Positive thinking by itself is worthless.

Just for the record, positive thinking will NEVER lead to positive action. However, the flip side is true.  Positive action can lead to positive thinking.  I am so sick and tired of folks saying “Think positive”.  I am sorry, but to ‘think’ positive you have to set yourself up in an environment to be positive.  Let me digress here and give you a “picture” of what I am conveying. Let’s say an elephant leaves a steaming pile in your front yard. No matter how long you “will” yourself to think otherwise, it will always be a steaming pile.  You can work around it, ignore it, bury it, and resent the elephant that left it. No matter what you do with your “thinking”, the steaming pile remains.  However, if you resign yourself to the fact that life is messy, sometimes extremely messy, and methodically deal with the pile, you’ll actually get somewhere.  You get out a shovel, trash bags. You start scooping and disposing. Eventually, you will no longer have a steaming pile.  Now that the pile is gone, and you have dealt with it, guess what, your attitude changes.  You are happy the pile is gone, you like how your yard looks and you have dealt with it so you don’t have to try to cover it up, it is gone.  All you have to remember is that Life shows up on occasion and does what that elephant did.  If you choose to go to a solution and deal with what life has dropped in your lap you can move past the negative feelings and improve your attitude through action.  However, if you take no action you will get no results.  Positive thinking, without action, is delusional and there are medications for that.