Be Your Own Motivator

By Sienna Nalin


Positive thinking is an important factor in your life. By thinking positive you are putting yourself in the position to better your health. Negative thinking can harm you because of the effect of the actions that you may make while thinking negative. Having a negative attitude overall will just slowly but surely impact your health, so here are some steps on how to think positive to achieve joy and happiness. (Image by Wavy1 via Flickr)

You are the control of your life so take it by the reigns and do things differently to change your mood and have a better spirit. No one else can dictate your state of mind but you so start thinking differently and doing things differently and stuff should start getting better in your life.

1. Start telling yourself things can change. While telling yourself that you also have to start that change and better whatever problem or mishap you may be having an issue with.

2. Do not just narrow down on one thing and think that is the end of the world. Realize that there are so many things out there and that you can conquer whatever you put your mind to. Do not think small. This will make you get motivated.

3. Set goals. Just the act of setting goals will help you overcome the feeling that you have no control over your future. The energy and thought process required to set goals will get your mind thinking in a whole new way.

4. Success in life is vital, so do small thing to achieve this. These small things will get you thinking positive and feeling better. You will be able to eventually move up to bigger and better things.

5. Consider a different viewpoint. Dr. Seligman's research on learned helplessness inspired him to look at optimists and pessimists and examine how both types of people explain good and bad events. In his book, Authentic Happiness, he writes that, "Optimistic people tend to interpret troubles as transient, controllable, and specific to one situation. Pessimistic people, in contrast, believe that their troubles last forever, undermine everything they do and are uncontrollable." In short, if we can change the way we explain the events that occur in our lives, we will be less likely to suffer from learned helplessness.

How you act dictates the course of your life. So do the smallest things so that you can witness that and the power that you have over what happens.

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Taking these guidelines into account when moving forward in you daily life, things should start getting better and you should start feeling better.




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