I received A Positive You: Change Your Life with the Power of Positive Thinking by Elizabeth O’Brien as a member giveaway for Library Thing. This book will definitely change your outlook on life. A Positive you transforms your thinking from a negative to positive. This book can stop you from being a pessimist into an optimist. A positive you explains that in order to change your life, you need to change your thoughts. This book tells you to stop brooding over the major problems in your life and find ways to solve them through positive thinking. The methods used in this book have been used by rich successful, famous people for years. These methods have been kept secret for many years. Now these secrets are passed on to the reading public. ( )

A Positive You:
Change Your Life with the Power of Positive Thinking
by Elizabeth O’Brien

I truly enjoyed reviewing this blessed wonder. I loved the sprinkling of personal stories throughout this little treasure and I tried some of the suggestions given in the book to help me turn my negative thinking into a more positive focus. I found the 10 question quiz designed to tell me whether or not I am a positive thinker fascinating. I totally believe in the power self-talk and positive affirmations have to help me come from a happier, healthier place. I would recommend this cuddly e-Book to anyone wanting to turn their life around in the nicest of ways. Thanks Elizabeth for showing us a rosy picture on our journey back home.

Love & Light,

Riki Frahmann ( )

"A Positive You: Change Your Life with the Power of Positive Thinking" by Elizabeth O'Brien

This book is one good self-help motivational one! What any reader confronts in reading it, is the undeniable facts of how one can handle situations better and for me looking at the past I am sure I would have scored better if I knew better. And I must say that this is good for anyone wondering about the differences in his life and that of others especially when the other person is happier, calm and things seems to be working better. The author did a good work in showing that Life has an attractive force – meaning that the relation of a man’s thought is often seen or reflected in his action. The difference between A REALIST and A POSITIVE THINKER is also highlighted and she clearly the shows the dichotomy between the two, that is between positive thinking which is not just recognizing and handling facts rather handling these ‘realistic facts’ from a positive perspective.
The high point in my reading the book was when the author in chapter 5 asked the following question: What Would You Do If Success Were Guaranteed? I think that is the bane on which the reader reflects on positive thinking. The author makes it clear that if the reader is to see that all CAN be well despite the stumbling blocks along the way, the attitude to approach to all situations would be different.
However, the short structural enclosed sentence employed throughout the book is not too good when writing of novels such apt sentence structures are used to drive home a point and often are carried over from spoken clichés but in writing this genre, there is a prescribed format. Here the author is aiming more on wanting the reader to see his argument FOR so he tries to woo the reader, therefore using ‘too’ many apt sentences wallows and reduces the potency of arguments in written forms; should she be writing a novel – and not just a novel, but say a ROMANCE with a different audience at the back of her mind, this short sentences often applied will serve better in ‘jabbing’ the truths in a relaxed manner!
The author also tried to give a step by step approach which is very good and the interactive questions at the end of chapter is just great and an eye opener for me. It kept me reflecting on a number of events. And it is truly beneficial.
But overall, I will give it 4 out of 5 star.