Replace the Negatives in Your Life with Positives and Move Your Life Ahead
Many of us are not aware of the amount of negative influences in our lives. We are often bombarded with negative messages from the media, with people around us, and the most damaging of them all, ourselves. It is right for us to have motivation in order to move our life ahead.
First step of the process in replacing negatives with positives in our lives is to make a decision to start looking for the negative messages and ways to replace them with positive ones. You must have a goal setting and motivation to do this. Decide that you will focus on the positive in this world.
Goal Setting helps with Motivation
Begin to drastically cut down on the amount of news you take in. Most people start their day with the news. Basically, most of the news is bad news like fires, floods, etc., and then it is on to traffic and weather, which can also stress the negatives. By the time you finish your coffee, you have had enough bad news to last a week and it is probably giving rise to a lot of negative vibes. It becomes the central task of anyone interested in actualising their enormous potential to become involved in the process of attitudinal transformation, thus, giving you so much stress wherever you are. Do you think bad news make you want to open the door and greet the new day with a smile? Quite the opposite, I guess. How about the way we end the day? Many of us watch the news before going to bed and get a big dose of negative information just before trying to go to sleep.Now, we wonder why there are a lot of people having trouble sleeping. The mood we are in before we go to sleep carries over to the next morning, so you are setting yourself up for starting the next day in a bad mode. You should have a mind-set that you must always think positive and have it in your life every moment of your life. Odds are, you don’t need all that negative information you are taking in from the news, and you will function just fine without it.
Replace the news you were taking in with such things as, motivational tapes and uplifting music, that stress good news. Also reading empowering books helps a great deal. Books can be a fantastic way to recharge your life. Look for success stories, biographies of successful people, etc. and see what works for you. You will begin to feel better right away and become one of your achievements.
The next step in replacing the negatives in your life is to limit the amount of TV you watch. A recent study showed that 78% of the people watching TV are not interested in the program they are watching at any given time. So watching TV is probably making you bored at best, and taking you away from activities that would be more fun. Prime time is the period when most people are watching TV; you can make it your prime time by turning off the TV and using that time to move your life ahead. Have a goal setting to that every now and then.
Next, you need to limit your exposure to negative people. Most people don’t realise how draining it is to be around negative people, but they drain your energy and spirit in many ways. Negative people pull you down, so work to remove them from your life to the extent you can. Never get involved in the office pity party, or complaint sessions that come your way. Seek out people that support you and that you feel good being around and use these people to replace the negative people in your life. Being with support people that makes and encourages you to be happy is the best thing to do. Remember, happiness makes your mind and thoughts clear.
Most of us generate lots of negative self-talk that our minds accept as the truth and results in our being held back in many ways. We focus on our shortcomings, our problems, and spend our time predicting more bad news for ourselves, generating lots of fear and worry, while undercutting our ability to try new things, etc. Begin to focus on the positive aspects of you. What are your unique strengths, what have you accomplished, how are you different and better than other people? You can use visualisation and affirmations to build images of yourself accomplishing the things you want and use these to replace the negative images. Give yourself lots of credit for everything you do right, so you are getting even more positive news about yourself. Also, set aside three minutes every day to think about all the good things you have in your life right now. Always remember that everytime you think of positive thoughts to yourself and to others as well, will you have success in every endeavour you might encounter. It is better to follow your heart and see what’s inside you to give you happiness. The process of thinking of the good things in your life will generate good feelings for you that will last much of the day.
Don’t forget to take care of your body. Eat healthy, cut out some bad habits, and get regular exercise in order to boost your self-esteem, while building your strength and endurance, so you can accomplish more. Motivation is what you really need.
Helping others will also help you feel better about yourself. Take time to get involved in a charity, animal shelter, or other activities that help others. You will get good feedback from others and develop a genuine sense that you are a good person. What you put out comes back to you, so make sure it is good that goes out. Have a goal setting on your mind and follow it from time to time.
Motivation and Goal Setting will increase your happiness
By replacing the negatives in your life, with positives, you will make yourself and probably the world a better place. You will feel better mentally and physically, as well as accomplish many of the things you wanted to. Nothing is ever accomplished without action, so start now to move your life ahead. Having motivation and goal setting will have you at your utmost success.