Changing your negative energy into positive thoughts will help you achieve your goals. Create positive thoughts by integrating these habits into your life.
5 Ways to Make Positive Thoughts Work For You: Changing Negative Energy
1. Catastrophizing. "If I don’t ace this presentation, I'll get fired." Your habit is to predict the absolute worst outcome; everything is a potential disaster. "Everything will be ruined if they don't show up on time." Every mole is a sign of cancer, every headache a brain tumor. Those are not positive thoughts that will help you achieve your goals.
- Make thoughts positive by letting it go. A positive thought is: If you don't ace the presentation, you'll be like everyone else – nobody always performs perfectly! Maybe you didn't get the data on time, maybe you're overtired because you have a new baby. Doesn't matter because if you don't give a perfect presentation every time you probably won't lose your job. As for "Everything will be ruined if they don't show up on time" – what's your definition of ruined? The rice isn't hot? The birthday boy isn't surprised? Ruined is car crashes and trees falling on houses, it's not people showing up late. Make positive thoughts work for you by looking at the big picture.
2. Discounting the positive. "This old thing? It has a stain I'll never get out. I bought it years ago at Value Village, it makes me look fat." Similar to using a negative filter, you shrug off the positive and focus on the negative. "She's only saying that because she has to." Those are not positive thoughts that will work for you.
- Make thoughts positive by focusing on the positive. When someone compliments you, revel in the feeling. Preen! Even if she's only saying it because she "has to" (which of course you don't know) – who cares? Enjoy feeling flattered, and shrug off that negative energy. Positive thoughts will help you achieve your goals.
3. Mind reading. "I don't care what you say, I know what you're thinking. You think I'm stupid!" "They all hate me." You think you know what others are thinking or feeling, regardless of what they say. This is negative energy that blocks positive thoughts.
- Make thoughts positive by accepting your humanity. You don’t know what others are thinking. Listen to what they say with their words and body language; do they really think you're stupid? Do they really hate you? It's doubtful. Ask what they really think – and believe their answer. Let go of negative energy and make positive thoughts work for you.
4. Predicting the future. "We'll never get to the airport on time. We'll miss our flight!" You think you know what will happen, and it's not usually good. "I know I won't get the job because I asked about the photo on the desk during the interview. She'd never hire such a nosy person!" This is negative energy that will create a self-fufilling prophecy.
- Make thoughts positive by accepting who you are. Wait and see what happens. Was it Mark Twain who said that most of the things he worried about never happened? You don't know if you'll miss the flight, you don't know if you'll get the job – so don't indulge in negative energy until you have to. Positive thoughts help you achieve your goals if you focus.
5. Exaggerating. "Sure I was hired – but now look at the seven hour commute I'll be facing every day. Great." You assign more importance to negative energy and give positive thoughts less importance. "We had a fight and now we're headed for divorce!" Your negative energy is a depressing filter. Positive energy and positive thoughts will refresh and revitalize you.
- Make thoughts positive by being rational. Do all fights lead to divorce? Not usually – in fact, arguments can be healthy ways of learning more about yourself and your partner. If you get a new job, you may have to commute – but isn't that what you wanted in the first place? Positive thoughts put life in perspective.
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