It’s no secret that keeping a good mental attitude is important in life. Listed below are three positive thinking ideas that will help keep your chin up and your head held high. It can be tough to have a positive outlook on life, when life's events don't go your way.
The very first of my optimistic thinking tips is to practice and make it into a habit of asking the best questions. What do I mean by this? In retrospect, our perspective is for the most part controlled by the questions we ask ourselves on a regular basis. Sounds bizarre? Just watch your own thoughts for an hour or so. A common mistake the majority of people make is asking themselves the wrong questions. Questions like “Why does this always happen to me?” or “How come life has to be so hard?” These types of questions are based on the assumption that “this” always happens to you, and that life is, in fact, hard. Emotions like these will only reaffirm this to you and becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.
Try asking yourself questions that are much less negative and more likely to help aligned you with your desires. Maybe things like “How did I get to be so blessed?” or “What can I be excited about today?” Questions like these help strengthen positive beliefs into your mind and can help you stay hopeful. It might be difficult at first to adjust your thought process (since you've been thinking and asking yourself the same style of questions for awhile), but is the results are worth it.
Another positive thinking tip is to keep a record of all the things you are grateful for in a gratitude journal. This could be as easy as keeping a little journal by your bed and writing down everything you are thankful for that happened to you that day. Just jot down a page or a certain number of things that you are grateful for in your life. What you write down can be as simple as "I'm thankful I woke up this morning" or "I'm thankful it was a sunny and beautiful day". I remember once I wrote down “I am grateful I caught the bus to work just in time today” and then the next day I wrote “I am grateful I missed the bus because it gave me time to read the newspaper in a cafe while I waited for the next bus.” If you apply this into your every day life, you will start to look at life with an optimistic attitude, helping you remain more positive.
The last of my positive thinking tips is to jot down what you want in your life to come about. Write it out in pain-staking detail. I wrote down as much as 10 pages of specifics on my desired life. I described where I wanted to live, how much money I wanted to make, what I wanted to do for work, and all the wonderful places I would travel to. Doing this may take some time, but it will make you feel so excellent and so determined to make your dreams come true, that I strongly recommend you find the time to give it a shot.
Stick to these easy tips and soon you see that your disposition about life will shift for the better. Remember, you control your thoughts, your thoughts controls your emotions which will help control your desired outcomes all with positive thinking.
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