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    Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
    Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
    Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
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    Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

    By Norman Vincent Peale

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    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Power of Positive Thinking provides a treasure trove of daily inspiration.

    To have a great day every day it helps to think great thoughts and to concentrate on at least one every day.
     
    Philosopher, self-help innovator, and minister, Norman Vincent Peale invites readers to Have a Great Day . . . every day! The influential author whose groundbreaking bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking, changed millions of lives all over the world now offers inspiration for every day of the year with an uplifting volume of positive thought to nourish our souls and spirits, and help us through even the darkest of times.
     
    From profound “thought conditioners,” accentuating the everyday positive, to “spirit lifters” devised to help us soar above our troubles, Dr. Peale’s effective affirmations are “daily vitamins” keeping us mentally and spiritually healthy throughout each and every day of the year. Each dose of Dr. Peale’s thought-provoking words of wisdom addresses a specific topic in a wide range of emotional, psychological, and physical concerns—from tapping into our inner strengths to dealing with criticism and negativity, from achieving our personal and professional goals to learning how to release tension and relax. Have a Great Day will gladden the heart with essential insights and inspirations to help each of us live every day to its fullest.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9781504023276
    Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
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    Norman Vincent Peale

    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) was a Methodist minister, motivational speaker, and bestselling author renowned for promoting positive thinking as a means to happiness and success. He served as the pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan for fifty-two years and delivered sermons nationwide on his radio and television program The Art of Living for several decades. In 1952, he published his most influential and popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking, which has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. Peale espoused optimism and faith in numerous other books, including Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Positive Results, The Power of Positive Living, and The Positive Power of Jesus Christ. Peale was the cofounder of the Horatio Alger Association, an organization committed to recognizing and fostering success in individuals who have overcome adversity. The association annually grants the memorial Norman Vincent Peale Award to a member who has made exceptional humanitarian contributions. With his wife, Ruth, the author also cofounded the Peale Center for Christian Living, as well as Guideposts—an organization that encourages positive thinking and spirituality through its non-denominational ministry services and publications with a circulation of more than 4.5 million. In 1984, Ronald Reagan awarded Peale with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor, for his contributions to theology.

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      Have a Great Day - Norman Vincent Peale

      JANUARY

      January 1

      At the New Year, we usually resolve to quit something. There is a psychological law of quitting. It’s this: The more you keep quitting, the easier quitting becomes. I know, for I’ve spent a lot of time quitting fattening foods. But I finally discovered how to quit successfully. Quit for one meal, then two, then three. By now it begins to get tough. So, you get tougher, quit the next day and the next. After a while, pride enters the picture to help you. You begin to boast about all the things you haven’t eaten. Then you point with pride to your belt, for you have tightened it to the last notch. This is called positive quitting and can be applied to anything you want to change in your life.

      January 2

      Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We all are capable of greater things than we realize. How much one actually achieves depends largely on: 1. Desire. 2. Faith. 3. Persistent effort. 4. Ability. But if you are lacking in the first three factors, your ability will not balance out the lack. So concentrate on the first three and the results will amaze you.

      January 3

      The way to success: First have a clear goal, not a fuzzy one. Sharpen this goal until it becomes specific and clearly defined in your conscious mind. Hold it there until, by the process of spiritual and intellectual osmosis of which I wrote in my introduction to this book, it seeps into your unconscious. Then you will have it because it has you. Surround this goal constantly with positive thoughts and faith. Give it positive follow-through. That is the way success is achieved.

      January 4

      To affirm a great day is a pretty sure way to have one. When awakening, get out of bed and stretch to your full height, saying aloud, This is going to be a great day. What you say strongly is a kind of command, a positive, affirmative attitude that tends to draw good results to you.

      January 5

      Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage. This attitude is a key factor in impressive careers and great living.

      January 6

      At Dunkirk, the fate of the British nation hung upon getting the fighting men off the beaches and back to England. During the most difficult hour, a colonel rushed up to General Alexander, crying, Our position is catastrophic! The general replied: Colonel, I don’t understand big words. Just get busy and get those men out of here! That’s the kind of thinking needed in crises. Do the simple necessary.

      January 7

      Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope, and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet. The Bible tells us, … And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not … (Revelation 1:17). His hand is always upon you, too.

      January 8

      As an emotion, anger is always hot. To reduce an emotion, cool it. Some people count to ten, but perhaps the first ten words of the Lord’s Prayer will work even better: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name (Matthew 6:9). Say that ten times and anger will lose its power.

      January 9

      Once, when I felt I had done an especially poor job in the pulpit on a Sunday morning, forgetting the best things I had to say and saying the poorest things, I was pretty discouraged. An old preacher, a polished orator in his day, patted me on the back. Don’t let it bother you, son, he said consolingly. Forget it. The congregation will, and you might as well make it unanimous.

      January 10

      I shall never forget Ralph Rockwell. He was the farmer on our place in the country. Ralph was a New Englander of the old school, always caring for the place as though it were his own. He said to me once, when I was presuming to give him advice: Tell you what, Dr. Peale, you do the preaching. I’ll do the farming. It is good to remember to take advice as well as give it.

      January 11

      George Reeves was a huge man, 6 feet 2, weighing 240 pounds. He was my teacher in the fifth grade. In class, he would suddenly shout, Silence. Then he would print in big letters on the blackboard the word CAN’T. Turning to the class, he would demand, And now what shall I do? Knowing what he wanted, we chanted back, Knock the T off the CAN’T. With a sweeping gesture, he would erase it, leaving the word CAN. Dusting the chalk from his fingers, he would say, "Let that be a lesson to you—you can if you think you can."

      January 12

      The place was Korea, the hour midnight. It was bitter cold, the temperature below zero. A big battle was building for the morning. A burly U.S. marine was leaning against a tank eating cold beans out of a can with a penknife. A newspaper correspondent watching him was moved to propound a philosophical question: Look, he said, if I were God and could give you what you wanted most, what would you ask for? The marine dug out another penknife of beans, thought reflectively, then said, I would ask for tomorrow. Perhaps so would we all—a great tomorrow.

      January 13

      My college classmate Judson Sayre started with nothing and became one of the most successful salesmen in our country. At dinner, in his apartment on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, we got to talking about having a great day—for he was expert at it. Come look at my mirror, he said. He had pasted a sign there which read:

      Want a great day?

      Believe a great day.

      Pray a great day.

      Deserve a great day.

      Take God with you for a great day.

      Get going and make it a great day.

      January 14

      At one time I lived in upstate New York, where the winters are quite cold. And the roads would freeze and melt and freeze again. Come springtime, they were pretty badly broken up and rutted. One early April day, I came to a bad stretch of road where someone had put up a handmade sign: Choose your rut well. You’ll be in it for the next twenty-five miles. Pretty good idea to get into the right rut, isn’t it?

      January 15

      Obviously, he was a happy man. He was Joe of Joe’s Place, a little lunch counter I found one night. There were about a dozen stools occupied, for the most part by elderly men and a couple of older women from the neighborhood. He set a steaming bowl of soup before an old man whose hands shook. Mamie made it special for you, Mr. Jones. One elderly and rather stumbling lady started to go out the door. Be careful, Mrs. Hudson, the cars go pretty fast out there. And, oh yes, look at the full moon over the river. It’s mighty pretty tonight. I sat there thinking that Joe was happy because he really loves people.

      January 16

      The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you’ll find that you can. Act as if you like a person and you’ll find a friendship.

      January 17

      Attitudes are more important than facts. Certainly, you can’t ignore a fact, but the attitude with which you approach it is all-important. The secret of life isn’t what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

      January 18

      You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

      January 19

      The best of all ways to get your mind off your own troubles is to try to help someone else with theirs. As an old Chinese proverb says, When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

      January 20

      Said William James, Believe that you possess significant reserves of health, energy, and endurance, and your belief will help create the fact.

      January 21

      A man who had suffered a succession of devastating blows said something I liked: I came through because I discovered a comeback quality had been built into me.

      January 22

      A whimsical old preacher, speaking on a familiar text, said,

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