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This is my very first blog and I approach it with both a mixture of excitement and nervousness. Excited because there is so much I would like to write about. Nervous because – well, it is all new for me and

I don’t know who I am writing to, if anyone will read it or if anyone will find it interesting enough to keep reading it. But I have just come across a book I bought and began to read a few years ago – a book called The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz. For some reason I never got past the first few

pages back then but timing is everything so I have heard – I am now about to begin the sixth chapter.

The book is about positive thinking – groan, groan I can hear. But I have to say, I really do believe in it.

I used to live in Spain some years ago and became acquainted with a man from Chile who introduced

me to this subject. It wasn’t long before I was reading all manner of literature on it and, more importantly, putting it into practice. It worked! It really did! I won’t go into the endless examples of how my life changed – because, sadly, it didn’t last very long. It is hard work being positive all the time and I soon

fell into old habits of thinking – oh no, it’s Monday, oh no, it’s raining again, oh no, I’ve got another meeting with so-and-so – much easier to think in such a way it would seem.

I fully intend to finish the book this time around (you are most welcome to ask me if I do so in the Comments section) because I am at the start of a new phase in my life and I want to Think Big. Things that I always wanted to do are now happening, things that I wanted to learn are now being learnt. I feel energized. I feel I have already grown in emotional and mental stature. I feel like I am already a best-selling author. I have stopped myself here from writing anything negative and self-deprecating as I

would normally do. I am Thinking Big. Apparently the great philosopher Disraeli said: “Life is too short

to be little.”  What a lovely thought.