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By Amy Wong

January 2012

  • Positive Thinking Tip: Be a Tourist in Your Own Town
    January 27, 2012

    I haven’t read any Proust except this much-quoted line: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Despite the clear connection to positive thinking—it’s not so much your circumstances but how you look at them—I’ve never been entirely in agreement with Proust. I think you often need new experiences to get a fresh perspective on yourself and your life. (Besides, I love to travel.)

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  • Positive Thinking and Pets: Funny Dog Videos
    January 20, 2012

    Someone (ahem, Winky) heard that I posted about kittens last week and demanded equal time for her canine kind. How can I say no when every single day she helps me keep my positive attitude with all the funny things she does? Besides, making my dog happy makes me happy. I bet you dog lovers out there would say the same about your pets.

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  • Positive Thinking and Pets: The Kitten Covers
    January 13, 2012

    I’ve blogged before about how my dog helps me be a more positive thinker. Even though my world is canine-centric (Winky would like to interject here: Well, duh, Mom, your life should revolve around me!) and I’ve never had a pet kitty (allergies), I have to say, cats make me happy too.

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  • Positive Thinking Tips: One Rule for Keeping Resolutions
    January 6, 2012

    I was at a party in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve when the talk turned to resolutions. “What’s yours for 2012?” someone asked me. I shrugged. “I don’t have one,” I said. “I don’t really do resolutions.”

    “Come on,” our host, my friend Christine, said. “You’re one of the few people I know who joined a gym and actually stuck with it. It’s been, what—three years now?—and you still work out all the time!”

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Amy Wong is the executive editor of Guideposts and was a founding editor of Positive Thinking. She lives in New York City with her adopted dog, Winky, a natural-born positive thinker who believes that everyone has a treat for her and every day is the best day of her life. Amy hopes to be that optimistic someday (she’s working on it!).