How to be a Positive Thinker
Whether you believe in the Law of Attraction, The Secret, the power of positive thinking,
or you think positive thinking is a bunch of new age bologna, few can
argue with the fact that people simply are happier and feel more
optimistic when they have positive thoughts. For those in sales,
positive thinking can lead to more creative thinking which can lead to
more closed sales.
Knowing how to think positively is as important
and wanting to. Here are a few steps to how to be a positive thinker
from the business world.
Here's How:
1. Determine Your Desired Outcome
- The
problem with many people is that they really don't know what they want
out of life or a particular situation. Take a moment a decide what it
really is that you want out of a life event. Clear intentions yield
clear results while fuzzy desires yield fuzzy results.
2. Make A List of Things Your Are Grateful For
- Tony Robbins, well known life coach and motivational
speaker, says that no matter how much money you may have in your
accounts, if you are not grateful, you are poor. Gratitude is an amazing
emotion in that it is almost impossible to feel negative thoughts when
you are focusing on things you are grateful for. If you make a
list of 10 things that you are grateful for everyday, you will put
yourself in a very positive mind set that will last your entire day.
3. Learn to Count to 5
- Most of
us spend our lives reacting to events. How we react is usually governed
by how we either learned to react or have reacted to similar events in
our past. But simply reacting does not allow any room for creative and
targeted thinking, Next time you find yourself in a situation that presents a challenge
to your decision to be more positive, hold your reaction and count to
5. This brief break will give you the opportunity to decide how you want to respond, instead of simply reacting.
4. Cut Back on the Nightly News
- Whichever
nightly news program you prefer, you probably are aware of how much
negative news is reported. Expose yourself to an abundance of negativity
and, like it or not, you will begin to be more negative.
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Negativity
is like a drug. The more you expose yourself to negativity and negative
people, the more you adopt negativity into your life.
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Instead,
try to surround yourself with positive people and positive exposures. If
you absolutely must know what's going on in the world, read the
headlines on an Internet news stream and only read those stories that
really effect your world.
5. Take Care of Yourself
- The
benefits of exercise, a healthy diet and getting enough sleep have been
well documented. But just knowing about all the benefits does nothing
for you unless you actually take action.
Daily action!
Someone
who can exercise but who chooses not to is no better off than someone
who cannot exercise. Daily exercise, when coupled with a healthy diet
and enough rest can do wonders for your outlook. When you feel good, it
really takes effort to make yourself feel bad.
6. Track Your Progress
- As
with any goal, the person who you become as you progress towards your
goal is more important than accomplishing the goal itself. As you move
towards being a positive thinker, expect that you will have as many
"negative thinking" days as you do "positive focused" days. But unless
you keep track of your progress, you may not even realize that the
numbers of days are shifting more towards the positive and away from the
negative.
What You Need:
A list of your goals
A journal
A commitment to living a more positive-thought based life.
