In today’s life when one is thronged with worries and tensions all around, it is very difficult to maintain a positive attitude. And often the more you try and be positive, the more it seems the negative energy around you gains strength. So here are 7 ways to change our modus operandi, be positive and work towards a healthier lifestyle.
Do Not Wait for Happiness.
Do not wait for good things to happen to you. You need to work towards happiness. You need to create a happy environment around you today to remain happy tomorrow. This is called an attitude. If you adopt a positive attitude, life becomes a rewarding game instead of a challenge to ‘get through.’
Clarify and Prioritize
Learn to know what you want. If you know what you expect from yourself, your future becomes clear and your goals become attainable
• Clarify your purpose : A purpose is something you fulfill each moment when you are in balance with your life. (A purpose is a simple, positive statement of why you are here). A purpose isn’t a goal statement, which one can achieve.
• Discover your purpose: by identifying & prioritizing your most important roles in life (at home, at work, community etc) List the positive qualities that you aspire to possess: Honesty, Philanthropic, Accommodating, Tolerant etc.
• Visualize your future, with a clear picture in your mind of what you want to accomplish in your lifetime (you can become what you think you are and what you see). One of the most powerful techniques for achieving life goals is visualization (creating a mental image of something happening in future). Believing in and seeing your dreams can motivate you to become what you want to be.
• Set goals for yourself (To help your dreams for the future become a reality, you need to set short & long term goals) to stay on course.
To provide steady fuel for your energy, create a list of long term goals to be accomplished in life time & break them into several interim short term goals to help you chart your progress.
Be Resilient
Resilient people are those who face setbacks but ultimately, with perseverance, recover from them. Try and be strong and face life’s difficulties as challenges; respond accordingly with action, rather than with fear, self-pity, inferiority or blame. While life can be very challenging, an important step in becoming more resilient is to develop the habit of positive self talk and to remind yourself that you are strong and can grow stronger and wiser as you handle life’s challenges.
Self Pep Talk
One’s inner dialogue is one’s biggest strength and critic. Listen to your inner self and talk to it. Motivate yourself rather than getting motivated by others. It is the inner voice that makes us critical of ourselves. Rule your inner voice!
Laugh Away
Humor is the best medicine. Make laughter a part of your day. Laughter is known to be a mood elevator. When feeling low, read funny stories or go through a joke book. Allow yourself to open up. See the funny side of things and you will realize, life is a complex, yet funny game.
Seize the day
Carpe Diem, as the proverb goes. Always enjoy the moment. Do not worry about your past or future. Live for the day. What has happened is irreversible and what will happen is unknown, so try and enjoy what you have. Like someone has rightly said:
“The past is history, the future is mystery.
Today is a Gift, That is why we call it the Presentâ€
Be an Optimist
This is the golden rule to maintaining a positive attitude. Always believe in yourself. Being an optimist does not only mean to see the brighter side of life. To be an optimist means to view the surroundings wherein you maximize your strengths and achievements and minimize your weaknesses and apprehensions.
It is difficult to change yourself in a day But at least give it a try. A positive attitude in life will help you go places. Just curb that fear in you and move towards the right path!!
Remember, I CAN and I WILL
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I CAN AND I WILL.
Thank you.
I love the “self Pep talk”. Good good good.
I am sorry for being a buzzkill, but people who are suicidal from not giving themselves enough pep talks or life goals or positive attitudes…? They are already searching for an answer. They have hidden strengths that they wish to unlock.
But it’s the ones who don’t have enough brain power to make enough differences… The ones who struggle to live regardless of any meds, friends, religion, therapist…. That’s the group who simply live day to day no matter what positive talks they give themselves. Some people are going to fail and die early, painfully, regardless of anything they say to themselves. My Mom probably will not live another few years because she has no money and hasn’t gotten work since she was betrayed by coworkers and family. My brother and I can’t afford to help her. I am a squatter who is lucky to have a relative who can help me temporarily. We were traumatized as children by a psychotic grandmother who taught cult-mentality religion to us. We are damaged and sick.
I’m not saying nothing will get better. It’s just so daunting that I doubt that it’s worth being alive, except for saving loved ones from the grief a suicide would cause. I would have killed myself in high school otherwise. Sometimes i wonder if it was a good idea not to.
I don’t know of anything i really want to do, day in, day out, for the rest of my life… that is also capable of providing me with the means to support myself.
I want to be free to take my time when i need to. I want to be free to go at my own pace, and pursue things i find interesting, important, or enjoyable (or all three). I want my life to be mine, and i’d be willing to work as hard as i can for that… but nothing less… and there is nothing i can do, to accomplish that level of achievement, without compromising the very goals which serve as motivation for the pursuit.
I’ve never been able to sufficiently articulate exactly what i mean, in this regard. I try, but no one ever seems to really understand it. Or they do, and in lieu of a valid solution, they tell me i must simply choose something, to which to indefinitely obligate myself, and just go with it.
But i can’t do that. And i can’t figure out how to make a mix of the right things in the right amounts, work.
So all this over-positivism and psychobabble, isn’t nearly as helpful as the “optimists” keep telling themselves, and others, to think it is.
Deciding to think it’s helpful, isn’t going to change the fact that it doesn’t solve my problems… and worse, doesn’t change any of the time lost to people insisting on offering invalid solutions, in place of useful ones.
People are going to pull the “lalalala! i can’t hear you!” until i die.
That’s why i think i should just go ahead and get it over with. I’m tired of watching people claim positivity, while blatantly preventing valid solutions, by ignoring the truth of the problems. I’ve seen how people are; they’re going to keep doing it until the problem magically goes away. Once i’m gone, my problems will no longer require solutions.