Read chapter 2 of THE SOLUTION PATH (TSP) on Positive Thinking in its entirety.  Then choose your top lesson on this chapter and post it here along with a title and an example that showcases the lesson. The example can be from the TSP book, your personal or professional life, or fictitious but fully credible. 

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Effective communicators:

Make simple and easy to follow points (in this case lessons) where all terms are defined and easy to understand.

They offer a story about each point and exemplifies why it is so important.

Finally, the summarize what they said, very simply.

That’s what I am asking you to do here. 

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An EXAMPLE (title, lesson, and example):

Title: Positive thinking and solutions

Lesson: When you think positively, you develop solutions for your problems

Example: When I completed my doctoral degree, the economy was facing a downturn.  There were hardly any jobs and competition was fierce.  I decided to forge forward anyway.  I focused on the very clients who needed services due to the downturn. As a result, I had the great opportunity of partnering with dozens of clients helping them to reenergize their companies. 

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Note that your example must be different than the one I offered here or you will lose all the points on this discussion. 

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Important! Your lessons MUST be:

Simple points rather than multiple/complex point themes that need lots of time to be explained (like facilitator, facilitation, personality type etc)

Clear with all terms defined 

It is even better if your lessons are:

Actionable (if X or when X, then Y)

Stated in the affirmative (what you do rather what you don’t do)

Positive ThinkingTasos Sioukas, PhDThe Believing Game•Described first by author and professor, Peter Elbow•Looking at problem and rather than concentrating on its negative/uncomfortable aspects: “This is a great opportunity. We can do so much to turn things around. We will create something new and exciting and learn a lot in the process.”????????…The Believing Game: Napoleon Hill•Believing is synonymous with having faith. •“The chemist of the mind”•Consciously believing in positive possibilities gets our subconscious mind to cooperate while stopping to sabotage our efforts. •Believing propels us to start developing solutions consciously and subconsciously. The Believing Game•Franklin Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”•Buddha: “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world”.•Corollary: What you focus on is what you draw.•Henry Ford: “If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you are right.”????????…So if you are what you think, your thoughts had better be positive.Research results•More than 500 research studies affirm that positive thinking is one of the most significant factors leading to innovative solutions (Sutton 2002).•Pygmalion, the mythological sculptor•Pygmalion effect in Management: When you think that your subordinates /colleagues/ superiors will support you/perform for you and you demonstrate it to them with your behavior and actions, they do.  The opposite is also true. Research results continued•Placebo effect in medicine and medical research•Research with reading•Research with learning mathematicsFearDeepest level of fear: worries of failureFaces of fear•Denial•Resisting change•Doubting•Placing blame   Others or yourselfIdentifying your fears•What have you been afraid of in the past? •What happened?•What did you learn? •Current problems: What are you afraid of?Most fears don’t come true•Susan Jeffers: “Our most negative and hidden worries have only a 10% chance of coming true.”•Center for Creative Leadership research with leaders: “Leaders learn the most and make their greatest strides in their careers when they face challenges and even hardships. “????????…What are you afraid of? Positive Action Toolbox•Taking your positive inventory•What would you do if you were not afraid?•Acting as if you have already created an opportunity•Thinking abundantly•Repeating affirmations•Going inward•Surrounding yourself with positive people and positive books