Face life with a Positive Attitude

Does this scenario sound familiar to you? You are at a gathering with friends and someone makes a comment to you that is derogatory. Here is an example: I designed and had been teaching a course for many years. A colleague taught the course one time and in a meeting of teachers announced what she thought was wrong about it.

In the past, when I was in a similar situation, I would get hooked and feel offended. My stomach would feel upset, I would feel tense and would withdraw. If I was feeling especially vulnerable, I would either doubt myself or feel angry towards the other person.

When situations like this occur, and if the ways we cope with negativity include drinking ...

People go through life living their lives based on a philosophy somewhere between these two extremes. On the one extreme we have the philosophy that life happens to you. That means we live in a continuously reactive state, responding to circumstances that have been thrust upon us. And on the other extreme we have the philosophy that life is what you make it. That everyone is a master of their own fate, and nothing happens unless you make it happen.

Often through life we will even sway somewhat between those two extremes. Sometimes feeling that our lives are out of control and nothing we do or say will change it. Other times feeling like everything we do has a dramatic effect ...

Changing your life may seem hard to achieve overnight. There are steps we need to undergo for you to change the areas you want to change in your life.

Attitude and outlook in life are major factors if you really want to change. You should have a positive attitude and mindset in order to become effective in your vision of changing your life.

You must determine first the best ways on how to change your attitude and mindset positively. You don’t need to change everything about yourself at once. For instance, changing a negative habit slowly can help you change for the better.

Counting your blessings is one way of changing your outlook in life. Sometimes, we just forget how fortunate we are ...

Why it’s important to surround yourself with positive thoughts & people

Surrounding yourself with positive role models can have a dramatic effect on your whole mindset and how you look at life itself. My friend around the same time I was leaving the army had recently been medically discharged from the British army for a much more serious injury. Unfortunately he had lost one of his legs below the knee around the same time I started my rehabilitation 7 months previously. Rather than give up and except that this is how his life had to be, he redeveloped his body and with the help of the army they rebuilt him a prosthetic leg. He told me he was out jogging and ...

Many people learn about the law of attraction, get excited about the possibilities, and after a few weeks get discouraged and give up. What happened? What went wrong? Isn’t the law of attraction guaranteed to get results? It is, but for most of these people the problem is that they haven’t learned to feel every moment as a miracle.

When you learn to experience life as a series of miraculous events, you’ll begin to see greater success with the law of attraction. Why? For one, gratitude is essential to getting the results you want. Your thanks can be directed at God, the universe, nature, or whatever force you believe is all around us - it doesn’t matter who you address, it ...

In the last week, a couple of friends have commented upon how best to deal with negativity. One of them questioned how you could get certain words or phrases out of your mind; you know those type of annoying negative comments that you wish you had never heard, but you did, and then they just go around and around in your brain? Or things which you have just thought as opposed to heard and you keep chewing over them again and again?

The other issue was to do with the way in which associating with negative people can leave you feeling pretty low as well. This friend passed the comment that she didn’t think she should spend so much time with ...

There have been some amazing articles written that are based on keeping our self-esteem up while proceeding forward without allowing any negativity to creep into our environment. The people writing these articles all have one thing in common. To inspire us to feel amazing about every situation that comes our way.

A couple of years ago, we were promised an incredible amount of things that would help each and every one of us prosper, enhance our businesses, keep our heads above water, and be safe. To date, I have not seen one of those promises fulfilled.

Since these unfulfilled promises have left some of us feeling anxious and totally consumed, the same conversation is being heard almost everywhere you go. ’This economy.’ ...

There has been so much written about the importance of thinking positively, and having a positive attitude. Thousands of people annually spend millions of dollars on courses, self-improvement books, tapes, etc., to find out more about how their attitude impacts their actions. However, while so many people read, listen to, and attend seminars about this topic, very few actually incorporate these teachings into their everyday routine and thought mechanisms.

Having a positive attitude should actually be referred to as having a winning attitude. This type of attitude propels an individual into being the best he can be, and performing to his highest expectations. A winner is always going to be a part of the solution, while others are often a major ...