When everything seems to crumble around you, maintaining a sunny disposition feels nearly impossible. Six years ago, 27% ...

The secret to success, we are sometimes told, is the power of positive thinking. In fact, there’s a famous book devoted to that idea called, appropriately, The Power of Positive Thinking, and there’s ...

The calendar flip to January usually triggers a collective panic to suddenly drink gallons of water and run marathons. But ...

Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking and of avoiding negative emotions. This thinking came as a bit of a surprise to me, given that the business and ...

Positive thinking is a way of looking at any circumstance and finding the good in it. Every individual has a choice to either think positive, or to allow negative thoughts control them. When thinking ...

Whether you realize it or not, the negative experiences you’ve lived through often influence your decisions. Your brain learns from difficult situations and painful memories, and these experiences get ...

Positive thinking and striving for happiness are common goals associated with self-improvement. It seems that they’re becoming more pervasive within company cultures, too, as employee happiness, ...

Put down the Botox – embracing fine lines and gray hairs could be the key to staying sharp. A new study suggests a link between happiness and health, as researchers say thinking positively about the ...

I had a nice conversation on a plane the other day with a woman who told me that she learned about the importance of positive thinking from reading self-help books. When I asked if she found this ...

“The philosophy of positive thinking means being untruthful,” Osho said. “It means being dishonest. It means seeing a certain thing and yet denying what you have seen; it means deceiving yourself and ...

What could possibly be bad about “staying hopeful” or wrong about trying to “think positively”? Coaches and experts routinely say that fixing our mind-sets can help us fix most of our problems. For ...