Work hard,
stay positive,
and get up early.
It’s the best part of the day.
George Allen, Sr.
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“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice.
Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice.
Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
I have often been fascinated by people’s perspectives; the fact that two people can look at the same thing or event and experience totally opposite emotions.
I have seen siblings growing up in the same environment where one is adversely affected by something and the other continues with life as if nothing has happened.
I have seen people living in dire circumstances that encourage others that live in luxury.
I have seen people excel despite harrowing experiences.
I have seen the suffering of those living in close proximity to negative people and the ripple effect that it has on the spiritual temperature of a home.
I have often wondered if a person is born with a tendency to have a positive or a negative attitude.
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How many times are you thinking positive about yourself? Only by placing a positive continuation after “I am” that the “I am” in you can grow positively and enjoy life.
Why wait until tomorrow. Start to day by accepting yourself how you are and to treat yourself nicely. When you treat yourself the way you would like to have others treating yourself, you too may come to treat them the way you would love to be treated and cold come sharing a love which shall construct you positively, giving you renewed energy every day over and over again.
Always remember, the way you feel shall let others feel a certain way. Your positive attitude shall not only reflect your person’s mind and courage, it shall offer a mirror to the people you have contact with. Your positive attitude shall infect also other people and give you and them extra power.
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Each morning when the sun rises we should be happy when we can still sea the sun coming up and hear the birds sing.
Whatever we might have to do, we can look at it in the positive or in the negative way. Best we do take the day, like it comes and make the best out of it, wishing it shall attribute something extra to our life. We never know when our life shall end, so we better take every new day as a gift, able to add again something extra to our life and giving us once more the chance to make something of it.
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To remember:
Facing the responsibilities of the day ahead = challenge.
Negative thoughts make us feel tired, sick and often stressed-out before we even start our day.
What do you think about when you wake up in the morning? Are you worrying about something, stressing about all the things you don’t want to do, thinking about how awful the day is going to be?
Greet the day with a rousing, “Hello world. What an awesome day this is going to be!”
Try to bring some sunshine into your life with positive words.
Keep focusing on positive thoughts, and it will start to make an impact on your mood.
Fill up your brain with positive power, and you will feel more energetic.
Do not wait to develop a new habit, so practice your affirmations daily over and over again until you begin to feel positive.
When you are getting up, dare to say to yourself, your happy and enjoying life. Dare to face yourself and the work you have to accomplish that day.
Do know You can do it.
Don’t compare yourself to others.
Put something on in which you feel at your ease and can be yourself.
Believe in yourself and belief someone believes in you.
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Although we all encounter a host of neutral situations on any given day, we don’t all look at them in the same way.For instance, if a friend calls to cancel an appointment because she’s not feeling well, or someone you’re chatting to stifles a yawn in the middle of the story you’re telling, you could interpret it in two very different ways, depending on your frame of mind.
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One way we can work toward unlearning this negative habit is to make a conscious effort to choose a more optimistic view of things whenever there are several ways to interpret a situation or scenario.
In order to be more present, rather than constantly worrying about what could happen or what another person’s actions might mean, Hertel also recommends working on the development of attentional control through mindfulness meditation.
- Why You Should Fake a Smile: How Your Emotions Affect Your Student’s Learning (opencolleges.edu.au)
Stress causes changes in the hippocampus region that result in lack of neuron cell growth, along with cell death. This can happen as early as the fetal stage of development depending on the stress level the pregnant mother is under, along with outside influences of substance abuse. The pathology of children growing up in extremely stressful environments is affected early in their lives.The limbic system can shut down or go full steam ahead depending on outside factors. If a student feels happy, the limbic system, which involves intuition, math, logic, time, memory, and other learning processes will open up and be ready to receive. If the student is sad or stressed, the limbic system shuts down and the learning stops with it.
+Shaking off negative emotions is difficult, especially for those that are more sensitive than others. Devastating news can be difficult to process, let alone smile through for your students, but you must try to persevere for the children. While some ideas may seem silly or trivial to remove yourself from the stress, it can work to help get you through the day.
- Do not forget to eat. It may be the last thing on your mind, your stomach might be protesting the idea, but you need to fuel your body. Lack of nutrients causes the body to shut down, which in turn will cause more stress, negative emotions, and anger.
- Take deep breaths, no seriously, try it. Breathing in deeply causes your body to relax by triggering anti-stress hormones in the body. Sit up straight; breathe in deeply for a few minutes before entering the classroom.
- Write down one or two positive things in your life on a piece of paper, and tape it to your desk. Refer to it during the day when you are feeling blue.
- Think positively. Pushing negative thoughts out of your head will relax the limbic system’s pathological need to shut down. Make it a game; anytime a negative thought comes into your head, throw a positive one right back at it.
- Study Reveals Link Between Suicide and Sunshine, Study (scienceworldreport.com)
The effect of sunshine on suicides has been known since the early 1800s. In the latest study, the researchers found that lower rates of suicide are strongly linked with daily exposure to sunshine in the prior 14-60 days.According to the researchers, sunlight interacts with serotonin systems in the brain and strongly influences the serotonin-related behavior such as mood and impulsiveness. It is this behavior that plays a major role in affecting suicidal thoughts.- A Busy Mom?s Guide to Less-Stressful Life (ltdcommodities.com)
Nothing beats the feeling of waking up to the silence of early morning. This is the best part of the day to work on tasks that demand focus and crucial decision making skills. Remember that majority of successful people have the habit of waking up early. They always make sure that they are up right before anyone else in the house does.
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If you feel like you do not have enough motivation to do something important, then stop looking for motivations. Just do things in a small yet progressive manner. This way, you will find yourself progressing from one task to another even if you do not feel like doing it. Our micro-actions will serve as the best antidote for procrastination. It keeps us moving despite lacking the motivation to do so. Remember that as a parent you do not need to have motivation in everything that you do. It may seem sad but there are indeed times when you need to do things because you need to and find motivation in the thought that you are actually making things happen little by little.- Researchers explore postpartum depression now and earlier eras (ocregister.com)
In addition to typical depressive symptoms, postpartum depression may include feeling numb or disconnected from the baby; having scary or negative thoughts, including fear of harming the baby; and feeling guilty about not being a good mother, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.- Three Affirmations or A Stress- Less Day (livingenergyworks.com)
For affirmations to work it is necessary to be fully present in the moment and connect deeply with feeling rather than staying in the intellect and wishing for change.- 20 Common Habits Successful People Consciously Reject (lifehack.org)
- How to Feel Pretty (wikihow.com)
Every morning, when you wake up, go to the bathroom mirror, smile at yourself and say aloud “I am awesome” and “I am happy.” The more you say it the more you will convince your brain that it is true.- Guest Post: Breaking The Low Mood Cycle (captainawkward.com)
We can spend weeks or months or years in a poor mood, which doesn’t seem quite bad enough for us to call it a mental health problem, or a reason to seek professional help. It’s a funny thing – we don’t really trust our moods as valid emotional states – and really, something as transient and odd as a “mood” doesn’t seem like something that can be treated or cured.But remember how terrible you feel when you’re in a Low Mood? If we’re creative people, we may explain away the apparent drought in our creativity by saying “I’m just not in the mood to write/paint/draw,” while secretly panicking because what if we’ve lost our creativity? If we’re performative people – people who work in food service, retail, performance art, or another field where you need to project happiness and serenity to do your job – then expressing a Happy Mood when you’re in a Low Mood can feel like operating the most exhausting puppet show ever. It’s really hard to “just do you” when you just don’t feel like it.- Add an Extra Hour to Your Day (forwardthinking.ashford.edu)
A busy schedule prevents many people from going back to college or starting a new project. A lack of free time not only keeps you from achieving your goals, it can also cause stress and diminish your quality of life.But consider: no matter who we are, rich or poor, we all have the same 24 hours in a day. How you budget your 24 hours can be the difference between success and failure.
Are you a morning person or do you have to drag yourself out of bed in the morning? Mornings are tough for many of us because we just don’t want to face the responsibilities of the day ahead. Negative thoughts are already floating around in our heads and it makes us feel tired, sick and often stressed-out before we even start our day.
What do you think about when you wake up in the morning? Are you worrying about something, stressing about all the things you don’t want to do, thinking about how awful the day is going to be?
Before your feet even hit the floor, your negative thinking has already ruined your day and left you feeling tired and miserable.
Try saying some positive affirmations first things in the morning. When you wake up, greet the day with a rousing, “Hello world. What an awesome day this is going to be!” …
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When we are willing to look in ourselves and are willing to change ourselves so that a positive attitude can be our master, than we shall be able to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. taking on a positive attitude brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful.
With a positive attitude you not only will see the bright side of life, become optimistic, and expect the best to happen, you shall be able “to soar”. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing.
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If there´s anything I believe it´s that we have the power to define our future. It´s up to us whether we live a life full of happiness and abundance or misery and loneliness.
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You have to keep putting one foot in front of the other, day by day and stop worrying about the missteps that happen along the way. They´re just a normal part of life.- Instant Positive Attitude (thepragmaticreport.com)
Your thoughts are much more powerful than you think – like a massive iceberg that is mostly hidden beneath the surface, yet the part that is underwater is usually what sinks ships!A positive attitude brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking.
If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and over the long run make you happier and much more successful.
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It is time to get rid of all your negative thoughts and behaviors and take the steps you need to begin leading a happy and successful life.- Fact: Optimistic People Make More Money (robertjrgraham.com)
Influential optimism means you see the positive in all situations. You look for ways to move forward. You don’t focus on disappointment or negative feelings. People want to spend time with individuals who have a positive view on life. As an optimist, you see the world as a series of exciting challenges. You inspire positive feelings about everything you stand for. This mindset is contagious and helps empower people to believe in themselves and in you. In other words, as an optimist, you help others see failure or setback as temporary. Success will happen. In contrast, a pessimist sees that temporary setback as permanent failure. Optimists know that when failure arises they have something in their life they need to change. A pessimist calls it a weakness and never moves on. Optimism then is the ability to bounce back sooner rather than later or not at all.- Positive Attitude-Part 1 (bensonkiragu.wordpress.com)
If you have been exhibiting a negative attitude and expecting failure and difficulties, it is now the time to change the way you think. It is time to get rid of negative thoughts and behavior and lead a happy and successful life. Why not start today?- Optimism in services industry soars (manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
The CBI’s quarterly survey of the sector found that in May 56% of firms were more bullish about prospects than three months ago and only 2 per cent said they were less optimistic.- Positivity forever. (supremeeducators.wordpress.com)
Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening. Believe in God who is the author and finisher of your life you gonna be strong and keep on moving.
Choosing the people around us is important. We can become influenced by them, but we also can influence them. Those who are full of negativism can become transformed by our positivism.
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Remember:
- Evaluate people, places and things in the right way
- Form your attitudes through life experiences in a good way
- Show your feeing
- do not hide you way of thinking
- dare to show your acting
- Create a positive environment => be more positive = have a positive attitude
- learn about positive thinking and practice what you learn => develop habit of being positive.
- ! Negative people can pull down your mood and make you very unhappy.
- Do not have to their bad mood get to you.
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An attitude is how you evaluate people, places and things. Attitudes are formed through life experiences and show how you feel, think and act.
Depending on the environment you grew up in, the people you surround yourself with and how immersed you are in the media, you may have developed a more positive or a more negative attitude. When you are in a positive environment, you will tend to be more positive and likely have a positive attitude. When you are in a negative environment, you will tend to be more negative and likely have a negative attitude.
The good thing is, you don’t have to keep the attitude you have. If you learn about positive thinking and practice what you learn, you will develop a habit of being positive.
When you meet someone who has a negative attitude, how does it make you feel? If they are being nasty, mean…
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From the previous postings you could come to see how serious we have to take the people around us, because they will influence us in one way or the other. It would not be so much a problem if those out there would have naturally positive attitudes. But we also have to face those with negative attitudes. They might be born with no sunny signs for them or could their dispositions having destroyed or distorted by the negativity of others (parents, teachers, siblings or friends) as they grew up.
We also showed that everything is in the mind of each person him or herself. Everyone can bend the coarse of negative thought in to the line of positiveness. We all have to take up our responsibility to help those who are totally caught up in the negative spiral. We can help them by showing our positive attitude.
By coming to the knowledge that we ourselves are the only person who can create and control our attitude, we ourself can get on the way, but also show to the other that he or she also has that possibility to change her or his track. By showing the importance of the belief in the self, we can get them to reconsider their own position in their own life.
When we ourselves can get ourselves and others to believe that outside events can’t create our attitude, we can come together to build up together a good attitude. It is wrong to think that we all have to do everything on our own. We should come more to think of a group, helping each-other on the road to success.
Having come to more non-religous persons, most people have no connection any more with their ‘community‘. Most of them are not part of a parish or an active community. Lots of people live in a neighbourhood but do not know their neighbours personally. Often lots of activities in the community even happen without them noticing it. Sometimes this is also the fault of the community or the parish itself, not inviting the people which live in the neighbourhood, or restricting contact only to those who are member of the church. Lots of churches have forgotten to go out and to do preaching work or investing time in missionary work at their own place. You might find churches having collections for places far away and talking about mission work in countries far away, but their eyes are closed for their own region. There there has to be done lots of missionary work today.
It is important that a person gets that feeling of being part of a community. We need to feel part of something which is bigger than ourselves. We are not made to stay on our own. It does not mean we do have to be married or living together with somebody else. But there has to be a connection with others living around us.
The outside world will always throw challenges in its surroundings and we may not close our eyes for them plus we also do have to open eyes of others for them. Some Christians do think we may not involve ourselves in the politics of the world, but we can not close our eyes for the politics in our own surroundings. We should be aware of it and should protect the weaker ones for those who try to get power over others.
We have to create our attitude in response to how we think about the events going on in our environment. Living in a communal society we do have to decide how we are going to respond to those challenges and to our entourage. Here we do have to make our first choices, how to look at things, how to let it influence ourselves or others and to choose whether to respond negatively or positively to the things it shall come to bring to being. Everything which is said or done shall request a reaction and shall have an influence on those around it.
Being aware of your position in the community is important to the feeling of yourself but also for the reaction you will create onto others. Having much more in your hands than you might think, you should come to see that really you too can bring lots of changes, not only to your self, but also to others.
This request a strong attitude form yourself and a willingness to help others.
We shall not deny that maintaining a positive attitude in the face of all of the daily challenges in life can be daunting. We may differ with each other, but we shall have to find ways to live with each other. By respecting the thoughts of the other you too may gain respect from the other. You both can come to the conclusion that each of you might find way to live positively with each other. It does not matter if you are white or coloured, if you are very highly educated or have a poor education, each one of you can contribute to the community.
Many challenges may be offered to us and the community we are living in. But when we join hands we shall be able to do more than just on our own. Each of us can do it. It’s a personal choice to believe the best about any situation. Start to become aware of what you are thinking and saying, and check in yourself what effect it can make what you our saying.
As soon as we come to the understanding that we all works in progress in we are on a good way to come to changes which can be positive. You should work at it – gently correct yourself when you’ve gone the wrong way and praise yourself when you get it right.
We should be aware that common notion such as ‘long hours and many years’ counts also for us. but we have to be careful how such idea would dictate our life patterns. Believing on ourselves we should pursue our dreams, letting also others know that dream and prove it could be possible to succeed and on our own terms.
In case the surrounding looks boring or unappealing to you, why do you not try to change something to it. Consider more pleasurable surroundings that involve activities you may like, but also know you yourself can bring changes in your own environment. Your attitude and energy level are at their best and your attention span is very keen since you are focusing on something you like.
When you meet people who have grown to believe they can not achieve success due to a variety reasons, why do you not show them too that other side of the coin you have found. Let them and come to see yourself that in fact they put more effort into producing reasons as to why they can not succeed than others may invest into becoming successful. Our and their focus should come onto the vision of success.
Teaching yourself to have a positive attitude takes gentle but consistent work, just like training a young pets or toddlers. Do it for yourself and help others to get on the process of developing a positive world together.
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“He would always say: ‘The sick must feel that they are the authors of their own apostolate,’” recounted the pontiff. “A sick person, a disabled person can become support and light for other people who suffer, in this way transforming the environment in which he lives.”
Pope Francis urged the sick and disabled to give witness to the example of Christ in their own lives. “With this charism, you are a gift to the Church,” he said.
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When people do want to get rid of the negativeness in their life they should come to the understanding that they shall have to change their attitude and direct their choices in the good direction.
To be able to find a path to success we get to put away our memories of the bad things. We have to chose to let go bad memories and most of all the fear for what happened in the past to us and for what still could happen to us. We must be aware that we may have to walk on a hard road, the one less travelled but the one with less hurt.We perhaps have to choose to go into other directions than most people do want to go and we have to chose the better friends to walk with us. There is no reason at all to cling to the past nor to people who are not meant to stay with us.
For sure there will be haters of all sorts of thing and mostly of those who do not like us. But why keep worrying about them? Why wanting to walk around with those who so often doubt? We may doubt, but it may not catch us like a virus. When we do face the Non-Believers and the Unbelievers, we should stand strong in our own shoes, going for what we feel in our inner guts.
We better dare to stand strong in the heavy waters of the sea of this demanding world and have the strong feeling that we will and shall prove them wrong.
Positivism demands first a strong change in ourselves. First we do have to believe in ourselves before we can start constructing.
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Additional reading
- Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
- Running away from the past
- Rejoicing in the day
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Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.- Look in My Mirror (thetimesofrefreshing.wordpress.com)
Each day you look in your mirror to see how you look; oftentimes you don’t notice the beauty that I’ve imparted into your life. You see only the negative things about yourself; the wrinkles, dark circles, blemishes and imperfections. You don’t take the time to see the joy, beauty or the marvelous workmanship that I so lovingly poured into you.- Talent Is Not Enough (9/30/13) (tworiversblog.com)
Each and every one of us is given natural gifts and talents.
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When our talents and gifts are moving in the same direction as God’s will and anointing we are unstoppable. So what is His will and for what purpose is His anointing? To proclaim good news to the poor, comfort for the brokenhearted, release for the captives, freedom for the prisoners and and blessing for those who mourn.- Rejoice in the potential that lies before you! (megnocero.wordpress.com)
There has to be something or someone to hold onto and give you hope. Make the decision to find that one person or thing. And until you find it, embrace your thoughts laced with love, kindness and optimism for yourself and others. Making this one small choice could give you the strength to snap out of any gloomy and dismal hypnotic trance and find what you need to see the world in an entirely different light. You may face challenges, it is a part of every life. Remember when you are going through them, there is beauty to be found there.- On a Positive Mental Attitude and the Soundtrack of My Life (dailytwocents.com)
According to my husband, a positive mental attitude is the most important part of his productivity. In order to achieve this attitude, he said he constantly reminds himself of the good things in his life. He makes up his mind to be happy and productive each day, and that’s how he gets so much done, he said. Perhaps I could learn something from my husband. Perhaps we all could!Are you like my husband, or do you approach each day a bit more tentatively? If you are a gusto kind of person, what helps you get up and get going each day? (48)
- Attitude..!!! (spongebobz14.wordpress.com)
Attitude is little thing that makes a big difference” said Winston Churchill. When we have a difference of opinion with others and get into a conflict, it either leads to having a positive or negative effect on the relationship.Your positive attitude gives a positive result whereas the negative, gives a negative result.- A Winning Attitude (buildingleaderseveryday.wordpress.com)
Your attitude can give life, raise esteem and signal hope. Your attitude can bring destruction, loss and hopelessness.Positive attitude is so much more than feeling a certain way. Positive attitude must be enacted through kind gestures and soft words; through praises and recognitions.- It’s a Great Day! (emmanuelayeni.com)
It’s a great day because we are alive. The fact that we are living souls today is good enough reason that today is a great day. No matter your situations, no matter the circumstances surrounding you being alive means you own the day, it’s your day and because there is greatness in you, It can never be less than a great day! Step into it there is hope for you again today to become all you have ever dreamed of. It’s a bright and wonderful day!- Meditate on Positivity (inspiringentrepreneur.wordpress.com)
To win the battle of your mindset and try to remain as positive as you can use mediation. Meditation is a powerful weapon. You can focus and read affirmations, positive quotes, listen to inspirational speakers, inspirational music, follow inspirational blogs and so much more.- Does it matter where Positivism come’s from ? (thoughtsummary.wordpress.com)
Today Positivism has filled every corner of our life its there at the work or in our home, where the need and demand is growing at a very fast pace just as the technology is making our live’s vulnerable and stressful. The global life of an average person is being run over by stress , confusion, crises, tension, unfulfilled needs, desires complexities, problems, pain, suffering, and delusions that has become more or less an identity if that very person.
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