13. Be Positive About Yourself
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." - Joyce Brothers
Do you want to have more success in life? Yes? Then become more positive about yourself and your capabilities and potential in life. Become more positive about what you deserve and what you can achieve. When you develop a positive mindset about your worth and capabilities, you are much more likely to put in the work that helps you become successful.
This is all about confidence. Confidence is the belief that you can rely on something. It is positive belief about something. Self-confidence, therefore, is the positive belief that you can rely on yourself and expect good things from and for yourself. Develop your
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Their mindset and attitude will rub off on you and help you become more positive. But, if you surround yourself with negative people, their mindset and attitude will also rub off on you and drag you down into being a loser in life.
15. Being Positive Is Good For You!
"We know the negatives hurt you, and what we’re now starting to get is scientific evidence that positives actually help you." - Dr. Phil
On the Doctors, Dr. Phil said that we have a lot of studies on how negativity affects us - well, negatively. It affects our health negatively and our mindset negatively. This is well-known and easy to see. Anyone who is predominantly negative seems to struggle with their health more than others.
But, he also said that we are now starting to get evidence that positivity can affect you in a positive way, both your health and your mindset. I really believe the placebo effect has something to do with this. The way you view your world and yourself - either positive or negative - can have an effect on your body. (Read 'You Are The Placebo ' to learn more.) When you are positive, you are more likely to maintain positive thoughts about yourself and your health.
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She has often said that her mother gave her advice to be positive, and she 's used it. It 's hard to argue that she has had a great life and is a positive influence on many people, so the advice seems to be working for her! So, accentuate the positive in every situation and be optimistic about what is to come. Focus on the positive instead of the negative and live a happier and more humorous life.
17. Be Powerful With Optimism
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James
Negative people often think they are more powerful than positive people, but that 's not true. Positive people are more creative, more willing to take chances, stronger in tough situations, more willing to do what needs to be done, and less emotional about what has happened in their life because they don 't feel as attacked as negative people do. All of those things make them stronger in every
Award-winning author Mandy Hale once stated, “Without negativity, life would be amazing.” However, this statement does not always prove to be true. Today’s modern community generates a judgement that negative experiences will ruin your life, but studies show that negativity can actually result in positive change. For example, negativity can positively change teenagers actions, introduce teenager’s to more supportive environments, and help fix broken relationships.
All of our emotions play a big role in our lives. Even though it does not feel like it at the moment, negative feelings can be a good thing.If we never become sad, angry, or scared we would not be able to appreciate the true value of happiness, we would only focus on ourselves and happiness, and we would become less alert to threats and dangerous situations around us.
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of the speech “Smile or Die,” she uses this speech to inform her listeners about the ideology of mandatory positive thinking and how it is not always the answer. Ehrenreich talks about what people are forced to learn and how they are forced to think: if they want something bad enough, no matter what that thing may be, that wishing for it and having a positive attitude will put it in their possession. Wanting something bad enough is all it supposedly takes, yet Ehrenreich has an opposite perspective and she educates her audience on her opinion of “thinking positively” using her own personal experiences such as cancer, background knowledge and real-life examples. She wants people to understand that being positive
If someone thinks negatively towards something the outcome will not be good, and vice versa. Thinking you can achieve the American dream is a major key in doing so, and some Americans are already on the right track. In the U.S., a survey showed that 36 percent of Americans say they have achieved the dream, and another 46 percent believe they are on the path of achieving it. It is not so easy, though, to always look on the bright side. Sometimes it seems as if nothing is going right; that is when negativity occurs. People can argue that mindset has little impact on the outcome, or that it does not matter how positive a person is because some things are just not meant to be. An article, however, proves this wrong. The paper argues how negative emotions prevent humans from flourishing; it also states, “if your ratio of positive to negative emotions is greater than 2.9013 to one, you will flourish both physically and psychologically.” If a person believes in themselves, they are more likely to accomplish their
Positive experiences can make someone a better person because people can learn from those positive experiences and use it to help someone else become a better person. One example is “One positive by-product of the Diamondbacks injury list has been the experience gain
The narrative piece, How full is your bucket, positive strategies for work and life, written by Tom Rath and his grandfather Donald Clifton, outlines a unique description of the impact of how sharing positive interactions with others (socially, intimately, in the work environment, and strangers) ensures a more fulfilling life. This book brings to light how negativity impacts your own life and the lives of individuals surrounding you. An interesting concept that was studied during the Korean War, the American captives were denies positive social interactions, and were denied support from loved ones (Rath & Clifton, 2009, p. 25). The soldiers were ultimately swayed to have a negative outlook and hopeless existence which unfortunately led to their demise. Negativity spreads to others like wildfire and takes away from your
...hey will not focus just on that because in life one cannot just focus on the negativity, they must balance it out with both good and bad. If one did not then many would be running through the motions of life, instead of experiencing them one at a time.
A negative attitude is a monster that attacks many people in my life. People who live with a negative attitude are always depressed and worried about what they face everyday. I see this feeling in many of my fellow swimmers, as well as myself. The monster attacks us when we are most vulnerable, working hard at practice. The monster jumps into our brains and begins to make us to see ourselves failing. When we begin to worry about failing, we leave no time for ourselves to think about how to succeed in finishing the workout. This horrid beast lowers our self-confidence and limits our chances to put forth a full effort. The beast will engage in people if they are down on themselves about not achieving the standards they had set forth. When a swimmer swims a race and adds a couple of seconds to his best time, he will get upset. That is the moment when the monster attacks. The negative-attitude monster will make this person believe that he could never go any faster and that he had wasted all of his practice time. Along with attacking one of us at practice, the monster attacks others through a skillfully thought out plan. The way the plan works is that the monster makes one person believe they cannot make it through the workout. This person then begins to talk negatively about the set being too hard or too long. The other swimmers who have not been attacked listen to the infected one. They subsequently begin to doubt themselves. Then, in a matter of minutes, the monster has successfully conquered a whole group of swimmers and makes them believe that they cannot succeed.
Research has shown that there are negative personality traits that can cause an individual to be prone to becoming depressed. An individual’s negative personality traits can lead them to be perceived more negatively by others, which leads them to feel hurt and rejected (Whitbourne, 2013, para. 9). This is simply because no one likes to be around someone who is consistently negative since they bring negativity into the environment which also brings down other people’s mood. It is...
General health throughout the years has been a widely researched area of study with many different studies conducted. One study that was conducted at health daily stated that the effect of positive
Positive Psychology is the strengths and virtues a person or a community poses that lead to its optimal performance and allow it to thrive.This is a beneficial study that has the chance to improve the lives of many as well as preventing some negative situations. This review looks into what Positive Psychology is and how it impacts our lives. The sources I selected look into a broad overview of Positive Psychology, and it looks into deeper more specific aspects of Positive Psychology. This review has to lead me to believe that if we see ourselves and the future in a positive way it will have a positive effect on our lives.
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In order to find success, both professionally and personally, people often have to navigate through uncomfortable situations. One of the most uncomfortable situations we may have to go through in life is dealing with negative people. While they may be difficult and awkward to handle, negative people are common in all walks of life and all lines of business. Here are 5 tips that can help turn a negative relationship into a positive one:
I frequently think about the effects of words on the healing body and mind. One of the things that I focus on in my therapeutic pursuits is "positive self talk," wherein I try to take those automatic negative statements my brain tosses out and change the dialogue to something more productive.
Stop nurturing negative emotions, thoughts, and beliefs – A good way to avoid nurturing negative thoughts is to stop comparing yourself with others. We should avoid situations that will trigger our temper and try to get rid of the negative thoughts by replacing them with positive thinking and positive thoughts.