Let's face it...there are a lot of things on your mind, aren't there?
Thoughts about work.
Thoughts about your relationship with your family.
Thoughts about your bank account balance.
Thoughts about your credit cards.
Thoughts about that thing you saw in the store that you'd love to have.
Thoughts about how you can make more of your life without telling other people that you are interested in 'self-improvement' because of how they would react.
In fact...the thoughts you are having right now are probably taking up too much of your time, and, instead of motivating you to greater things are probably just stressing you out, right?
Life has a funny habit of cluttering up if you let it, and usually, it's full of ALL the wrong stuff!
So let's get one thing straight.
Stop thinking about what you shouldn't be thinking about!
(Yeh right, Gary - just like you saying 'Stop thinking of an elephant' - you just CAN'T!)
Well, of course, you're right, but it shouldn't stop you.
I firmly believe that if you DID stick your head in the sand and ignored your 'problems' - I very much doubt that it would help you much.
BUT...that's no reason for you to accept second best in your life.
We ALL have problems, issues, challenges, bad times, down times, arguments, stress, and even a little bit of anger.
Welcome to the life of a normal human being!
The key to YOUR success is how you handle these issues.
You can either treat them as huge problems that constantly cloud your life - or - you can look at them as temporary 'blips' or challenges that, once overcome, will benefit with new wisdom for years to come.
Personally, I'm trying to fill my mind as much as I can with positive stuff - positive thinking, viewpoints, speech, action, and experiences.
Even my walk back from taking to school every day is filled with positive thoughts as I work my way through more of the 100 hours of self-improvement audios I've already paid for. (I'm on hour 36, just in case you were interested - though I'm constantly adding to those 100 hours!).
And yet - my preferred method of learning is via reading (which I do every day - without fail.)
I find it a challenge to listen to audios, and I can't listen whilst I work at my PC. So - when I walk back from school, my Ipod is on.
I even surprised Lesley last week when I volunteered to do the weekly grocery shop - because it allows me at least an hour of learning as I walk!
Before I bought all of those audios - I had hours of wasted time that I was left alone with my own thoughts (even though most of them tend to be positive).
Yet - in 4 months or so - I have managed to listen to a day and a half of positive, thought-provoking, and challenging material. Time, in effect, that I have found from 'nowhere'.
Now, of course, my methods may not work for you. We're both different, you and I, that's for sure!
But...YOU need to find some way, somehow, to get some positive input into your head - even if you don't go away and apply it! (Yes, I know - I'm asking you to break one of my cardinal rules!)
The benefit to this is that your brain will automatically attract more of what you're thinking about. Just as it did when you began to see more of the same make and model car as yours when you purchased a new one.
Or when you suddenly noticed pregnant women everywhere when your baby was due.
This stuff, flat out, WORKS.
And...it doesn't HAVE to be complicated - no matter what the 'gurus' may tell you.
So...find something positive to get into your head - and just use it to get in the way of those other, not-so-positive, thoughts.
If you're putting good stuff in then that means that you will, if only for short periods at a time, push the negative stuff away.
And...in effect, you will begin progressing at TWICE the speed because, instead of being held back by negative thinking, you will be pushing forward thanks to your new positive outlook on life.
Try it for a few weeks and see.
Once you get into a habit of absorbing positive stuff everyday - then you'll find that you'll want to carry on.
Your time is NOW.
It's time to join me as a POSITIVE JUNKIE!
Posted by vurnumg
