It is not easy to maintain a positive outlook. However, it helps us throughout life in many ways. When we think positively, it will lead us to achieving positive results! It will help us to take positive action and to channel our thoughts and energy positively. In doing so we reduce stress and set ourselves on track for success!
If we think that we will not succeed in a task, we will not be eager to start, will not put our best efforts towards it, will not seek support from others and may take longer to complete.
On the flip side, if we approach a task positively, we will do the necessary research, take pride in putting our best effort into seeing it through too completion and ensure that it is a job well done.
Positive and negative thoughts can become self-fulfilling prophecies: what we expect can often come true.
Positive thinking has many merits. Positive thinking leads to positive actions and outcomes. As a positive thinker, you focus on the positive aspects of a situation. You have hope and faith in yourself and others, and you work hard to see that actions and outcomes are successful.
Other people will be attracted to you as you will motivate them, and this will lead them to providing help if you need it.
What this all boils down to is that positive, optimistic people are happier and healthier. They will most likely be more successful than people who think negatively.
The key difference between positive and negative thinkers is how they think and the actions they take when faced with life events and making decisions.
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And in that spirit, 5 positive quotes to keep you motivated….
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
– Zig Ziglar
A negative outlook is dangerous.
When you say, “It can’t get any worse!”
You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.
― Kamand Kojouri
The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty.
What I see is water that can save someone's life.
― Abhijit Naskar
We have much to be grateful for even while living through a pandemic.
Rudy Francisco's fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty in Helium, reminds us how much we have to thankful for on a daily basis as we travel through life.
On May 26th, 2003,
Aaron Ralston was hiking,
a boulder fell on his right hand,
he waited four days,
he then amputated
his own arm with a pocketknife.
On New Year’s Eve,
a woman was bungee jumping,
the cord broke,
she fell into a river
and had to swim back to land
in crocodile-infested waters
with a broken collarbone.
Claire Champlin was smashed in the face
by a five-pound watermelon
being propelled by a slingshot.
Mathew Brobst was hit by a javelin.
David Striegl was actually
punched in the mouth by a kangaroo.
The most amazing part of these stories
is when asked about the experience
they all smiled, shrugged and said
“I guess things could’ve been worse.”
So go ahead,
tell me you’re having a bad day.
Tell me about the traffic.
Tell me about your boss.
Tell me about the job you’ve been trying to quit for the past four years.
Tell me the morning is just a townhouse burning to the ground and the snooze button is a fire extinguisher.
Tell me the alarm clock
stole the keys to your smile,
drove it into 7 am
and the crash totaled your happiness.
Tell me.
Tell me how blessed are we to have tragedy
so small it can fit on the tips of our tongues.
When Evan lost his legs he was speechless.
When my cousin was assaulted
she didn’t speak for 48 hours.
When my uncle was murdered,
we had to send out a search party
to find my father’s voice.
Most people have no idea
that tragedy and silence
often have the exact same address.
When your day is a museum of disappointments,
hanging from events that were outside of your control,
when you feel like your guardian angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago
and just decided not to tell you,
when it seems like God
is just a babysitter that’s always on the phone,
when you get punched in the esophagus by a fistful of life.
Remember,
every year
two million people die of dehydration.
So it doesn’t matter if
the glass is half full or half empty.
There’s water in the cup.
Drink it and stop complaining.
Muscle is created by lifting things
that are designed to weigh us down.
When your shoulders are heavy
stand up straight and call it exercise.
Life is a gym membership
with a really complicated cancellation policy.
Remember,
you will survive,
things could be worse,
and we are never given
anything we can’t handle.
When the whole world crumbles,
you have to build a new one
out of all the pieces that are still here.
Remember,
you are still here.
The human heart beats
approximately 4,000 times per hour
and each pulse,
each throb,
each palpitation is a trophy,
engraved with the words
“You are still alive.”
You are still alive.
So act like it.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium
In the comment section share with us something you are grateful for today.
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