic and keep
searching. The Biblical principle of asking, seeking and knocking is relevant
in this regard. In Matthew 7:7-8, Jesus instructed: “Ask, and it shall be
given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For
every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened.”
Until I come your way soon, I urge you
to power your life with positive thinking and you will be victorious now and always!
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