Positive Thinking Posters That Make You Think

That's why these posters are here. They aren't designed to make you feel artificially positive or to convince you that simply thinking differently will make everything you want appear. Instead, they are reminders of ideas that can help you look at yourself, your circumstances and your choices from a different perspective.

Some may challenge you, some may encourage you and others may simply make you pause for a moment. You might find one that reminds you to take action, another that makes you question a belief you've carried for years, or one that gives you the confidence to take a step you've been avoiding. The most important thing is what happens after you've read the words.

A poster cannot change your life. What you do with the thought it creates might. Positive thinking isn't about becoming a permanently happy, endlessly optimistic version of yourself. Life doesn't work that way. We all experience disappointment, fear, uncertainty, failure and difficult days. 

The aim isn't to deny those experiences, but to stop allowing them to define who you believe you are. Many of the ideas behind these posters reflect the philosophy in my book, You Are Not Broken. The book challenges the conventional idea that we constantly need to improve, fix or reinvent ourselves before we can become the person we want to be. Instead, it asks what might happen if we began removing the fear, self-doubt, criticism and old assumptions that have been covering up the person who was already there.

You are not broken. You are buried. So, choose the words that speak to you, download the posters you find useful and put them somewhere you will see them. Use them as prompts to think, reflect and, when necessary, take action. Because the purpose of positive thinking isn't to sit back and hope that life changes. It's to change the way you see yourself and then decide what you're going to do next. Download a poster. Take a thought with you. Then do something with it.