Looking on the Brighter Side

By Dwight E Clay

Looking on the Brighter Side is a book written to inspire and challenge readers to focus on becoming more optimistic and finding happiness in the simple joys of life. Beyond the complexities that life often brings, each person can discover a new meaning for life in the simplest of ways. The author provides a way to discover happiness in very common but often overlooked ways. With his use of biblical scriptures, anecdotes, and analogies, the author takes the reader on a very easy-to-understand journey of enlightenment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514468678

Dwight E Clay

Dwight E. Clay is a Christian minister and motivational speaker from New Orleans, Louisiana, who has traveled the world on a journey to inspire men and women to discover greater purpose for their lives. After surviving the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Clay became committed to the continuous redevelopment of his community and lives of others.

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Copyright © 2016 by Dwight E. Clay.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5144-6868-5

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Rev. date: 02/29/2016

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Looking in the Wrong Direction

Chapter 2 Looking at the Brighter Side

Chapter 3 One Step at a Time

Chapter 4 Committed to Life

Chapter 5 Don't Worry About a Thing

Chapter 6 Losing Weight

Chapter 7 Get Your Mind Right!

Chapter 8 Live Joyous!

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

-- Julia Cameron

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

-- Maya Angelou

Foreword

Today many people are simply looking for help -- with personal dilemmas, family troubles, relationship issues, workplace conflicts, financial hardships and the list goes on. In times such as these mentioned many people may turn to popular self-help books to find solutions to their problems. In most circumstances, the seeker may find temporary relief but months later find themselves worrying once again and in a state of conflict and confusion. Dwight E. Clay has provided us with an alternative to the over-indulgent self-help book by simply inviting us to look on the brighter side. While seemingly simplistic, Clay offers us a pathway to wholeness and holiness by going beyond the often tried methodology of steps and stages of human development by suggesting that genuine and long lasting development is by nature, spiritual.

In his book, Looking On The Brighter Side, Dwight E. Clay asserts that happiness and fulfillment does not come from seeking material things to make you happy but by finding peace in the simple things, such as watching a sunrise. Not just looking at it but experiencing the magnificence of God's creation or taking a long solitary walk or taking a trip, exploring a different city or country and immersing yourself in a culture other than your own; in essence allowing yourself to have a real adventure.

What distinguishes Looking On The Brighter Side from yet another book that convinces you that you need to change, become, or just get your life together, is that it draws us to the