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This book is dedicated to YOU. May the
words within it inspire and encourage you to
become all you were created to be. We believe
in you! The best is yet to come.
Portions of this book are used with permission from the following sources:
Gordon, Jon. The Energy Bus, ISBN 9780470100288, Wiley, 2007
Gordon, Jon. The No Complaining Rule, ISBN 9780470279496, Wiley, 2008
Gordon, Jon. The Shark and the Goldfish, ISBN 9780470503607, Wiley, 2009
Gordon, Jon. Training Camp, ISBN 9780470462089, Wiley, 2009
Gordon, Jon. The Seed, ISBN 9780470888568, Wiley, 2011
Gordon, Jon. The Positive Dog, ISBN 9780470888551, Wiley, 2012
Gordon, Jon. The Carpenter, ISBN 9780470888544, Wiley, 2014
Gordon, Jon. The Hard Hat, ISBN 9781119120117, Wiley, 2015
Gordon, Jon and Mike Smith. You Win in the Locker Room First, ISBN 9781119157854, Wiley, 2015
Gordon, Jon. The Power of Positive Leadership, ISBN 9781119351979, Wiley, 2017
Gordon, Jon. The Power of a Positive Team, ISBN 9781119430247, Wiley, 2018
Gordon, Jon and Damon West. The Coffee Bean, ISBN 9781119430278, Wiley, 2019
“We are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard.”
—Jon Gordon
This book isn't just a book of positive quotes. It's a resource you can turn to each day to help you improve your life and career by cultivating positive thoughts that help you overcome challenges, negativity, and adversity. The more positivity we develop on the inside, the stronger and more resilient we become in facing the world on the outside. Positivity is a muscle and we can develop it.
It's not about being Pollyanna Positive. It's about the real stuff that makes a proven difference in our perspective and our lives.
Pessimists don't change the world.
Critics write words but they don't write the future.
Complainers talk about problems, but they don't solve them.
Throughout history, we see that it's the optimists, the believers, the dreamers, the doers, and the positive leaders who change the world.
The future belongs to those who believe in it and have the belief, resilience, positivity, and optimism to overcome all the challenges in order to create it.
That's you.
But this isn't just about you. When we develop positivity within ourselves, we can share it and impact others.
This book and the thoughts within it are meant to be shared.
Our hope is that the quotes in this book encourage you and inspire you to encourage others. We filled this book with a series of inspirational messages that you can read anytime you need a boost. You can start from the beginning or open the book randomly to any page and find a message that speaks to you.
There is a power in positivity. Let's start fueling up with it today!
—Jon and Daniel