书名：Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive

作者：Jack Canfield；Mark Victor Hansen 
出版社名称：Backlist
出版时间：2010
语种：英文 
ISBN：9781935096566
商品尺寸：14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：432（以实物为准）

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阅读Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive这本书，你将会收获：
1、温暖的心灵慰藉——多位走过逆境的亲历者，告诉我们如何找寻到逆转人生的力量；绝望中的人并不孤单，只要有生存的理由，希望就不会消失。
2、实用的人生智慧——每一次跌倒和挫折，都教会我们如何更好地成长，并让我们收获更多的智慧和力量。
3、励志的成长体验——书中精选多篇发生在困厄时期的励志故事，给你穿越黑暗的内在能量，助你回归生活的正轨，继续精彩的征程。
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive will inspire and uplift readers with its stories of optimism, faith, and strength. In bad times, and good, readers will be heartened to keep a positive attitude. A great start to the New Year.

Every cloud has a silver lining. And the stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive will encourage readers to stay positive, because there is always a bright side. This book continues Chicken Soup for the Soul’s focus on inspiration and hope, reminding us that each day holds something to be thankful for.

Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Health Challenges
Every Day is Special
Role Models
Counting Your Blessings
Overcoming Adversity
Attitude Adjustments
Silver Linings
Moving Forward
Gratitude

I didn’t have an answer because I felt exactly the same way.
We were sitting in our family room that morning, sipping our coffee. Cindy had just suffered a major setback in her real estate work. Another agent had done something unethical, cutting her out of a commission she’d earned. It looked like things were heading toward litigation, with all the attendant stress.
And I, a writer of thrillers, was facing the biggest hurdle of my career—a jump to a new market that was anything but guaranteed.
So we sat there for a moment in silence, and then this popped out of my mouth. “We have to be more Norman Vincent Peale-ish.”
I hadn’t mentioned his name in awhile, but now it seemed exactly right. Because once, some thirty years before, his words delivered me from a very dark time in my life.
I was acting then, living in Hollywood, working sporadically, auditioning, going through the rounds. If there’s any profession that is full of defeats, it’s acting. Rejection is your constant companion, doubt your chatty next-door neighbor.
One dismal summer day in 1979 I was standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. I’d just come from an audition and was heading back to my apartment. I paused on the most famous crossroads in Hollywood as a bus drove by and spewed a stream of black exhaust my way. A wave of despair washed over me. What was the point of all this? Like in the old Peggy Lee song, I wondered, “Is that all there is?”
Feeling more than a little desperate, I walked down to Pickwick Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard. I went to the religion section, thinking maybe what I needed was a recovery of my faith.
After high school, I’d gone on to college, it wasn’t long before I was into many of the things I’d heard happen at “party schools.” Sundays were not for church, but sitting at the beach drinking beer. Now, three years removed from graduation, I was hoping that I could find in a book some relief for the darkness I felt crushing my spirit.
As I scanned the titles I saw the name Norman Vincent Peale featured prominently. I’d seen the movie One Man’s Way, the biopic about Dr. Peale. Well, I reasoned, they made a movie about the guy; he must have something going on.