When everything seems to crumble around you, maintaining a sunny disposition feels nearly impossible. Six years ago, 27% ...

The secret to success, we are sometimes told, is the power of positive thinking. In fact, there’s a famous book devoted to that idea called, appropriately, The Power of Positive Thinking, and there’s ...

Positive thinking is a way of looking at any circumstance and finding the good in it. Every individual has a choice to either think positive, or to allow negative thoughts control them. When thinking ...

How can you be positive, when there’s nothing to be positive about? That was the unexpected question facing Cyndie Spiegel, who had built a public persona around “positive psychology” — the scientific ...

The calendar flip to January usually triggers a collective panic to suddenly drink gallons of water and run marathons. But ...

Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking and of avoiding negative emotions. This thinking came as a bit of a surprise to me, given that the business and ...

When we face adversity, we struggle not because we are lacking positivity, but because we lack the ability to cope with negativity. The two are not the same. The virtues of positive thinking have been ...

Positive thinking and striving for happiness are common goals associated with self-improvement. It seems that they’re becoming more pervasive within company cultures, too, as employee happiness, ...

Put down the Botox – embracing fine lines and gray hairs could be the key to staying sharp. A new study suggests a link between happiness and health, as researchers say thinking positively about the ...

What could possibly be bad about “staying hopeful” or wrong about trying to “think positively”? Coaches and experts routinely say that fixing our mind-sets can help us fix most of our problems. For ...

I had a nice conversation on a plane the other day with a woman who told me that she learned about the importance of positive thinking from reading self-help books. When I asked if she found this ...

Toxic positivity has earned a lot of backlash recently. Of course, we shouldn’t berate ourselves with negative self-talk, and there’s value in encouraging ourselves when fearful (I routinely utter, “I ...