Book of the Week: "Positive Dog" by Jon Gordon

There is a saying that you attract those things that you put out. It's like a boomerang. If you project negativity, the only thing that is going to come back is a negative outcome.

So looking at this, wouldn't it be wise to exert positivity? Wouldn't positivity return if that that was the case? Well that is exactly what Jon Gordon claims in the "Positive Dog."

We all have two types of dogs in us, a positive dog and a negative dog. The dog that that grows bigger and stronger is, naturally, the one we feed the most. If we constantly feeding the dog with phrases of "not good enough" or "it will never work out," then the negative dog grows, but if you constantly surround yourself with positive affirmations the positive dog becomes stronger.

It reminds me of something my college golf coach always said on the course, "identify the negative, but focus on the positive." Identifying that something is not right is ok, but then you have to move on and find the bright spots.

Keeping with the sport of golf, say you pull your tee shot far left and you know there's out-of-bounds on that side of the fairway. Not sure you're out of bounds, you hit a provisional ball. When walking off the tee box and proceeding to your ball, you notice your first ball came to rest at the base of a tree.

There's two ways to look at this scenario. If you feed the negative dog, you may say "oh great how am I going to hit this?" But the positive dog in you would look at this scenario and say "great I'm not out-of-bounds! I can punch this back out to the fair way and still have an opportunity to for par."

Which one of those two phrases sounds better in your eyes?

Definitely a book I would encourage reading this month. I mean what else are you doing the rest of this month?