The first is believing positive thinking means always being cheerful about everything in your life. A be happy attitude. If this were true, job stress would be much less.

The second misconception is connecting positive thinking to a Nietzschean will to power mentality. This is the idea the merely belief will make things happen. If this were true, life would be simple.

Positive thinking, as this post points out, is “think[ing] about your own success and how you can get there.” The reason this is important is not because your thinking directly affects the world, but because your thinking directly affects you.

Your brain works much faster than your ability to digest everything going on in your life. If you are positive about your success, then your “instinct” will be geared toward it rather than away. Those little decisions you make that have major results will be influenced subconsciously by positive goal orientation rather than a subconscious thought that you will fail.

One thing I learned, If you want something different (result), then you have to do something different. You can’t expect to do the same thing over and over and expect things to be different.