Comments on: A Reflection on Positive Thinking http://www.pacc.org/blog/2008/09/03/a-reflection-on-positive-thinking/ Looking with non-artificial intelligence Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:32:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Gaylord Briley http://www.pacc.org/blog/2008/09/03/a-reflection-on-positive-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Gaylord Briley Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:20:14 +0000 http://www.pacc.org/blog/2008/09/03/a-reflection-on-positive-thinking/#comment-320 Dear Lewis, For more than a year I've had Google download on me whatever got published the day before on the subject of "Positive Thinking." Much of it is marginal. I've collected a lot of wistful wannabe stuff that misses totally the actual reasons God gave us a PT gift in the first place. It is refreshing to find a silver thread of sanity — like yours — running through today's download. For 18 years (216 months) I flew to New York to spend 2 days each month working with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (and Ruth, his wife) on projects and appeal letters that would raise the money they needed to run their several spiritual charities. They had been at it 25 years when I came along, and had raised $1 million only once, two years before I came. In our 18 years we raised a grand total of close to $250 million — and they did a mighty work with it! (For NVP never took a penny of the funds for himself or his family. All was devoted to the causes we promoted.) I'm shortly to be on the Web regularly myself. You may want to look for an RSS when I do. Meanwhile Google "Gaylord Briley" (use the quotes) on the Web and check me out. Or look for a book I wrote which recently was selling on Amazon and eBay for as much as $150 to $200 (vs its normal price of $13!) Some few thousand copies vanished from my distributor's hands and suddenly were selling in the UK, Germany, France and who-knows-where else, for outrageous sums! The title: "Pray & Grow Rich." No "The Secret" sort of content either. The book explores the entire Biblical basis of Positive Thinking. If you need a copy, I can send one. Blessings on you! Gaylord Briley, director The Christian Motivational Ministry Dear Lewis,

For more than a year I’ve had Google download on me whatever got published the day before on the subject of “Positive Thinking.” Much of it is marginal.

I’ve collected a lot of wistful wannabe stuff that misses totally the actual reasons God gave us a PT gift in the first place. It is refreshing to find a silver thread of sanity — like yours — running through today’s download.

For 18 years (216 months) I flew to New York to spend 2 days each month working with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (and Ruth, his wife) on projects and appeal letters that would raise the money they needed to run their several spiritual charities. They had been at it 25 years when I came along, and had raised $1 million only once, two years before I came.

In our 18 years we raised a grand total of close to $250 million — and they did a mighty work with it! (For NVP never took a penny of the funds for himself or his family. All was devoted to the causes we promoted.)

I’m shortly to be on the Web regularly myself. You may want to look for an RSS when I do. Meanwhile Google “Gaylord Briley” (use the quotes) on the Web and check me out. Or look for a book I wrote which recently was selling on Amazon and eBay for as much as $150 to $200 (vs its normal price of $13!) Some few thousand copies vanished from my distributor’s hands and suddenly were selling in the UK, Germany, France and who-knows-where else, for outrageous sums! The title: “Pray & Grow Rich.” No “The Secret” sort of content either. The book explores the entire Biblical basis of Positive Thinking.

If you need a copy, I can send one. Blessings on you!

Gaylord Briley, director
The Christian Motivational Ministry

]]> By: mike http://www.pacc.org/blog/2008/09/03/a-reflection-on-positive-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-319 mike Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:04:38 +0000 http://www.pacc.org/blog/2008/09/03/a-reflection-on-positive-thinking/#comment-319 Good post. I am a CPA and financial planner that specializes in helping families save money when making funeral arrangements. While the work can certainly be emotional, one of the greatest rewards is that each day I reminded just how precious life is. I help people save money when making funeral arrangements. They need me. They help me pay attention to what’s more important in life. I need them. It's a choice I make. I could choose to focus on the mundane, negative, or emotionally-draining aspects of my day, but I choose to focus on the positve, uplifting aspects. It makes my work, and life, more meaningful. Mike...from http://www.funeral-tips.com. Good post.

I am a CPA and financial planner that specializes in helping families save money when making funeral arrangements. While the work can certainly be emotional, one of the greatest rewards is that each day I reminded just how precious life is.

I help people save money when making funeral arrangements. They need me.

They help me pay attention to what’s more important in life. I need them.

It’s a choice I make. I could choose to focus on the mundane, negative, or emotionally-draining aspects of my day, but I choose to focus on the positve, uplifting aspects. It makes my work, and life, more meaningful.

Mike…from http://www.funeral-tips.com.

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