"Positive thinking alone is unlikely to change much of anything in the physical world. You can sit there and hope, pray, project, imagine, fantasize, visualize, make up great affirmations and just about any other kind of positive thinking idea you can imagine, and not much will change - at least not without actually getting involved, without taking some form of action towards what you want more of in your life." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

We read the self help books, we go to seminars, we listen to knowledgeable people who wholeheartedly try to be of help, we check sites on the internet, we read powerful messages or stories, and it all seems to me like visiting a fortune teller, hoping we will hear something positive. - Derrick

Maybe I'm just Mr. Grumpy Pants this morning, but this article struck a nerve with me. - Derrick

I think its crap. I believe inthe power of positive thinking. If anything, being a positive person makes other people be positive too. Then things are more pleasant - Mary Carmen

positive thinking only impacts your thinking - positive DOING, actually getting off one's ass and doing something, is where the real action is - but that doesn't sell books or make good motivational posters - William Harryman

Yeah but D it all starts in your head. Sure "faith without works is dead" and all that. But you have to start somewhere. Action comes from thought. If the title of the piece was "Why Positive Thinking Alone Just Doesn't Work" I'd be all in. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

I always was a greater believer in Positive Doing ... if positive thinking worked, I would have lovely wings and could fly (among other things). - Nadine Schaeffer