President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke with a Dr. James E. Enstrom of the University of California at Los Angeles. He is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he spoke with complete objectivity. Dr Enstrom’s studies indicate that actuarially speaking, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
Tag: Positive
On A Pleasing Personality
A pleasing personality is the aggregate of all the agreeable, gratifying, and likable qualities of any one individual. Believe in yourself-first and foremost! What you believe yourself to be, you are or you will become. The attitudes you transmit to others will tell more about yourself than the words you say or how you look….
On Optimism
Optimism is in reference to a positive attitude that a person might have toward other people, to life, to their work and so on. The opposite to optimistic is to be pessimistic and I have known many people on both sides of that coin. Why, because good and positive things happen to every person I…
On Tolerance
It has, sometimes, been an interesting observation of mine that when someone doesn’t believe my story, my argument, etc., they are intolerant. When I don’t believe theirs it’s either because they were lying or misunderstood the issue. Joshua Liebman said that: “Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices and habits without…
On One Day At A Time
People experiencing a tragic event in their family often get advice from friends and others, suggesting that things will get better, just take one day at a time. I was watching ‘CSI Miami’ the other night, and Horatio Caine (the star) said to a woman after experiencing a tragic event, “One day at a time…
On Positive Affirmations
I remember hearing an instructor tell a group that I was a part of that if you tell yourself something often enough, sooner or later you will believe it whether it be true or not. In his book, The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, described how positive thinking is a mental and emotional attitude…
On The Importance of Every Person
I have developed the habit of trying to attract people’s attention (mostly strangers) so that I can say hello to them. Some of them look at me as if they are thinking, ‘I don’t know you, why are you talking to me?’ My wife and I are always striking up a conversation with strangers on…
On Leaven
I remember as a young boy watching my mother kneading dough to make bread. It looked like it was hard work as she would push the dough into the table and then squeeze it together then roll it out and turn it over and do the same thing over and over. When she finally got…
On The Personal Fruits of Our Labors
There are times in our lives when we wonder if anything that we have done or accomplished in this life has had any positive effect in the lives of others, especially those of our own family. My wife and I have been most fortunate to have loving children who have often expressed their love and…
On Attitude Is Everything II
The following story was so much on point that I decided to tell it the way I found it, with only a few comments at the end. Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask…