Positive thinking is a great attitude to have and a healthy one.
I know some people who roll their eyes and scoff whenever anyone mentions positive thinking. They think optimism is childish and see cynicism as a mark of sophistication. You may think that way yourself, or, at the very least, I’m sure you know someone who does.
Well, that attitude could kill you! Studies have found that positive thinkers actually live longer than pessimists. Positive thinking can help with stress management. They are finding many healthy reasons to be a positive thinker.
Positive thinking is also a proven ingredient to professional success. In a University of Pennsylvania study, Dr. Martin Seligman in 1998 wrote an article entitled Learned Optimism and he found that insurance agents with a positive outlook sold 37 percent more insurance in the first two years than those with a negative outlook, and the pessimists were twice as likely to quit in the first year as were the optimists.
So, are you convinced yet?
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June 6, 2008
The power of a positive attitude has been with me since I was a child thanks to my mom. She instilled in me at an early age that the power of a positive attitude would be an important attribute for me to have.
I got a chance to use that power of a positive attitude a year ago when I took a trip to the bookstore and a book caught my eye. As I leafed through the pages, I glanced at the publisher: Wiley. I had never heard the name before, but my book coach Joan told me that the company was a well-respected name in publishing. Since I now knew that the books they published were in my area of interest, I decided to use some positive thinking and send a book proposal to Wiley.
The next day, I flew to Dallas to speak at an American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) conference. I was busy practicing my speech when my co-speaker asked me to pick up something at her booth. I was running late, so I hurried through the booths, barely looking as I rushed passed. However, one sign caught my eye: Wiley. Intrigued at the sudden emergence of the name in my life, I decided to stop and chat with the booth attendants. Though there were a lot of people clustered around the booth, the attendants were polite and helpful. When I mentioned that I was thinking of publishing with them, they cheerfully directed me to the right person within the company, also standing at the booth.
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June 9, 2008
Unique leaders have success bred in them. What does success mean to you? Do you give up when someone says NO to your idea? Is failure an option for you? I learned that unique leaders create their own success when I worked on a new idea to create a comic book.
For the past two years I have created and produced a multicultural education resources comic book for my cultural diversity training. First, people were excited that I decided to do this, but then they asked me, “How will you do it?” “How will you market it?” “Who is your reader?”
I knew that a multicultural education resources comic book would be a good cultural diversity training tool for my group because it is easy to understand and a fun way to learn a new concept.
The world is shrinking because of the Internet and media news, but peoples’ minds are still focused on their own country’s culture. A multicultural education resources comic book is a simple, way to communicate and help people learn and understand cultural diversity differences.
Even though I didn’t know how to do it, I knew I would get it done. I was passionate about the concept of multicultural diversity training through a comic book, and I was excited about learning a new field—comic book publishing.
First I created a storybook draft with actual experiences I had coming to America. My first business meeting where I had to speak English, then dining etiquette where I got invited to a dinner party, business card exchange manner, and what to wear to a business meeting.
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