President’s message for Authors’ Voice For August 2022
‘The Power of Positive Thinking’
Do you believe in the power of positive thinking?
I do.
Try it, you’ll like it.
I promise.
Do you know who also made that promise?
A minister and author named Norman Vincent Peale.
Yes, Norman wrote a whole bunch of books.
And yes, I’ve read Norman’s book entitled, “The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).”
Please don’t ask me about the book’s contents.
I’ve forgotten most of Norman’s ideas, a long time ago.
But his belief in the power of positive thinking remains one of my core beliefs.
It must work, since Norman and his estate have sold over five million copies of that book.
That’s a lot of positivity and a lot of money.
And throughout my life, just like when I played with magnets, I’ve experimented with positive and negative energy.
And through my experimentation, I’ve learned to avoid negative thoughts and negative people as if they carried the bubonic plague.
And it worked so well, that if I found myself stranded on a island of negativity, I packed up my bags and left.
Do you want to know some examples of my experiments?
Of course you do.
Well, here are a very limited number of success stories:
Passing the Florida and the Louisiana Bar Examinations;
Handling and winning complex litigation ;
Running and growing with: a Cub scout troup or a construction project or a legal team.
So why does any of this matter to you my fellow SFWA member?
Well, I’m going to be positive-thinking president of the SFWA.
And I hope that our leadership team and our members follow suit.
The experiment begins.
