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By Amy Wong

April 2012

  • Positive Thinking Tip: Look at Art
    April 27, 2012

    An ad caught my eye recently, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It showed an art collection splashed across the sides of city buses—paintings by Sargent, Picasso and Warhol and a photograph by Walker Evans. (Who expects to see great works of art on public transportation?)

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  • Positive Playlist: What a Wonderful World
    April 20, 2012

    The glorious spring weather this week has had me humming “What a Wonderful World” on my walks to and from work. The aging Louis Armstrong made the song famous, singing in his gravelly voice, “I see skies of blue ... clouds of white ... the bright blessed day ... the dark sacred night ...”

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  • 3 Stress-Relieving Techniques from Norman Vincent Peale
    April 13, 2012

    April is Stress Awareness Month. That’s what an email from my health insurance company informed me this morning. As if I weren’t already uncomfortably aware of my stress level, which is escalating the closer we get to tax day (can you tell I haven’t finished mine yet?).

    But I know having a negative attitude isn’t going to ease my stress (or get my taxes done any faster). So I turned to these simple stress-relieving techniques from the foremost practitioner of the power of positive thinking, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Try one (or all) for yourself.

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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!).