Morris - Positive Thinking: How To Stop Worrying and Start Living An Awesome Life

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Everything happens for a reason and many things can change your life. They can knock you down or they can lift you up, but at the end of the day, it all depends on you. Its all in your mind. You, your neighbor, your workmates and your friends all experience the same thing but what makes it different is how you accept, react to, and view the circumstance.

Every human experience has two dimensions, just like a coin with two sides. It has both a negative component and a positive one, and one weighs heavier than the other, each one bearing different results. When you flip a coin and hold it in your hand, you only see one side, but it doesnt mean that you only have one option. There is another side that exists, and it is up to you to flip it around to train yourself to become a positive thinker.

For example, if you did not get accepted during your job interview, there are two things that you can do. You can give up the job hunt and tell yourself that you are a failure. You can stop hoping that you will be successful in your career and you can stay right where you are. Or you can exit the interview room, hold your head high and tell yourself that the job isnt right for you; you will get something better. With this, you went on to look for another job hoping that you succeed in your endeavor. If you choose the first, you automatically lose the chance for success. It is depriving yourself of the opportunity to be happy. The opposite is true for the second option. Choosing the second option means taking steps to bring you closer toward your goal.

When you have been going through something negative for a long period of time, such as a divorce or hopeless job hunt, youve surely heard people telling you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. This clich statement is true in that the bad will not last forever, and that you need to have hope.

Believing that a positive thing would come out of something negative is not easy. It may sound miraculous event and people have the tendency to be skeptic about it. How can a bad thing yield a good thing? The thing is what you are going through is not really negative. The negativity of it all is just a product of your mind. It will only become negative once you let yourself believe that it is.

Though it is also true that optimism is not just something that can be achieved overnight, it is something that you can achieve with time and practice. You may have been thinking that optimism is just a matter of the mind. Well, theres some truth to it but not entirely. Optimism is also something that you do and say. It can be developed with the words you choose to use, and the thoughts you choose to let enter your mind.

Focus on your goal

In everything that you do, nothing will make you closer to your goal than focusing on it. Always keep your goal in mind so you dont lose your way. When you fail the job interview, dont think of it as losing your chance to succeed. Keeping the goal in mind will help you stay motivated as you work for it. For example, maybe you need to get job to support yourself, your family, buy a house, get that car youve dreamed about for years, etc. What is your motivation?

Focus gives you direction and when you know where you are going, even if you get lost along the way, you will still get back on track. Remember how people tell you that its better late than never? It practically means the same thing here. The ability to remind yourself of why you are doing something has power in itself and can reenergize you.

Gratitude

Gratitude goes a long way. I believe gratitude and happiness are closely tied together. When your grateful for things or qualities you possess youre much more likely to create happiness in your life. For example, you might be grateful for the conversation you had yesterday with a friend or relative; or you might be grateful for your ability to communicate effectively with your co-workers, explaining how your ideas are imperative to the success of a particular project. Even being grateful for the things people take for granted, such as food to eat or the ability to walk or being loved, can bring in a refreshing sense of joy and happiness.

Happiness is not always getting what you want when you want it. Often times, it means being content and appreciating what you have. This might get you asking how in the world you can appreciate something like failing a job interview. It does not mean youre a failure, it simply means that you were not the person they were looking for and that there is something better out there for you.

Maybe you can think of the interview as practice and with each interview you have, the more confident and better you will get; maybe you learned something from the interaction or from your experience that you can be appreciative of or grateful for, allowing yourself to improve for your next interview you and learn from your mistakes.