Positivity

  • Positivity

    How to Keep a Positive Attitude When You’re Feeling Negative

    “Positive minds create positive vibes that create positive lives.”

    ― Natasha Potter

    Negativity always finds a way to creep up in your life from time to time. It’s when negativity builds up too much or shows up too often that you have an obstacle to overcome.

    A negative attitude can hold you back from truly living your life. However, you don’t need to feel stuck because you can bring positive thoughts back into your life!

    How Negativity Can Hold You Back

    Negativity can hold you back in a number of ways. Have you heard the saying: “If you think you can’t, you’re right”? It’s true! Negative thoughts like this really do sabotage your efforts.

    The good news is that you can gain control over how you think. When you’re expressing complaints and negativity all the time, it not only affects you, but it also affects the people around you.

    Negativity, itself, can be the reason why you create roadblocks that don’t really exist! So it’s time to choose the positive (and, yes, it is a choice!).

    Manifesting A Positive Attitude

    When you adopt a positive attitude, you open yourself up to the wonderful world of possibilities. When positive energy is in the air, you’ll be able to transform your negative feelings and maybe even bring others out of their negativity clouds.

    Believe it or not, positive thinking is very powerful. It’s the driving force that steers your life into the direction of your dreams. Remember, your thoughts affect how you feel, and how you feel affects what you do, so if you can change your thoughts, you can change your outcome.

    “Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives.”

    ― Kevin Ansbro

    5 Ways to Keep Up a Positive Attitude

    How can you change your attitude? It’s easier than you think.

    Follow these tips to develop a positive attitude:

    Visualize

    When the negative thoughts come crawling into your mind, transform them with positive images. Visualize something that you find pleasing, peaceful, or exciting.

    Remember what your ultimate goals are and imagine what it feels like to achieve them. If you keep a vision or dream board, you may want to take a moment to look at it, as well.

    Write it down

    Keeping a journal has many positive effects. It helps you vent your frustrations, organize your life, and reflect on your innermost thoughts and feelings.

    Instead of focusing on the bad, use your journal to chronicle the things that have gone well in your life lately. Try keeping a daily gratitude journal to remind yourself of things that you appreciate in life.

    Relax

    Whoa, did I just tell you to relax!? Haha, yes.

    Though telling someone “to relax” is often the best way to rile them up further, it’s still good advice to consider if you’re telling yourself to relax. Especially after you’ve identified your negative state of mind.

    Negative feelings are bound to arise when you’re in a stressful state. It’s important to take time out of each day for yourself.

    This means that you need to adopt a relaxation method that works for you. Perhaps you can take a bath, go to church, attend a yoga class, or meditate. When you’re relaxed, a peaceful and positive mindset will likely overtake you.

    Read and write affirmations

    Grab a book with positive affirmations in it, or better yet, write your own. Affirmations are a powerful way to bring positive thoughts into your present state of well being.

    Affirmations are short statements in the present tense that remind you of positive attributes and goals in your life. Here’s an example: “I am strong and competent.”

    Live for the moment

    Live your life for the moment and let go of everything else going on in your life. Negative feelings can easily overwhelm you if you’re consumed by past failures or the fear of the future. When you concentrate on the present, your life becomes more peaceful and positive.

    “Being positive doesn’t happen by chance. It’s a decision.”

    ― Diamante Lavendar

    In the end, go easy on yourself. You don’t need to be your own worst critic, instead, try being your biggest advocate! Concentrate on your well being and you will develop a more positive attitude.

  • Positivity

    Turning Positive Thinking into Positive Action

    Positive thinking is a wonderful thing. Once you start to understand how your thoughts influence your feelings and behavior, you may wish to take more control over your situation by intentionally turning your positive thoughts into more actionable steps.

    This is actually something you can do by implementing some proactive strategies. Read on to discover how to go from positive thinking to positive action in your approach to life and goals.

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    Make It Known

    The concept of manifestation is a powerful one. It relies on the idea that your desires will come to you if you make them known, that what you believe you receive.

    This philosophy may or may not resonate with you, but the premise does have merit. By stating your intentions to the universe, you’re setting them into your subconscious and will be more likely to act on them.

    It’s sort of like affirmations for your goals and actions.

    Be Accountable

    Don’t stop at telling the universe of your plans. Tell the world. Let you friends, family and social media followers know of your intentions and goals.

    This will make you accountable for acting on them, rather than just wishing for them to become a reality. People are bound to ask you about your progress, and you’ll want to be able to give them a positive report.

    You can even ask some of your closest people to help hold you to your goals by checking in with you on a regular basis. If you’re a writer, keeping a blog of your progress might be a good way to maintain accountability, as well.

    Document It

    Along these lines, documenting your goal plan and progress is a fantastic way to implement positive thinking into positive action.

    If you decide to blog about your experience, your words offer written proof of your progress and push you toward completion. Taking photos is another awesome method for keeping track of your actions and pushing yourself further.

    Check In With Yourself

    Sustaining a goal is a difficult task. It’s easy to get excited during the planning stages when the idea is new. Once the novelty wears off and the hard work begins, it can be tempting to give up.

    Keep yourself on track by checking in during the hard times to remind yourself why it is you’re striving for this particular thing.

    Goals require motivation to come to fruition. Find your motivation, the thing that’s pushing you to keep going. Then remind yourself of it regularly.

    You might even want to make desire visible somehow. You can write it on your mirror in lipstick or place an inspiring photo next to your computer as a reminder.

    Find a Model of Success

    Choosing a successful person to model your behavior upon and to inspire you is a wonderful way to ramp up your efforts. It’s important to understand that you don’t have to be exactly like this person, but having a role model sure can help you to envision your goal.

    Choose a person in your life or one you’ve read about as your model. Study them to learn about their background, how they got to where they are, advice they offer and other such tidbits. This proof of success shows you it’s possible to accomplish your desires and gives you a sort of roadmap to make it happen.

    These tips should get you moving from positive thinking to positive action. Once you start taking action toward your goals, you’re likely to gain momentum and find satisfaction in each step you complete.

  • Personal Growth, Positivity

    9 Ways to Stay Positive Around Negative People

    You probably know more than your fair share of negative people! Some of them may even be your friends or family, which is difficult because you still love them and want to be around them.

    Since they’re everywhere, it’s important to know how to coexist with negative people. They can have an impact on your attitude and your day, but that doesn’t have to be the case.

    This post is going to outline a few ways you can focus on the good things and become positive influence, even if it seems like everyone around you has a negative outlook on life.

    Dealing with Negative People

    Ways to Stay Positive Around Negative People

    “You can only overcome a negative attitude with a positive attitude.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

    Practice these strategies to avoid allowing negative people to negatively impact your life.

    Try to influence others

    Understand that you can only control yourself, but you can influence others.

    You can’t snap your fingers and make the people around you take a more positive view of the world. But you can control yourself and how you choose to react to their negativity.

    You might even be able to sway people over to your way of thinking a little bit. Set a good example and be a positive influence on those around you.

    Be grateful

    One way to maintain a positive attitude is to remind yourself of the positive. When you’re feeling run down by the negativity around you, make a quick mental list of the things in your life that you’re thankful for. It will give your mood a quick boost.

    Remember that it’s not about you

    Everyone has their challenges and issues. There’s no reason to be upset that someone has a negative attitude.

    It likely doesn’t have anything to do with you at all. It could be circumstances in their life or their basic nature. Just keep on doing what you’re doing.

    You have the choice to be positive or negative

    You can choose to be affected or not by the people around you. Focus on yourself and keep your chin up. Take care of your business and let others view the world however they choose.

    Speak up

    Sometimes it can be helpful to tell people to just cut it out. Many people will push until someone calls them on their behavior.

    Have a frank talk with someone that’s perpetually negative. Maybe they’re not aware of the impact they’re having on others.

    Spend time with positive people

    Recharge your batteries with the positive energy of other positive people. Get away from those negative people and spend time with people full of positive attitude.

    It doesn’t take long to recenter yourself when you surround yourself with the right people. It’s amazing what a big change you’ll notice when you’re surrounded by others with the same goals and aspirations as yourself rather than negative people who will try to bring you down.

    “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.” 
    ― Joel Osteen

    Make the most of your time alone

    Make the most of the time you have to yourself. Do things you really enjoy doing, read positive affirmations, or watch feel-good movies.

    Put your attention on positivity. It can be like armor against negative people.

    Headphone can be your friend

    If the situation permits, put on some headphones or earbuds. What you can’t hear can’t bother you.

    Consider listening to a positive podcast or music that makes you feel good. If your work situation allows this, it would be silly not to take advantage of it.

    Stay away

    There are plenty of people in your life that are optional. Stay away from negative people that you don’t have to associate with. You have some control over who is part of your life and who is not.

    Negative people will drag you down if you let them. Take steps to minimize the impact they have on your life. Practice gratitude each day, and you can maintain a positive perspective. Block negative people out with headphones and stay away from as many negative people as possible.

    Negative people will always be around, but you can choose to deal with them and still be a positive person.

    “A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.” 
    ― Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady