Maximum Strength Positive Thinking: Recent Episodes
Dr. David Abbott M.D.
Truth is the only thing that leads to freedom. Everything else ties you up in knots and puts you into bondage.
My emotional mind is an eternal skeptic and must be shown the truth many times before it will believe.
Prayer is my ultimate reality check. I can fool some of the people some of the time, I can fool myself some of the time, but I cannot fool God.
Dreams are God's way of pointing out that I have the ability to achieve excellence in my life.
God already loves me from the top of my head to the tip of my toes, and it doesn't get any better than that.
Practical faith comes in two types. The first makes it possible for me to achieve excellence, and the second makes me into a new person.
Faith isn't something I must have before I move in the direction of my dreams. Instead, it's something that develops after I start moving.
Faith isn't about size. It's about stepping out in the direction of my dreams regardless of the consequences.
God is love and works by love, and by nothing else than love. The power and presence of God in the world is love.
The power and presence of God in the world is love. Whenever I see love, I see God's hand at work.
I will not let the world clip my wings or force me into its mold. I will fly like an eagle.
Mark Twain remarked that life doesn't consist so much of facts and events. Instead, it consists mainly of the storm of thoughts blowing endlessly through my mind.
When adversity pays an unwelcome visit, I modify my plans, stick to my purpose, and never surrender my dreams.
Guilt is a hazardous substance, and I must handle it with care. Guilt has the wrong focus.
The Life Long Disoriented are experts in time travel, and they do it all the time. They get into their time machines and live either in the past or the future.
My chance of being perfect is zero, and if I am smart, I won't criticize other people who are not perfect.
God's love is still the most powerful force in the universe, and it will blow the maze of sin to smithereens.
To become a loving person, I must do the things that loving people do. I have to do it before I feel it.
Resentment makes me sick. It takes a bad situation and makes it worse. Forgiveness is the cure for resentment.
I will not allow what I have or don't have to ruin my life. I will live as if I am a thankful person.
I can afford to cut a great deal of slack to the people in my life. They need all the help they can get, and so do I.
There is only one time I should quit. When what I am doing isn't working, it's time to try a new strategy.
Until I understand God's love, I will never know what God is like. I must see myself through God's eyes and learn the facts of love.
What I put into my mind becomes my roadmap for life. Every word I speak takes me to a specific destination.
God speaks all the time, but the only way to hear his voice of love is to become silent and listen.
I must never fall in love with money. Loving money is a pathetic misdirection of my affections.
Wherever I am, I can push my mind in a positive direction and listen to the sound of my dreams.
My goals should be big enough to strongly attract me and small enough that their attainment is possible.
When I concentrate on a positive future, I automatically leave my negative past behind.
I keep moving in the direction of my dreams regardless of the outcomes that happen along the way.
Good role models are a blessing that lasts three lifetimes. Their positive effect is passed on to the next two generations.
Modeling is the recipe for achievement. Modeling starts me on the path of success using a plan that is proven to work.
In the beginner's mind there are many ways to reach an objective, but in the expert's mind there is only one best way.
The amount of right action I take each day determines how fast I progress toward my goals. The more right action I take, the sooner I reach my dreams
I associate with thoughts that empower me and dissociate from those that steal my dreams.
I can make my mind as positive as I want. All I need to do is write it thought by thought.
When I present a photograph to my brain, the picture goes straight into my memory banks and remains forever.
No event is so bad that I cannot make something good come out of it. My challenge is to take what happens and make it into something beautiful.
Four Laws of Focus give me the leverage I need to have a consistently positive mind. A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind.
Memorization gives me the power to change who I am by putting positive things into my mind.
The forgiveness that I send to others comes multiplied back to me. The forgiving heart is the forgiven heart.
Resentful thoughts are covered in mental superglue. Once I think them, they stick in my mind.
Life is a laboratory for testing the limitations found in my mind. I never know if my limitations are real until I test them.
Limiting thoughts are a disguised form of negation. They are a way that I say no to life while pretending that life is saying no to me.
Failure is a test, and if I keep moving in the direction of my dreams, I pass the test.
Negative thoughts are either a call to more negative thoughts or a call to positive action.
No matter what you do, you must do it with all your mind, all your heart, and all your strength. You must say yes to life with all that is in you.
Focus gives me powerful leverage over my mind. When I focus on a thought, it forces my mind to look in the direction of that thought.
At the moment of change, there is a shift in my beliefs about who I am and what I can do with my life.
Change happens when I think differently that I have always thought and act differently than I have always acted.
I am the only one who can change my life, because I am the only one who can change the way I think.
If I wait until everything is perfect, and I know exactly what I'm doing, I will never live my dreams.
Change finally happens when I am ready to change. Change takes a long time, because I take so much time getting ready.
Positive change isn't a matter of the will. Rather, it's a matter of being willing to do whatever it takes.
Dreams get me up in the morning and carry me through the day. They keep me going when the going gets tough.
When God created my mind, He designed it to run most efficiently using a Positive Operating System.
No amount of positive thinking will take something bad and turn it into something good. Nevertheless, positive thinking will turn it into something better.
The instant that I put positive things into my mind is the exact moment that my life will improve.
Ambivalence is the mortal enemy of my dreams. Unless I am committed to them with all my mind, heart, and strength, I will not be willing to do whatever it takes to make them happen.
I will live as if I am a great person. I will practice being great each day of my life.
Empowering beliefs increase my strength and energy. They get me going and keep me going when the going gets tough.
Resourceful beliefs remind me that I have the ability to achieve excellence in at least one area of my life.
I will live the rest of my life as if I am a great person. I will live as if my dreams are possible, and work each day to make them happen.