The Positive Dog

A Story About the Power of Positivity

By: Jon Gordon

Narrated by: Jon Gordon

Length: 1 hr and 29 mins

Publisher's Summary

Discover the benefits of being positive. We all have two dogs inside of us. One dog is positive, happy, optimistic, and hopeful. The other dog is negative, mad, sad, pessimistic, and fearful. These two dogs often fight inside us, but guess who wins the fight? The one you feed the most. So begins the story about a negative mutt named Matt and a big dog named Bubba who teaches him how to feed himself with positivity each day and in the process Matt transforms his own life and the shelter they call home.

The Positive Dog is an inspiring, heartwarming story that not only reveals the strategies and benefits of being positive but also an essential truth for humans: Being positive doesn't just make you better. It makes everyone around you better. Jon Gordon has shared the simple, powerful strategies found in this audiobook with Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, college athletes, school districts, and non-profits and the proof is in the countless success stories shared by Jon's clients.

The strategies in this book have grown sales, motivated salespeople, improved team performance, developed positive kids, enhanced careers, inspired promotions, improved marriages, and lead to greater individual and team success. For anyone looking to overcome negativity and challenges to become more positive, The Positive Dog provides the inspiration and action plan to feed yourself and your team with positivity. When you feed the positive dog and feed others, everyone benefits!

©2012 Jon Gordon (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

possibly the worst book I've ever read

While I appreciate the optimistic idea, the book is painfully repetitive, droning on the same point. Written as if for very young children, but not interesting enough for even their attention. I felt very annoyed after the read.

cute

Fun, light hearted. It has great points that you have heard in my other positive affirmation books. This book just puts a fun spin on it. the last 15 minutes or so were my favorite.

Good info on how to be more positive

STORY - (self help) The author of this book uses a cute, short story about two dogs who live in an animal shelter to make his point. One dog has a negative attitude (Matt) and the other has a positive attitude (Bubba). Throughout the story Bubba teaches Matt simple steps how to be happier and more positive in daily life. There are many good lessons in the book, but the bottom line is that you need to continuously work at finding the good side of things and being thankful for them. The rewards are better health, less stress, being happier, attracting more friends, etc., etc. I don't consider myself a negative person, but I still think I will benefit from having heard this little story.

PERFORMANCE - The author reads his own work, but I would have preferred a professional narrator. He does an okay job, though.

OVERALL - Recommended for everyone. It's only 1 1/2 hours long and is a pleasant, easy listen. Audible categorizes it as a business/professional book, and I can definitely see how some of the advice would help in a business or team setting as well as for individuals.

Inspiring!

I keep returning to this simple story with it's powerful message striving to make it a habit-knit focus in my life!

Clichés and endless Facebook memes, UGH

After reading a review of another book, for which I am considering using my next credit, it was mentioned by another reviewer that REFUNDS ARE POSSIBLE. Well, I will be asking for one for this lame ass book; very amateurish narration (we can HEAR THE PAGES being turned, HELLO!) and poor editing (one phrase was cut off only to be repeated in the same sentence). Seriously, every point he made has been made better by someone else in my Facebook News Feed. Plagiarism and clichés abound. Don't bother.

My daughter loved it

Today we spent time listening to this book. We both became more positive and had fun together.

Exceptional Book!

Great place to start on the journey of personal growth! Great for teams who have many different types of people on them.

great

I loved it and have started applying it. Not only do i feel better but the people and how they interact with me are better. I highly recommend!

straight forward, happy book

Any additional comments?

This was a easy listen, and a simple reminder to own your actions and vibes. The chapters are short, so you get a positive message in short period of time without trying to recall where you left off.

Another great read from Jon Gordon

A shorter book, and very engaging! Jon Gordon is one of my favorite authors. We highly recommend it!

inspirational and aspirational

Loved this story so much. Really inspiring with some great ideas to bring more positivity into day to day life.

really helpfull

it's simplistic in many ways and short... but that makes it easy to digest and useable.practical advice. great thanks