Develop Your Positive Thinking AttitudeOur mind can be our strongest ally or our greatest enemy. Developing a positive thinking attitude is crucial in maintaining momentum towards achieving your goals. Our sub-conscious mind acts as a filing system, is completely non-judgemental and accepts without question the messages it is sent from our conscious mind. These messages become deeply embedded and, in time, form the beliefs we have about ourselves, whether they are positive and empowering, or negative and limiting. Our sub-conscious mind then retrieves these thoughts for us whenever we are in a situation which requires action or response. These thoughts then control how we behave, respond or react to situations. You can control your conscious mind and therefore you can control the messages you send your sub-conscious mind.
You can deliberately develop a greater positive thinking attitude, and you can put actions in place to ensure your beliefs and thoughts empower you to reach your full potential and achieve your goals. The following tools can help change limiting thoughts into ones which empower you to take the necessary actions to achieve the goals which you are aiming for. 1. Use Positive Language In her book “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”, Susan Jeffers suggests that by changing your language you can move from Pain to Power:
2. Use a Positive Affirmation/Statement
The rules when writing an affirmation are – it must be positive and it must be written in the present, as if you have it now.
Eg. NOT “I will achieve my goal” - “I am achieving my goal”
In order for an affirmation to be effective, and fed successfully into your sub-conscious, it must be repeated – ideally 50 times in the morning and 50 times in the evening to start.
3. Eliminate the word “Try” from your vocabulary By using the word “try” you are giving yourself permission to fail.
4. Write a Statement/Goal Card
Write down your positive statement or goal on cards and place them where you will see them most often during the day eg. by your bedside, on your dressing table, on the fridge door, on your desk, by the phone, in your diary. These will help you keep your action/goal to the forefront of your mind and ensure you stay focused.
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