Be Positive About Yourself and the World Around You
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is impossible, and fear of failure is for defeatists. Never decide anything is impossible. Believe in yourself, believe in your ideas, and pursue them aggressively even in the face of negativity.
Remember, always to turn negative thoughts to positive thoughts. Never fear failure and always anticipate success. Love yourself, respect yourself, believe in yourself and do the same for others. There is absolutely nothing to gain from pessimism and worry except frown lines and stomach problems.
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”—Audrey Hepburn
First, you have to want it badly. You have to have a burning desire, a desire that rules your thoughts and actions. You have to have a goal, a goal that is well defined and you have to have a plan. Of course, you know that, you have heard it a thousand times! I am going to set out some guidelines here that have proven to be successful for thousands of people.
If you see it, you will achieve it!
You have to know what you want and want it so badly it hurts. Even if you are flat broke, you have to visualize yourself having money. You are the only one that can make it happen. You have to convince yourself that you can achieve your goal. You have to believe in yourself. You have to be determined. You have to be obsessed with it. You have to taste it, feel it, know that it is in you to get rich, to be that person. Do not let what others say discourage you. Shake it off. Ultimately, you are the only one that counts when it comes to who you are and what you do.
“You can do as much as you think you can,
But you’ll never accomplish more;
If you’re afraid of yourself, young man,
There’s little for you in store.
For failure comes from the inside first,
It’s there if we only knew it,
And you can win, though you face the worst,
If you feel that you’re going to do it.”
— Edgar A. Guest
You are probably saying that this is BS, that no matter how hard you think, no matter how often you say to yourself, “I am rich, I am successful”, it is not going to make a difference. But the power of positive thinking has been proven time and again. Think positively, you cannot lose.
If you get in the habit of thinking positively about yourself, your inner journey will reflect outwards. Love yourself, say to yourself, repeatedly, “I am successful, I am worthwhile, I am rich, I am the person I want to be because I….” Perhaps you had teachers in your childhood that made you write “I will not talk in class,” or some such thing 100 times. Thinking positively, affirming yourself and believing in yourself is the equivalent of writing on the board 100 or 1000 times.
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Did you ever play make-believe as a child? As a child, your imagination is unfettered. You can have imaginary friends. You can pretend you are a queen, a princess, a cowboy, a superhero. My parents always told me that the holiday that fell on my birthday was my own special holiday. A holiday created just for me. I believed it. Unfortunately, I still believe it so am always disappointed when my birthday rolls around and nobody else realizes that it is my special holiday.
The bottom line is that when you are a child, imagination rules, and when you grow up, you forget what that was like. You stop imagining and start lamenting. You have to tap back into that imagination. Remember what it was like and imagine yourself as the successful person you dream of being.
As an adult, you have to practice at imagination. You have to get that imagination magic back. Do it by dressing the part, do it by repeating your affirmations to yourself over and over again. Every highly successful person in history was a dreamer, had a vision and saw that vision as reality. It is a step of faith, faith in yourself, in your ability to be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve.
Great opportunities abound, the Internet has created thousands of new opportunities. Information is within the reach of anyone that wants to learn. Millionaires are being made every day. New ideas, new products, and new ways of reaching people offer limitless opportunities to grab the golden ring and achieve success. You may not become a millionaire, in fact, I suggest being practical in setting your goals, once you achieve the first one, you can always set the next one.
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”— Orison Swett Marden
You cannot approach life with a scattered approach. One day one dream, the next day another, every day the dream better or bigger than the one before does not work. You have to KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND GO AFTER IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY. You have to be single-minded in your pursuit. You have to believe in your goal and the steps you are taking to achieve it. You have to be willing to put your plan into action and you have to have the right mix of practicality and dreams.
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
You cannot, dare not be afraid to dream. If you truly believe in your idea, in your concept, in your goals, you need to put everything you have into it. You have to turn off the naysayers, turn the volume off on negative thoughts and negative input.
Do not let yourself be discouraged by what others say. If it feels right to you, do it. Negative comments need to be dismissed, negative thinking needs to be avoided at all cost. Negativity is your enemy and unfortunately, sometimes the negativity comes not only from within, but also from those closest to you. Block negativity out! Protect your personal bubble. Don’t let anyone pop it!
Being a dreamer is not an easy task, great dreamers have been ridiculed, rejected, laughed at. Great dreamers have met with countless failures on their road to success, Edison, Einstein, Lincoln, Mathatma Gandhi, John and Robert Kennedy, Albert Schweitzer, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Franklin Roosevelt, and so many others from history.
This is simply a list off the top of my head, but the list is endless. Every great leader has a dream. Every successful person has a dream. The dreamer’s success comes not from merely having a dream, but from having the courage to pursue that dream against all odds.
Find your dream and stick to it. Hold your dream in your heart, act on your dream, see it, feel it, know that you and your dream are inseparable. See your dream. Be your dream. Do what you dream of doing.
How you see things makes a tremendous difference in the way you live, the decisions you make, and the way you respond to situations. How do you see things? How do you see yourself and the world around you?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
If you are like me, you probably have had your share of trials and tribulations. You have failed at things, perhaps you have struggled against depression, alcoholism, lifelong poverty, a bad marriage, a shit career. You are not alone. The old adage, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” is true. Embrace your past failures as experience to build your new self on. Use what you have learned as building blocks to success. You know what didn’t work. Now you will create a plan that does work. You will stick to it. You will believe in yourself, in your own abilities, in the possibilities and opportunities that you can take advantage of to achieve your goals.
Do some research on your heroes, I guarantee you that all have encountered misfortune before achieving success. There are the odd few that were born into money, that have been successful, that have been leaders but the most inspiring stories, the greatest leaders in history all struggled with life early on and found ways to overcome difficulties and realize their dreams.
Dreaming and desire are important. The power to envision success and think positively is important. Believe that you can achieve what you want to achieve, believe in yourself and believe in your own capacity to achieve your goals.
Thinking positively is not the be-all and the end-all. I am not advocating that you bounce around in a Pollyanna world wearing rose-colored glasses. Positivity is like anything else, if it does not come naturally to you, you need to learn it. You may need to work at it. Positive thinking should be your go-to, a habit that you acquire and indulge in every day.
You have to act positive in addition to merely thinking positive. You have to see it (think positive), be it (be positive), do it (act positive – do positive things). You are what you see, be, and do and you can change yourself and your world one action at a time. Put energy into acting and being positive and you will reap the results.
There are some very basic positive emotions that we all have at some point in our lives. Cultivating these emotions and being aware of them will help increase your positive thinking awareness.
- JOY
- LOVE
- AWE
- PRIDE
- EXCITEMENT
- GRATITUDE
- ENTHUSIASM
- AMUSEMENT
- HOPE
- HAPPINESS
- INTEREST
- PLEASURE
- ACCOMPLISHMENT
- SERENITY
Words have unbelievable power, they are the way we express ourselves, our thoughts, our emotions. Words, spoken to yourself or to others have the power to create, to convince, to motivate and to destroy. We put into our words our intelligence and our words become reality. Jesus said, “Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away until all are fulfilled.” It is no different with our own words; words have power, whether negative or positive, strong or weak.
You will find a table of about 500 positive words in your exercises if you are stuck for ideas. 🙂
SEEBEDO Your Positive Opportunist
SEE the positive in your life and in the world around you. Focus on the positive.
BE positive about yourself and others.
DO positive things to enhance your life and the world around you. Talk positively, think positively, and act positively.
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