Contents
Introduction
Matt and Bubba
The Benefits of Being Positive
Simple as a Smile
Feed with Laughter
Take a Thank-You Walk
Build Your Gratitude Muscle
A Day of Gratitude
Tell Yourself Positive Stories
Get to instead of Have to
Blessed instead of Stressed
Turn Complaints into Solutions
Fear or Faith
Challenges or Opportunities
An Opportunity
The Positive Dog Grows
Positive Energy is Contagious
Positive Boomerang
Feeding Others
Love
Encouragement
No Ordinary Day
Negativity Serves a Purpose
What Would Bubba Do?
A Special Day
Two Positive Dogs are Better than One
Feed the Positive Dog
The Positive Pledge
Resources
Feed Your Team with Positivity
About the Illustrator
Other Books by Jon Gordon
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Gordon, Jon, 1971-
The positive dog : a story about the power of positivity / Jon Gordon. —1
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-470-88855-1 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-22109-9 (ebk);
ISBN 978-1-118-23486-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-25948-1 (ebk)
1. Motivation (Psychology) 2. Positive psychology. I. Title.
BF503.G667 2012
158.1—dc23
2012005817
For Dharma, my positive dog
