In an attempt to revive this blog, I’m going to be posting a series of inspirational quotes, or positive affirmations. Reading and thinking positive things can be empowering, and help you dream big and achieve even bigger.

Here is one of my favorite positive affirmations:

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself
- Unknown

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Interestingly enough, unlike many other “self-help” crazes, there are countless successful people using the same principles and attribute their happiness and success to the strategies taught in ‘the secret’.

James Arthur Ray, author of ‘harmonic wealth’ says you have to think, feel and act what you would like to achieve. A video of an interview with James Arthur Ray is posted below:

There are cases where depression is related to a sense of not having achieved what one wants to achieved, or acquired what one wants to acquire. Thus, for many people being depressed is related to a sense of failure. Whether “failure” preceded depression, or feelings of failure are a symptom of depression is like asking which one came first: the chicken or the egg. In this case, the answer is highly personal.

‘Lighten up!’
‘Think positive!’
… and ‘it could always be worse’

Just some of the ‘positive encouragement’ thrown at negative people. Thousands of books have been written about ‘positive thinking’, and if we are to believe ‘the secret’, you are a few positive thoughts away from wealth, success and delirious happiness.