How to Harness the Power of Positive Thinking
The key to achieving more in Life.
There is no question that positive thinking can be beneficial to your life and provide the fuel you need help to achieve your full potential. Positivity decreases the symptoms of depression and anxiety, ultimately leading to a healthier life along with increasing your life expectancy. It improves your resilience and self-confidence increasing the probability that you’ll making achieve your goals.
Moreover, it helps form deeper and stronger bonds and relationships with friends, family, and others important to creating a successful life. While you won’t be able to banish all negativity from your life, you do have the power to control your actions and make most situations better in some way. In other words, positive thinking is a skill and strategy that you can both practice and implement into your daily life leaving you happier, healthier and balanced.
To harness the power of positive thinking, follow these four steps:
Step One: Highlight and Reverse the Negativity
You must be cognizant of the thoughts running through your mind and aware of how they influence your current actions. Understand your triggers; and the things that ultimately set you back and place you into a downward spiral of negativity.
This means highlighting your skills, weaknesses, fears, or other things holding you back. The more you are aware of your satiation and fears, the better you can understand what you need to do to take your life in the right direction.
Step Two: Practice Gratitude
Take time to be thankful for your current life. Everything that it has provided you, even the negative, provides value to your life somehow. Take the time to recognize it formally.
For example, failure teaches you important things about yourself. Brené Brown, a clinical social worker, academic and public speaker said, “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
Expressing gratitude also allows you to recognize how much harder things can be. It enables you to realize that while the way may be rough and uncertain or it could change for the better at a moment’s notice.
Step Three: Get Involved with The Right Community
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you to stay positive. Stated differently, associate yourself with people that will multiply and add to your life and disassociate yourself from those who divide and subtract from your life. Those that drain your energy, create unwanted stress and anxiety no matter the relation should be avoided with no exceptions. The more you’re around them, the less likely you are to achieve your goals. For this reason, it’s important to set up your environment for success. Keep company with those that motivate you and work in environments that foster productivity.
Step Four: Reflect, Change and Evaluate
No one is perfect and learning to embrace the life of positive thinking is no exception. You will have moments of weakness, but your ability to recognize it and continue to move forward will make the difference.
As previously stated, it’s unlikely you will avoid all negativity. Furthermore, this shouldn’t be your goal anyway - its unobtainable. It’s about taking advantage of your current opportunities, improving, and making continued efforts each day. In the movie Creed, Rocky Balboa who was training Adonis Creed said, “one step at a time, one punch at a time, one round at a time.”
In the end, positivity is what allows you to endure hardship, recover from setbacks, and continue to progress toward the realization of your dreams no matter what life throws at you.
In his book, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life, Roy T. Bennett said, “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
Follow these four simple steps outlined above and you’ll live a more successful and positive life.
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