Pushkin.

Now what I want to talk to you about tonight is why positive thinkers get positive results.

And they do too, that's for sure.

Pastor Norman Vincent Peale officiated Donald Trump's first marriage, but that's not his

biggest claimed fame.

Take charge of your thoughts you can do what you will.

Peale is famous for his 1952 book, The Power of Positive Thinking.

Peale was one of the first to argue for the power of positive thought.

The idea that if you get rid of your negativity and crush all your worries about the obstacles

in your path, then things will work out just the way you hoped they would.

The concept was simple and really appealing.

Usually visualize a great job or the perfect marriage and it will happen.

But Peale says if you think about the pitfalls you could meet along the way, then they'll

appear.

You'll be punished for your pessimism.

Peale you can destroy yourself or you can create yourself by the manner and quality of

your thoughts.

Peale's idea that the path to happiness was in our heads took a troubled postwar American

public by storm.

The power of positive thinking remained on the bestseller list for 186 weeks and was

translated into 15 different languages.

And on this basis and by this method, positive thinkers always get positive results.

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