How to Stay
Positive: 12 Smart Habits.
As an individual, conquering challenge and failure is essential to the success of your daily life. You can learn to cultivate that resilience by training your brain to stay positive when times are tough and always.
Our brains are more
likely to seek out negative information and store it more quickly to memory
which is not always bad, Acknowledging problems and facing failures can lead us
to better solutions.
But don’t go overboard, and beat yourself up for your failures
or let yourself dwell in the negative.
By consciously
increasing our focus on the positive, we start to even the balance. We find a
happy medium where we can address failures and challenges without letting them
get us down, leaving us more motivated, productive, and likely to succeed.
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In this article, the
best, smartest and most effective habits for staying positive are given for you
to try.
I hope you will find
something helpful here.
1. Express
gratitude.
To store positive
events, reflect on what you're grateful for and why at least once a week. Write
down your blessings, such as the opportunity to pursue a career you love or a
family that supports you. If you prefer a daily habit, then keep a log of good
things that happened that day, keep it very short.
2. Find the optimistic viewpoint in a negative situation.
When in a negative
situation, always seek for what is good about the situation and find an
opportunity within the situation. When you're faced with challenges, it's
important to take stock of what's going well. Doing so is a whole lot better
than subbing about the situation. You need a bit of time to process the
thoughts and feelings that arise in situation because trying to force
optimistic thinking when you are still in an emotional turmoil or a bit shocked
usually don’t work that well.
3. Repeat positive affirmations.
The more often you
hear a message, the more likely you are to believe it. By repeating positive
affirmations with conviction several times each day, you are training your
brain to believe them. Over time, you'll start to internalize them. Repeat your
affirmations silently if you feel self-conscious. Tell yourself who you are and
what you are capable of doing. Choose two to three affirmations that represent
your values and goals, this will influence the way you interpret negative
events, making you more resilient.
4. Cultivate and live in a positive environment.
Who you choose to
spend your time with and the input you get from further sources will have a
huge effect on your outlook. You need influences in your life that supports and
lift you up instead of dragging you down to stay positive. So carefully
consider what you let into your mind. Let go of the negative influences and
spend more time with the positives sources or people in your life.
5. Start your day in a positive way.
How you start your
day usually sets the tone for the rest of your day. So start your day by moving
slowly, have an uplifting conversation with your family or friend or you spend
some time with reading or listening to inspiring and helpful articles or
podcasts over breakfast or during your bus ride to work then that can make a
big difference for how your whole day will go.
6. Mindfully move through your day.
When you spend your
time in the present moment then it becomes so much easier to access positive
emotions and to stay practical about what you can actually do about something
in your life. By moving slowly through your morning and hopefully through much
of the rest of your day it becomes easier to mindfully stay in the moment you
are in, this simplifying reconnection with the moment can have a very positive
effect on the rest of your day.
7. Go slowly.
7. Go slowly.
Slow down even for a
few minutes – even if you have to force it by walking, talking and eating
slower – then your mind and body calms down too. It becomes easier to think
things through clearly again and easier to find the optimistic and constructive
perspective.
8. Challenge negative thoughts.
You choose how to
respond, each time a negative thought arises. You can choose to dwell on the
thoughts or combat it by imagining the thought as separate from yourself, as
something you can observe and deconstruct. Get in the habit of distancing
yourself instead of dwelling. Challenge negative thoughts that are unfairly
self-depreciating. Practice interpreting negative event differently. Over time,
it'll become automatic and negative thoughts will be less likely to come up. No
one does this naturally; you have to learn and practice.
9. Don’t give in to Fear
A common trap when
you want to do something new is to get lost in vague fears about what could
happen if you actually took action. And so the mind runs wild fueled by fear
and it creates nightmare scenarios. Finding clarity by weighing the worst that
could happen which doesn’t take much time or effort and it can help you to
avoid much mind made suffering. And help you to get going, step outside of your
comfort zone and take that chance.
10. Add value and positivity to someone else’s life.
What you send out
there matters a whole lot, because you tend to get it back from the world and
the people in it. So give value and spread the positivity by Helping out, Just
listening, boosting the mood or encourage when someone has had a bad day or are
going through a tough time.
11. Exercise regularly and eat and sleep well.
11. Exercise regularly and eat and sleep well.
There is a big
impact a good night’s sleep or good workout can have when your thoughts are
pessimistic and you have a lot of tensions on the inside. It is much simpler to
think clearly and optimistically when your belly is full. So you should be
careful about these basic habits because they do have a huge effect either way
depending on how you manage them.
12. Learn to take criticism in a healthy way.
12. Learn to take criticism in a healthy way.
The key to criticism
is learning to handle it in a healthier way. By doing so your fear of it will
lessen and it will hurt less if you do get criticized.
There are steps to
handling criticism and they are:
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Don’t reply right away When you are
angry or upset, calm down a bit before you reply. Take at least a couple of
deep breaths or a little time to process the message before you respond.
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Really listen to the criticism, Try
to remain open and level-headed and figure out how this message can help you
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Remember that the criticism isn’t
always about you. Some criticism is helpful. Some is simply attacks or someone
lashing out because they are having bad day, year or job.
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Reply or let go; No matter the
content of the criticism, try to keep your reply level-headed and kind.
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