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Endless Persistence


Never underestimate the power of endless persistence.

When you feel like quitting, endless persistence gets the job done.

The battle's not to the best and the brightest; it's the most persistent who prevails.

If you know who you are and where you are going, then endless persistence becomes your best friend. It sticks beside you through thick and thin, and makes a way when everyone tells you there is no way.

Achiever are not more talented or brilliant than those who do not reach their dreams. However, they do possess one quality the rest of the world lacks: they are endlessly persistent in pursuing their dreams. They are willing to do whatever it takes to make their dreams come true.

Endless persistence separates the daydreamers from the doers.

I am an Unstoppable, Consistently Positive, Endlessly Persistent, Doer of Dreams.

I am willing to do whatever it takes to make them happen.

No matter how long it takes, or how many times I fail, I will make my dreams come true.

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I AM WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES


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Positive change isn’t a matter of the will. Rather, it’s a matter of being willing to do whatever it takes.

When I am not willing, no matter how much I say I want to change, it will not happen. I am only playing a word game, and everyone understands what I am saying.

The difference between the will and being willing is great.

Making my dreams come true doesn’t require an iron will.

I don’t need an indomitable spirit before I start the journey. I don’t need to spend years pumping myself up in preparation for the moment that will takes over, sweeps me off my feet, and carries me to total victory. That is a fairy tale of the will. No one has a mountain of will that sweeps away all opposition.

I don’t need a massive will to succeed.

I do need a willingness to do whatever is required to make my dreams happen.

Although I don’t have an iron will, I do have a willingness to work around, go through, over, or under whatever obstacles get in the way.

This is a quiet willingness. Eloquent speeches of dramatic resolve aren’t part of the script. I simply get on with the business of living my dreams.

Every day I focus on my purpose and act on my plan, because I am willing to do whatever it takes to make my dreams come true.


I WILL LIVE AS IF I AM A GREAT PERSON


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You start out life with nothing, and you end it the same way. But between the start and the finish, you can have an awesome adventure.

If you are going to live, you may as well live as if you are a great person. That means, you live as if your dreams are possible and work each day to make them happen. You travel far, travel light, and make your life into what you want it to be. You never forget that life isn't about stuff; instead, it's about living your dreams.

As you face problems each day, ask yourself, "How would I handle this challenge if I was a great person?" After you answer that question, go ahead and do what a great person would do.

Don't tiptoe through life trying to just get by. Instead, make your life into something memorable, something great.

You only get one life, and you may as well make it into a great one. You have little to lose and much to gain, so go ahead and live as if you are great.


I CHOOSE TO THINK POSITIVE


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No matter what happens, I choose to think positive.

When I lived in Arabia, I spent my free time driving in the sand dunes south of Riyadh.

In this picture, my Defender sits high and dry in the Bakra dunes. I am high-sided, and I'm not going anywhere until I recover the vehicle by digging out the sand from under the chassis (the hard way) or by having someone pull me off the top of the dune using a snatch strap (the easy way).

Getting high-sided on the top of a sand dune isn't a problem; it's only an embarrassment. It simply means I miscalculated my speed as I was going over the dune, and at the last minute, I slowed down too much, and I didn't have enough momentum to make it over the top.

If you want to enjoy driving in the sand, you must learn to think positive.

It's inevitable that you are going to get stuck many times when you drive in soft dunes. It doesn't matter whether you are high-sided or sunk to the chassis in soft sand, a positive attitude turns this inconvenience into a real adventure.

A few minutes of work with your shovel and sand ladders free you from your sandy prison.

There's no need for panic, recriminations, or berating yourself for getting stuck. It goes with the territory. If you drive in soft sand, you will get stuck, so get over it and keep on trucking.

The goal isn't to never get stuck. Instead, the goal is to have an adventure and to live your sand dreams.

Driving in the sand dunes is a lot like life.

You frequently find that you are up to your axles in problems and are high-sided by the challenges of life. That's to be expected, because you are living your dreams.

If you don't panic, and instead, maintain a positive attitude, it won't be long before you escape the sand trap and start moving in a positive direction.

Everybody gets stuck at many points in their life, but not everyone thinks positive.

Negative thinkers bog down in their problems, and they may stay stuck for years at a time.

Positive thinkers know that getting stuck is only a temporary inconvenience.

No matter what happens in their life, they choose to think positive. For them, positive thinking is a choice they make dozens of time each day.

They know that if they want to be positive, nothing and no one can stop them.

Think positive.


WHEN I AM IN A HOLE, I STOP DIGGING


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One of the first rules you learn about driving in sand is when you are in a hole, stop digging.

When I started driving in dunes, I frequently got stuck in patches of soft sand.

As a novice, when I bogged down, I spun my tires which made me sink progressively deeper until the chassis rested solidly on the ground. Only then did my Defender stop sinking.

Eventually I discovered if you don't spin your wheels when you first get stuck, you don't sink down nearly as far. It's much easier to recover a bogged vehicle when it's not buried all the way up to the chassis.

We developed a damage control rule for everyone who drove with us in the sand. When the forward motion of the vehicle ceases, you immediately stop spinning your tires so vehicle recovery will be easier.

When we did it that way, we could usually go in reverse and back out of the sand trap if a couple of people got out and gave the vehicle a push with their hands. Only occasionally was it necessary to use sand ladders, winches, or snatch straps.

This rule is applicable to life in general.

When you find your self stuck, when forward motion ceases, it's time to stop digging. If you continue to spin your mental wheels, you will only sink deeper into the muck and mire.

Whatever it was that you were doing before you got into trouble, you must immediately cease and desist. If you don't stop, you will only sink deeper making it more difficult to get your life back on track.

You might want to write that rule on paper and look at it several times a day when you are having problems.

If you stop digging and start doing something constructive, it won't be long before you are back to living your dreams.


I AM UNSTOPPABLE


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I'm grateful for all the times I've been stuck over the years. That's what happens when I live my dreams

I've been up to my axles in sand too many times to count. That's terrific because it means I am living my sand dreams.

I been sailing offshore in forty five knots of wind and eighteen foot seas trailing warps behind my boat, and that's fantastic. That means I am sailing on the ocean of my dreams.

I've been stuck in front of a computer screen writing books on positive thinking for more than twenty years. That's good because my writing is helping other people live their dreams.

I've been stuck for thousands of hours working on my websites, and that totally awesome, because I now have a Positive Thinking Network that reaches people in 196 countries around the world.

If I'm lucky I'll get stuck somewhere in Africa when I drive from Cape Town to Cairo in my Land Rover.

I've been stuck too many times to count, and I hope my good fortune continues.


I TEST MY LIMITS EVERY DAY


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Sand driving teaches you about your limitations.

The first lesson you learn is that appearances are deceiving.

Traversing a sea of sand may look like a piece of cake, but fifteen seconds later you are monumentally stuck with sand up to your chassis.

At other times, you look at what appears to be difficult terrain, and you pass easily through it like you're driving in a mall parking lot.

You can't tell ahead of time how hard the slogging will become until you get into gear and start moving. Appearances truly are deceiving.

The second lesson you learn is that the only way to find out if limitations are real is to test them.

If you want to live your sand dreams, you have to test the sand all the time. You must allow yourself the luxury of testing your limitations many times each day. When you do that, you discover that you can do many things you previously considered impossible.

Take a look at the wheel tracks in this picture.

One pair of tracks leads to a Defender far off in the distance. When he went down the slip face into the valley of doom, he kept on trucking. You can see two patches of soft sand in his wheel tracks where he powered through without getting stuck.

The second set of tracks belongs to a Nissan Patrol. This vehicle went into the valley of doom and got stuck. His tracks show that he almost made it out the other side on his first attempt, but he had to back up and make another try. He made it out on his second go.

I'm standing on top of the dune surveying the landscape trying to figure out which way to head.

I had no clue as to whether I would get stuck in the valley of doom, but I also had no choice. If I wanted to test my limitations, I had to go down the slip face and see what happened.

I put the accelerator all the way to the floor in second gear when I hit the bottom of the slip face, and I easily powered out of the hole.

That's the way life works. There's hundreds of sand traps out there, and if you want to drive in the sand, it's inevitable that you will discover many pits of apparent despair. That's to be expected, because you are living your sand dreams.

If you want to live your dreams, you must test your limitations every day. There is no other way.


I CAN ALWAYS DO MORE THAN I THOUGHT I COULD


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God gave us a lifetime to TEST OUR LIMITATIONS and to LIVE HIS DREAM FOR OUR LIFE.

God's dream for our lives is better than anything we can imagine.

God created a beautiful world and populated it with life, and then He gave it to us for our enjoyment.

He also put an eternal spirit inside us, and we have the privilege of living as one of his children. That's why some of us call him Father. God is on our side and has our best interests at heart. He has a powerful and positive dream for our life, and if we get in agreement with him, that dream can come true.

But there's a catch. The only way for that dream to come true is for us to test our limitations.

God doesn't have any limitations - all of them belong to us. To the extent that we cling to our limitations, to that degree we limit the ability of God to work a miracle in our life.

It's incumbent on us to step up to the front and test every limitation found in our mind.

We must relentlessly look past our limitations and act as if we cannot fail. That's the only way we can break through to the awesome future that God has in store for us.

We have a choice, If we cling to our limitations, we miss out on God's best. If we test our limitations and break through them, God works a miracle in our life.


Escape Velocity


Achieving Escape velocity

The unexpected side effect of our Arabian adventures was that I achieved escape velocity. Without even trying and without knowing what was happening, I no longer felt the pull of cultural gravity. I achieved escape velocity, I was free, and I made my life into what I wanted it to be. I was now a citizen of the world, and cultures were something to be experienced and enjoyed, but not something that controlled my existence.


Programmer's Manual For Your Mind


The Programmer's Manual for Your Mind contains the tools you need to reprogram your mind with a Positive Operating System. It's your personal mental tool kit that shows you how to change the way you think and feel.

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Programmer's Manual

Mind under construction

Positive Self Talk
Positive Self Talk

Managing your inner voice

Positive Power Focus
Positive Power Focus

The battlefield of focus


Positive Expectations


Your life is forged in the fire of expectations. It does not matter whether your expectations are positive or negative, you still get what you expect. That's why your expectations must be positive.

Law of Expectations
Law of Expectations

You get what you expect

Fix your expecter
Positive Expectations

Fix your Expecter

Expectations Doctor
Expectations Doctor

The Great Physician


Owner's Manual For Your Mind


The Owner's Manual for Your Mind contains thirty-one Change Principles that empower you to make a life. When you make a living, you focus on survival. When you make a life, you focus on your dreams. Never become so busy making a living that you ignore making a life.

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Owner's Manual

31 Change Principles

Change happens when I am ready to change
Change Happens When

I am ready to change

Change in an instant
Change Is Instantaneous

Change in an instant


Positive Spirituality


God is love and works by love, and by nothing else than love. The power and presence of God in the world is love. Every time you see love, you see God's hand at work. Every time you feel love, you experience God's presence and power. Today is a good day to learn the Facts Of Love.

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Facts Of Love

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The hammer of God is love


Real Power: Maxing Out On God's Love


The most powerful force in the universe is God's love. The most important fact in the universe is that God loves and accepts you the way you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way. God loves you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes, and it doesn't get any better than that. There is no limit to how good your life can become when your heart and mind are full of God's love. Learn more about God's love by reading Real Power: Maxing Out on God's Love.

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You become a new person

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Listen To The Sound Of Your Dreams


Dr. Dave has more than 200 positive podcasts that fill your mind with positive things. You can also listen to Dr. Dave's positive podcasts on iTunes - Maximum Strength Positive Thinking.

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Podcasts that set you free

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The sound of God's love


Maximum Strength Positive Thinking


You have a lot of things to discuss with your mind, and Maximum Strength Positive Thinking tells you what you should be talking about. You don't need to spend years searching for empowering ideas that make it possible to live your dreams. It's already right here in a self-talk format.

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Limiting Thoughts

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Fear


Everyone gets afraid, but not everyone lets fear control their destiny. Your job is to feel the fear, and do it anyway. If you never feel the icy grip of fear in your life, you probably are not living your dreams. Doers of Dreams have a familiarity with fear that the Life Long Disoriented never know. You will never make your dreams come true unless you learn how to deal with fear in a constructive manner. Today is a good day to send fear packing..

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Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking


Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking is a depression fighting handbook that shows you how to stop doing depression, and how to create a positive brain. It's not enough to just stop being negative. You also must develop a positive mind. Learn eight steps you can take to eradicate depression from your life.

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Depression


The war for a positive mind is fought on the battle field of focus. If you want to win the battle against depression, you must control the focus of your mind.

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Affirmations


Your emotional mind is an eternal skeptic and must be shown the truth many times before it will believe. Affirmations do more than change the way you think. They also change the way you feel.

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I Am Affirmations

Words that make your life


Positive Social Media


Social media has become unsocial. It has degenerated into a truth optional war zone in which people take sides. They draw lines in the sand, and if you are on the wrong side of their line, then a battle begins. 

Social media does not have to be that way. That's why Positive Social Media exists. It's a politics and hate-free zone. If you are tired of unsocial media, and if you want to have a positive social media experience, you are at the right place. A positive social media experience is just a click away.

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No Unsocial Media

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Positive Thinking University


Positive Thinking University has something for everyone. If you are interested in adventure, you can visit Sailing Uni and Overland Uni. If you want to win the battle against depression, then Depression Uni is for you. Self Talk Uni gets you started on a program of positive self-talk to change what you say when you talk to your mind. If you want to explore the world of self help, then Self Help Uni is a good start. If your interest is positive spirituality, visit Positive Christian Uni.

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Shed Your Limiting Beliefs


Shed your limiting beliefs by listening to Positive Podcasts from Dr. Dave. This is a small sample of free Podcasts that have changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. Have a listen. It just might change your life.


How to Make a Life


How to Be Great


Be Excellent


Unstoppable


Change Who You Are


Positive Operating System


Resourceful Beliefs


Getting Permission


Unlimited Potential



Positive Thinking Bookstore


If you like what you read on The Positive Channel, you will love Dr. Dave's books. Some people download Dr. Dave's books to their smartphones and Kindles to have these powerful positive books with them at all times.

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Owner's Manual For Your Mind - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor
Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor
Programmer's Manual For Your Mind - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor
Real Power: Maxing Out On God's Love - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor

Positive Christian Self Talk - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor.com
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Positive Self Talk Yellow Book - David J. Abbott M.D. - Positive Thinking Doctor
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