I just wanted to add: trying to please everybody to the list. Bill Cosby once said: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody”.

Thanks, keep up the good work bro

I am changing my way of thinking right NOW! Today is 30th Dec 2008, but I will not wait until 1st Jan 2009 to implement all the good things, including my diet and exercise. Waiting for a big day to start something good is an excuse to procrastinate even more!

Thanks a lot!!

This has to be said most often by people with a negative outlook.

How you deal with life’s obstacles defines how you will live life.

Be part of the solution not the problem!

@Irania – Thanks for your comments. I totally agree that each so-called ‘fall’ is a preparative step for something much better. However, we can choose not to take that step. This is when people get stuck. All things work together for the good in the end.

good way to turn a frown upside down

1. This really works
2. It really doesn’t work

It’s true that the more you dwell on unhappy things the closer you get to depression. Unfortunately, the physical changes depression causes make positive thinking nearly impossible. Studies have actually shown that depressed people have a MORE accurate self image, view of the future, and so on than “normals”.

It’s very frustrating to those of us who make a daily effort to put this into practice not to see results for many months – but more so when people think the mentally ill are somehow mentally lazy. Without concommitant couseling and drug therapy prognosis of positive thinking alone is poor.