How can you start thinking positively?

About 50,000 thoughts go through our heads every day. Most of those thoughts are about ourselves and our own functioning. 80% of those thoughts are negative. This has an influence that should not be underestimated. The power of thought can be so strong that it makes us hesitate, stumble, sweat, panic, paralyze, even kill. Witness the story of a Texas railroad worker who went to check a number of wagons before the weekend. In one of those trucks with a cold room, he gets stuck by an automatically closing door. Knowing that those cells were cooling to 10 degrees below zero and that it would take at least two days for anyone to come by, he became convinced that he would freeze to death. As a sign of goodbye, he had carved a message for his wife and daughter in the wall with a knife: “It is so cold here, it feels as if my body is slowly getting numb. I may not and will not fall asleep… ”“ His dead body was found on Monday morning. The inquest revealed that he had died of frostbite from hypothermia. That is remarkable, because the cold room was not switched on. The temperature had always been a constant 18 degrees. 

"My greatest concern has never been that I have suffered so many defeats, but the greatest concern has always been that I would have resigned myself to it.’’ - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America