Incurable Positivity: The Positive Effect, #1

By Angee Costa and April Sabral

The path to a positive mind requires conditioning and training. This best-selling book takes you there like no other.

Whether your life is exactly the way you want it to be or you are struggling to craft the existence you crave, you are likely struggling with negative thoughts. Negative thoughts about the world, your situation, or negative people around you. The power to control and direct your thinking is one of the greatest quests a person can embark upon. Let us be your guides.

Complete this book alone or as a part of the Incurable Positivity online book club. The results:

• Better mental and emotional health
• Proven benefits to your physical wellbeing
• Attracting the people, resources, and opportunities you want
• More happiness, mindfulness, and contentment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angee Costa
• Release date: Apr 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798224875702

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Incurable Positivity: Seven steps to shift from negative to positive in seven days

By: April Sabral with Angee Costa Edited by: 846 Global Publishing Cover Design: 846 Global Publishing Copyright 2023

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This book is dedicated to the circumstances and people that brought me to my knees. I am grateful for the learning that enabled me to stand up, be proud, strong, and POSITIVE.

Thank you. April

FOREWORD 1

PROLOGUE 3

INTRODUCTION - The Back Story 13

Step 1: Be Committed - Commit to having a positive mental attitude at all costs  19

Step 2: Be Thoughtful - Contemplate your thoughts often  35

Step 3: Be Honest - Acknowledge your negative thoughts and

feelings; don’t ignore them 45

Step 4: Be Mindful - Be mindful of how others influence and enroll you  57

Step 5: Be Intentional - Practice, practice, practice 65

Step 6: Be Aware - Be aware of what derails you 73

Step 7: Be Connected – Connect to something bigger than yourself  89

RECAP 93

Resources and Citations 99

It’s hard to believe that it has been more than three years since I first met April Sabral. At the time, I was a hardworking single mother, book publisher, author, and real estate investor. But the kind of contentment in life I craved eluded me. Frankly, my life was dull and gray with a bevy of mundane tasks to check off my never- ending to-do list. I simply could not fathom what the problem was. Like all good little entrepreneurs, I focused on personal development, education, family, and hard work. I enjoyed many accomplishments, but something was missing. Little did I know that the key to unlocking the joy that had been missing in my life and work was just one book away.

As the editor of April’s first book, The Positive Effect, I got to dive into the theories that catapulted her to success in the retail industry. But, woven between the pages of a book about how to navigate retail was a golden nugget. I seized on it like a hungry lion, anxious to see how this fascinating idea could apply to my non-retail life.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that The Positive Effect changed my life. I was able to douse my entire existence with the one thing it had been missing: positivity. Suddenly, everything changed. I do mean everything.

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN something amazing was soon to happen the moment April burst into my world with her infectious positivity. After meeting her, I looked forward to the next conversation I would be blessed to have with her. Even her notes and emails infused me with energy. I watched as she made big, bold moves in her life that would make others cower in fear and was the beneficiary of her largesse as she spread this incurable positivity to me and everyone around her.

I made the decision to adopt her philosophy. The result? My dull gray broke out in vibrant color and there is a current of pure joy that runs through everything I do. Work is easier, my income has tripled, I spend more time with my family, and I end the day with a sense of satisfaction that my life is precisely what it was meant to be. And, most importantly, I am able to infect others with the message of how positivity is the answer they have been seeking.

I longed for April to write a book like this. It condenses the very best of the attitudes, strategies, and philosophies she has cultivated over a lifetime. I confess, I am still a student in April’s school of positivity, learning and growing each day. Still, I can comfortably promise that if you open your heart, mind, soul, and spirit to the concepts contained in this book, you will never be the same.

Angee Costa

CEO, 846 Global Publishing MogulMomma.com

In 2015, I took a trip to Bali seeking healing, inner peace, and finding myself after deciding to end my four-year marriage. Call it my Eat, pray, love era. I was on a journey to do something radical, travel far away from what I knew, shift my routine, and get outside my comfort zone.

Sitting on the beach with a pen and notepad in hand, I wrote a letter to myself that changed the trajectory of my