THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

This book is written to suggest techniques
and to give examples which demonstrate
that you do not need to be defeated by
anything, that you can have peace of mind,
improved health, and a never-ceasing flow
of energy. In short, that your life can be full
of joy and satisfaction. Of this I have no
doubt at all for I have watched countless
persons learn and apply a system of simple
procedures that has brought about the
foregoing benefits in their lives. These
assertions, which may appear extravagant,
are based on bonafide demonstrations in
actual human experience.
Altogether too many people are defeated
by the everyday problems of life. They go
struggling, perhaps even whining, through

their days with a sense of dull resentment
at what they consider the “bad breaks” life
has given them. In a sense there may be
such a thing as “the breaks” in this life, but
there is also a spirit and method by which
we can control and even determine those
breaks. It is a pity that people should let
themselves be defeated by the problems,
cares, and difficulties of human existence,
and it is also quite unnecessary.
In saying this I certainly do not ignore or
minimize the hardships and tragedies of
the world, but neither do I allow them to
dominate. You can permit obstacles to
control your mind to the point where they
are uppermost and thus become the
dominating factors in your thought pattern.
By learning how to cast them from the
mind, by refusing to become mentally

subservient to them, and by channeling
spiritual power through your thoughts you
can rise above obstacles which ordinarily
might defeat you. By methods I shall
outline, obstacles are simply not permitted
to destroy your happiness and well-being.
You need be defeated only if you are willing
to be. This book teaches you how to “will”
not to be.
The purpose of this book is a very direct
and simple one. It makes no pretense to
literary excellence, nor does it seek to
demonstrate any unusual scholarship on
my part. This is simply a practical, direct
action, personal improvement manual. It is
written with the sole objective of helping the
reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and
worthwhile life. I thoroughly and
enthusiastically believe in certain

demonstrated and effective principles
which, when practiced, produce a
victorious life. My aim is to set them forth in
this volume in a logical, simple, and
understandable manner so that the reader
feeling a sense of need, may learn a
practical method by which he can build for
himself, with God’s help, the kind of life he
deeply desires.
If you read this book thoughtfully, carefully
absorbing its teachings, and if you will
sincerely and persistently practice the
principles and formulas set forth herein,
you can experience an amazing
improvement within yourself. By using the
techniques outlined here you can modify or
change the circumstances in which you
now live, assuming control over them
rather than continuing to be directed by

them. Your relations with other people will
improve. You will become a more popular,
esteemed, and well-liked individual. By
mastering these principles, you will enjoy a
delightful new sense of well-being. You
may attain a degree of health not hitherto
known by you and experience a new and
keen pleasure in living. You will become a
person of greater usefulness and will wield
an expanded influence.
How can I be so certain that the practice of
these principles will produce such results?