Author: Peter Prichard

DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – 87 YEAR OLD COLLEGE GRADUATE INSPIRES YOUNGER STUDENTS On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. […]

THIS is baseball…. 7 year-old Beau Dowling, battling cancer for the second time in his young life, got to throw out the first pitch at a White Sox game then ran the bases where he received high-fives from the team on his way home. Catch TWELVE here: amzn.to/3F9Gedb FROM: Twelve The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is to provide readers with sites that make available resources focused on creating positive impact and examples of positive daily actions. The reasons for reading positive news is captured in many studies: […]

Ronald McNair was 9 years old when a South Carolina staff person told him he could not check out books from a segregated library in 1959. Refusing to leave, a determined McNair sat on the counter while the police were called, as well as McNair’s mother. The police arrived, told the library staff to let the young boy have his books, and McNair walked out alongside his mother and brother. McNair went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics at MIT and became one of the first Black Americans selected […]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM: Inspire — The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is to provide readers with sites that make available resources focused on creating positive impact, amusing stories that help us all smile during these difficult times, and examples of positive daily actions that have been taken that are included to energize readers to take their own actions to make our world a better place. If you are already there, thanks!! Have a healthy, positive and impactful life, Peter Prichard CMF -WEBSITE/BLOG – https://havepositiveimpact.com/ -AUTHOR – the International #1 […]

Today while at the gas station I overheard a lady in her late 20’s telling 2 other men to leave her alone so I decided to walk over to them and I asked her ” how was the meeting today darlin? ” she looked at me and said ” it was good, I’ll tell you more about it when we get home in a few “. I replied with ” wonderful I’ll pick up your favorite for dinner”. The two guys left in a hurry and she told me ” […]

“Anthony Burgess was forty when he learned he had a brain tumor that would kill him within a year. He had no money at the time and nothing to bequeath to his soon-to-be widow, Lynne. Burgess had never been a professional novelist in the past; but he was always aware that he had the talent to be a writer in him. So, just to be able to leave at least the copyrights to his wife, he put a piece of paper in the typewriter and began to write his first […]

Glad this happened for both of them. FROM: Inspire — The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is to provide readers with sites that make available resources focused on creating positive impact, amusing stories that help us all smile during these difficult times, and examples of positive daily actions that have been taken that are included to energize readers to take their own actions to make our world a better place. If you are already there, thanks!! Have a healthy, positive and impactful life, Peter Prichard CMF -WEBSITE/BLOG – […]

The Greater Good Science Center, based at UC Berkeley, is one of the most effective organizations I know that provides hundreds of science-based resources for creating a healthy body and mind and having a positive impact. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ That is the reason that I provide a link to it in most of my positive impact posts. Here are just a few of the relevant personal excellence and positive impact posts that are on their website at this time: -Can Contact Reduce Prejudice Even When You’re in Conflict? -Finding Delight Through Your […]

This image says all that needs to be said. FROM: Inspire – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakshithmaben — The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is to provide readers with sites that make available resources focused on creating positive impact, amusing stories that help us all smile during these difficult times, and examples of positive daily actions that have been taken that are included to energize readers to take their own actions to make our world a better place. If you are already there, thanks!! Have a healthy, positive and impactful life, Peter […]