How to Stay Positive

How To Stay Positive

Secrets to maintaining a positive mental attitude, thought patterns and restoring optimism to
your life

- Accentuate the positives.
- Bright side and silver lining should become part of your vocabulary, losing words like loser,
cannot, not good enough from your everyday thoughts, actions, decisions and communications with others/self.
- Concentrate on ways to use your strengths and abilities and look for ways to improve your weaknesses.
- Do not get discourages, quit, give up, get put back on the negative track through hardship and setbacks. They could be the beginnings of great things to come.
- Do not wish problems away, but put a different spin on them, making it easier to address, approach and handle.
- Don't let the negatives in your life drag you down, think and live MORE uplifting positive mental attitudes and you will reap the reward!
- Don't take yourself too seriously.
- Engage in positive self-talk. Boost your own self-confidence and be your own flag-bearer.
- Find and infuse fun into everything and every corner of what you do, where and how you live your life.
- Harder to do, but IMPERATIVE: Banish negative thoughts from your mind and concentrate on the positives.
- Maintain a sense of humor.
- Maintain and sustain this lifestyle and mental state in all areas and aspects of your life... including success on the job.
- Master the balances in your life, internal, external and allow optimism, positive energy in, negative energy and influence, people, out. Having a well-balanced life will help you maintain a positive mental attitude. Prioritize and only do what you believe to be your purpose, concentrating all key efforts on the positive things, successes and outcomes.
- Optimize all chances and opportunities, finding ways to make even the most unpleasant task and item, more enjoyable and pleasure-filled.
- Visualize success, anticipate success not imminent fear of failure, disappointment or regret.

Even in and through Biblical musings and the expressions of King Solomon, considered a wise man in his own right, we hear the following words:
"Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it (the heart) are found the issues of life. For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he." Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 23:7