Positive thinking works because it gets to the root of success: taking back your power and mastering your own destiny. The power of positive thinking doesn’t come from magic, it comes from a shift to a more effective mental state and the powerful action that it inspires.

It’s effective for many rational and powerful reasons – when you use it to get in the driver’s seat of your own life.

via A Rational Defense of Positive Thinking: It’s Not Magic, It’s Effective « Marie Wetmore.

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