How To Change Your Thoughts To The Positive

How To Change Your Thoughts To The Positive
31st March 2009
Author: goalseeker

Although words themselves have no power they do have a great influence over our reactions to them. Words create thoughts and the saying, 'change thoughts change life', takes on a new meaning. Words or the thoughts they create, have been used to drive people to give up their lives in the name of their country, but on a lesser scale as far as most people are concerned, they have formed thoughts that create the character and personalities of individuals.

I do not know about you but if I look back on my childhood I was continually told, 'do not do that' or 'you cannot do that' by my parents and later by the teachers in the various schools I attended in the name of discipline. I think schools should devote time to developing positive thinking in our children. It would seem that people are more interested in correcting what children do wrong rather than commending them for what they manage to do right.

I recall that this did not do a great deal for my self-confidence for every time I was and to an extent still am faced with a situation my first thought tends to be 'why I cannot do it'. It is really only when individuals are exposed to management consultancy, business leadership and team building that they have a change of attitude sometimes through leadership development programs.

When I look back I realise that I had what is termed a strong personality as a child, I always wanted to be the leader at sport and ended up as the head boy in my final year. I suppose even then I was kicking back at authority and trying to impose my personality on my life by trying to think positive about my life. For every one of our positive children there are a thousand who who will always think of reasons why they cannot do a task. They carry this negative attitude into the adult life and fail to achieve most things in life. responding to the negative words fed to them as children they feel that life is passing them by.

So when they are told to change their attitude or to think positive thoughts - what is their immediate reaction?

'I cannot do that!'

The mistake many people make is that they think that they have to change negative thoughts to change life. Maybe you also have been told, by a management consulting team, that to make progress you have to take your negative thoughts and change them to positive thoughts?

I have some good news for you if that is the case, maybe that is also what is holding you back in your self improvement.

It is not easy to change attitude and re-programme your thoughts because they are your thoughts and they have been established by a constant drip feed over the span of your whole life.

Another theory is that when you have a negative thought - immediately change thoughts change life. Well with no disrespect to the teachers of that particular theory, I would find it very difficult to change my thought process when my negative thought is paramount and preventing me from doing something.

So what can you do?

Have you planned any social activity lately that took up all of your thoughts, such as a holiday. I can almost gurantee that in doing so you did not have a negative thought and if you did it was quickly replaced? Your mind was so filled with positive thoughts that you did not even consider being negative.

Planning the good events in life fills your mind with thoughts of happiness, perhaps laughter, when you are in that frame of mind there is no room for negativity.

That's the answer to negative thoughts. Don't try to change them, replace them.

At the start of each day look at what you have to do, even if you are in a mundane job doing the same thing every day. Whatever task you perfom in your daily work there is always something good if you look for it, determine now to duplicate that feeling at work today.

Look back on your day and select the best thing that happened to you during it. It may be something your have done or said or something that has been done or said to you but find one thing. It does not have to be a leadership development program, I do not mind what it is and we all have something good that happens sometime in a day that lasts between 15 and 18 hours. Write it down.

In the future you can glance back at your diary and you will read all the good things that have happened in your life, and I guarantee that if you are feeling low at the time you will quickly feel on top of the world.

Try it. It is FREE and it works, and as you read your successes you will find that change thought change life is true for you.


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Following a lifetime career in Direct Sales with many years as a senior manager David left his lucrative career behind to help others achieve their life goals through a series of seminars and lately through his books, Articles and Blog, his mission is to help as many individuals as possible achieve their life time ambitions with his book ' The First Step ' laying the foundations. Grab his FREE E-book NOW
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