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WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THE PANDEMIC?

When I was a child, one of the popular questions kids asked each other was, “What did your dad do during the war?”

My dad was a sailor on a PT boat in the Pacific, and my wife’s father was a member of an Underwater Demolition Team (Navy Seal).

Times have changed, and now we are in a pandemic.

The question has changed as well.

The question now is, “What did you do during the pandemic?”

My answer to that question is different than most.

We quarantined on our sailing catamaran in the Galapagos Islands for 40 days before undertaking a three week sailing voyage to Baja California where we sailed the Sea of Cortez for 4 months before returning home to Phoenix.

For the past two months in Phoenix, I have been revising and updating the Positive Thinking Network.

I started the Positive Thinking Network more than ten years ago.

The purpose the the Positive Thinking Network is to change the world one person at a time, one web page at a time, and one podcast at a time.

The Positive Thinking Network has more than 1400 web pages, more than 200 positive podcasts, and three positive newsletters.

The podcasts are found on iTunes under the titles Maximum Strength Positive Thinking, Positive Thinking Radio, and Positive Christian Radio.

The Positive Thinking Network has over 1,500,000 pages and podcasts downloaded each month.

The Positive Thinking Network has a large social media presence with more than 100 positive facebook pages that people interact with around the world.

The Network also has pages on Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram.

I have placed large and long passages from my books on the pages of the Positive Thinking Network free of charge. I was warned by Amazon that putting so much book material on my websites would result in decreased eBook sales (which turned out to be true).

The Positive Thinking Network has 229 web domains at the present time.

I have a photo library that contains more than 100,000 photographs that I use on web pages, and 99% of the photos were taken by me or by members of my family during our adventures around the world. The majority of the graphics and memes were created by me on my computers.

I design all of the websites and web pages on the Positive Thinking Network. It would be prohibitively expensive to pay someone to design the 1400 webpages on the network.

There are no employees in the Positive Thinking Network.

I personally created all the websites, I maintain them, and I pay for them.

The Positive Thinking Network is my zero overhead gift to the world.

So what did I do during the Pandemic?

So far, I have personally revised and redesigned 653 web pages over the past two months. I also removed thousands of advertisements so the network is Ad free.

I still have more than 700 web pages to update, and I will be making those revisions and updates as Covid 19 rages out of control in the United States over the next several months.

That’s what I did during the War Against Covid 19.

Dr. Dave

AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT!

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Guilty Of Living My Dreams

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Negative Thoughts Are A Dream Stealer

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I could write an entire book called, "Things I Feared That Never Happened," and follow that up with a second book entitled, "I Feared The Wrong Things." Almost always, fear is a waste of time. Most of the things you fear will never happen, and you fear the wrong things. When the hobglobins of fear start dancing in your mind, it's time to refocus on other things. Learn how to squelch the voice of fear with a positive focus!


What Woud Steve Do?

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Imagine, Believe, Receive

Imagine, Believe, Receive

The first step in moving toward your dreams is to doubt your limits. Once you doubt your limits, it's almost as if you are born again. You get an entirely new life with radically different rules of engagement. You enter the Promised Land of Imagine, Believe, and Receive. I know this to be true because I have been there.



Dr. Dave's Eclectic Blog - Positive Thinking Doctor - David J. Abbott M.D.

WHO IS DR. DAVE AND WHY IS HE BLOGGING?


More than two decades ago, Captain Dave (aka Dr. Dave) started writing and creating websites as he sailed around the world on his sailboat, SV Exit Only. Those early websites and books evolved into the Positive Thinking Network you see today.

Captain Dave lived overseas for twenty-eight years in his globe trotting lifestyle until he became a Flying Doctor with the Indian Health Service working for ten years in the American Southwest flying out to deliver health care to the Apache, Hopi, Hualapai, Havasupai, and Colorado River Tribes.

Dr. Dave completed his work with the Indian Health Service in Arizona, and now runs the Positive Thinking Network full time either from his catamaran or his Land Rover Defenders as he travels around the world

The Positive Thinking Network has a global outreach sending a positive message to 196 countries, and it is your definitive source of positive thinking on the World Wide Web. 

With hundreds of positive websites, and more than a million pages and podcasts downloaded each month, it's where you come to learn everything you want to know about positive thinking. The Positive Thinking Network focuses on positive self-talk, positive spirituality, winning the battle against depression, PTSD, and positive adventure.

Hundreds of family safe websites stand ready to fill your mind with positive things.

Dr. Dave and the Positive Thinking Network work around the clock to change the world, one person at a time, one web page at a time, and one podcast at a time.