Positive attitude and relationships

Positive attitude and relationships are the topic on ‘Thought for the day’ blog today. Positivism is very important in our daily relationships. It is so difficult to be around a person if he or she is always complaining, shares only negative things and sees nothing bright in the future. It naturally destroys relationship. I believe that some people had many more friends if they changed their attitude from negative to positive. If you have a negative attitude it turns to creep into all spheres of life, including relationships. The same can be said about positive attitude. If you have it, it will become an integral part of your relationships, sooner rather than later. 

Before people change their attitude towards you, you have to change your attitude towards yourself

I guess some people wonder why they are not respected, valued and so few people want to be around them. There could be many answers to this question. One, which can be applied in many cases, is that these people have very low self esteem and very poor self image. If they expect dignity from other people towards them, they have to see themselves as valuable, important and nice people. If you belittle yourself, condemn for your past, ridicule for lack of talent, do not wonder that other people will look at you in the same way. They will catch your attitude subconsciously and look at you with your own eyes, the same glasses you look at yourself. So, change the way you look at you and more people will value you and want to socialize with you. 

Stop talking yourself down

Start thinking more positively about yourself is the first step. Quitting talking negative stuff about you is another. Do not view your failures as something that you could blame and beat yourself for. View them as a way to progress towards perfection. Try saying something nice to yourself and watch how you change and people reaction towards you changes.

This was just a short post, but I hope it helped you just a little bit to see how your positive attitude can affect your relationships.

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Attitude and character

Attitude and character is the topic ‘Thought for the day’ blog today. Attitude formation is very much connected to character formation. Although these two are very much similar, they have some major differences. Both of them are interrelated with your thinking patterns. And you cannot change one without changing another. Changing attitude is not as easy as making a cup of tea, as attitudes are developed in a period of months and years. In the same manner, and even more it takes time to change a person’s character. So, let me give you a few thoughts on the topic. 

Attitude is your approach

Attitude is simply our approach towards anything. It can be directed toward object or thing, or we could have some general attitude towards a group of similar objects, subjects, notions and etc. You can also have your general attitude towards life, and that attitude could consist of many other smaller attitudes towards different things, objects and etc. in life. Character would be a total sum of all your attitudes to everything in life. 

A sum of your attitudes is your character

I would compare all those separates attitudes to bricks that make up a house – your character. Things might not change much if you took out one brick out of the building, but if you changed all of them, that would be a new one – a new YOU. So, if you want to see a complete change there has to be a complete change in your attitudes in all spheres of your life. 

Start changing your character by changing your general attitude to life

You can start doing that by changing your general attitude to life. General attitude as you may understand can be very abstract thing, but it is very important. To be more specific I can say that your general attitude towards life can be a positive or negative. You can simply expect that you will succeed, be happy, your salary will keep on rising, things get better and etc. The same is true about general negative attitude; you do not expect anything good from life, you do not think you will ever be happy and successful. When you change that you can go to producing other smaller changes that would affect all spheres of your life. 

So, if you want to see radical changes in life, start working with your general attitude. 

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Positive thinking quotes

Positive thinking quotes is the topic on “Thought for the day” blog today. It will be a very short post. I just wanted to give you a few nice quotes about positive attitude to strengthen you in your positive mentality development. I hope you will enjoy them.

1. "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." By Elbert Hubbard

2. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.” By
Willie Nelson

3. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.” by Norman Vincent Peale

4. "Positive anything is better than negative thinking."  By Elbert Hubbard

5. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. By Edward Rickenbacker

6. "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me." By Zina Garrison

7. "You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one."  By Carrie Latet

8. "The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." Author Unknown

9. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." By Zig Ziglar

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Positive thoughts versus negative thoughts

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Positive thoughts versus negative thoughts

Positive thoughts versus negative thoughts are the topic of ‘Thought for the day’ blog today. Living on this planet you cannot avoid having both types of thoughts. Naturally, one day you would have more good thoughts and another day more bad thoughts. However, living ‘naturally’ can mean that you are out of control with your thoughts, but something else, for example ‘nature’, or fate, or weather, or some physical laws decide what thoughts come and stay in your mind. Although everybody of us will have bad days where you sort of battling bad thoughts, I do believe that we can reduce these days to a minimum. 

Do not fight negative thoughts

Fighting bad thoughts is monkey’s business. You will only strengthen them by doing that. You probably know that both positive and negative thoughts have their own energy and power. A wise thing to do when those bad thoughts come is not to fight them but capture them and use the power of them to make them positive and use for positive purposes. How is that done?

Negative thoughts tend to put you on fire: get you angry, nervous, and irritated. The other thing that those thoughts do is they immediately paint a gloomy picture about this situation or that person and etc. You take away the power of those thoughts by immediately changing course of your thoughts. If  you failed at something instead of meditating on that you simply try to encourage yourself by saying that next time you will do better or by remembering how you were able to do something like that some time before. Negative thoughts fail to achieve their target – make you angry and pervert your way of thinking. And they lose power. At the same time, positive thoughts automatically gain power. 

This was just one piece of advice on the post. I am going to expand on the topic in my future post. I hope this short article was useful for you. If it provoked you to think than my target was reached.

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Foundation for positive thinking

Foundation for positive thinking is the topic on ‘Thought for the day” blog today. There have been a lot of attacks on the value and power of positive thinking recently. Some people give a number of arguments trying to prove that positive thinking is simply not working, or creating unnecessary stress, or simply misleading and deceiving people. Some of the arguments can be justified. Positive thinking does not have any power if it does not stand on solid foundation. If it does not, it is merely a wishful thinking and as such it does not have any positive influence and results in our lives. But if it does stand on strong foundation, it really has tremendous power, which can create miracles. 

Positive thinking is based on faith and not logical thinking

Most people attack positive thinking because they see it as an illogical thinking pattern. They might be true, but positive thinking has its’ roots in faith, which is not built on logical facts, but on conviction that what you believe for exists in invisible world. We must accept the fact that material world is not the only world there is. There is a spiritual world and it is based on absolutely different principles than this material world is. In this visible world we base everything on facts that are gathered by means of five senses: seeing, sensing, smelling, hearing and tasting. Whatever does not go within the scope of those five is considered to be unreliable. However, if we take into account that spiritual world exists and it cannot be comprehended and explained and proved by means of five senses, then testimony of the five senses can be questionable. However, invisible and visible worlds are connected by means of our faith. When we believe that things which are invisible can come to visible reality, we bring them to pass. It is only a question of time, not the question of ‘if’. 

Positive thinking does not break natural laws

Most people fail to see the power of positive thinking because they neglect the fact that positive thinking does not break natural laws. Let me explain what I mean. You cannot expect to stay healthy if you constantly eat junk food and maintain a positive attitude that everything will be ok. If your immunity system is very strong and you are naturally very healthy from birth you may stay healthy longer, but by eating junk food you are destroying your body, which was given to you by God to take care of and not stuff it with various kinds of junk. If you neglect that and continue claiming that nothing wrong is going to happen this is nothing else but a wishful thinking, which has nothing to do with positive thinking. 

Positive thinking has to become an inseparable part of you

The problem with us humans is that we start doing something when we get into trouble. Most people try to use principles of positive thinking when problems come. However, it never works that way. Positive thinking has to be practiced daily. It has to become your second nature. You have to associate yourself with positive thoughts. You have to cut off all channels that fill your ears, eyes and mind with negativity and open up all the channels that deliver you a positive message on a daily basis. You have to look at things from a positive perspective daily. You have to be one with your positive thoughts. Then you will know the power of positive thinking.

I hope the post helped you to see what foundation for positive thinking is. I will be dealing with the topic in my future posts as well. So, keep coming to my blog and reading my daily posts. 

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What influence positive attitude has in your job?

Influence of positive attitude in your job is the topic on the ‘Thought for the day’ blog today. Yesterday, I discussed about importance of attitude at work and which attitudes are necessary in order to be successful at work and have satisfaction from what you are doing. I intentionally did not include the aspect of positive attitude, because I wanted to take it as a separate topic. I am convinced that the only way for you to succeed at your job (as anywhere else) is to retain a positive attitude towards your work.

Positive attitude at work increases your energy and willingness to work

If you feel lack of energy and willingness to work I would recommend you checking whether you still expect to see success at work. When people lose faith in what they do, their productivity decreases and work performance gets from worse to pitiful. You know that most people don’t do certain things just because they do not believe that they can succeed in those things. However, when you start seeing that success is possible your energy and willingness to work increases. I saw it very many times. We have recently started a blog with a few friends of mine. One had inspiration just for a few weeks and then lost hope that we are going to be on the first place of search engines. So, his willingness to write articles decreased a lot. However, when he saw how our blog crawled to the third page of Google he started writing articles like crazy and telling us that he believes in what we do. I hope you can see how important your positive attitude is. 

Positive attitude increases your motivation

This point is a bit connected to the first one. However, motivation is much more important as you need it all the time. The result which you expect to achieve motivates you. But you need to believe, that you are going to achieve. You need support and positive attitude from others to stay motivated. Nothing brings down your motivation more than negative talk from those around and especially people whom you love. If they do not believe in you, the only chance for you to keep moving forward and retaining your motivation is to believe in yourself. 

Positive attitude helps you to relax at work

In the world where the pace is extremely fast people feel terrible stress on their shoulders. People are pushed by their employees to work harder, faster, even extra hours. You need to arm yourself with a positive attitude to reduce the stress and continue working productively. We should remember that we put stress upon ourselves by reacting to this or that situation in a particular way. If we experience pressure from outside it does not mean we have to get nervous and put ourselves under stress. We can smile everything off. Sounds pretty banal, but it is very true. Most people consider themselves normal and they live in a stress, those that smile things off seem weird, but they live stress free lives. You choose how you want to live.

That much about influence of positive attitude at work! If you want to read more about positive attitude I would advise you to read my two recent posts:

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