Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life
Although words them selves have no power they do have a great influence over our reactions to them. Words create thoughts and the saying, 'change thoughts change life', takes on a new meaning. Words or the thoughts they create have been used to drive people to give up their lives in the name of their country, to commit murder but on a lesser scale as far as most people are concerned, they have formed thoughts that create the character and personalities of individuals.
I do not know about you but if I look back on my childhood I was continually told, 'do not do that' or 'you cannot do that' by my parents and later by the teachers in the various schools I attended in the name of discipline, very few children are taught how to think positive thoughts. It would seem that people are more interested in correcting what children do wrong rather than commending them for what they manage to do right.
I recall that this did not do a great deal for my self confidence for every time I was and to an extent still am faced with a situation my first thought tends to be 'why I cannot do it'. It is really only when individuals are exposed to management consultancy, business leadership and team building that they have a change of attitude sometimes through leadership development programs.
I was fortunate in having a fairly strong personality even as a child, I was always one to be the captain of the soccer team, the prefect of the school culminating in my final year as head boy of the school. I suppose even then I was kicking back at authority and trying to impose my personality on my life by trying to think positive about my life. However for every one of me there are a thousand who have been adversely effected all of their lives through childhood, teenage years and into adult hood by the negative words thrown at them from every situation, they may never have the opportunity of taking part in leadership development programs.
So when they are told to change their attitude or to think positive thoughts what is their immediate reaction?
'I cannot do that!'
The mistake many people make is that they think that they have to change negative thoughts to change life, maybe you also have been told, by a management consulting team, that to make progress you have to take your negative thoughts and change them to positive thoughts?
I have some good news for you if that is the case, maybe that is also what is holding you back in your self improvement.
It is not easy to change attitude and re-programme your thoughts because they are your thoughts and they have been established by a constant drip feed over the span of your whole life.
Another theory is that when you have a negative thought – immediately change thoughts change life. Well with no disrespect to the teachers of that particular theory, I would find it very difficult to change my thought process when my negative thought is paramount and preventing me from doing something.
So what can you do?
Have you taken a holiday lately, or had to plan an event, maybe even a team building event, that, even though you had done the same or similar events before, took a great deal of your thinking? Your mind was so filled with positive thoughts that you did not even consider being negative.
When you are planning your holiday you are so busy thinking about the fabulous time you are going to have the fun and laughter, the lazy stress free days ahead that there is no room for negativity.
That's the answer to negative thoughts. Don't try to change them, replace them.
At the start of each day look at what you have to do, even if you are in a mundane job doing the same thing every day. Look at your day's activity and remember something good about it and determine to duplicate that feeling that day.
At the end of the day I want you to take out your diary, go on, blow the dust off it, even though you may not have opened it since 1st January to transfer birthdays and anniversaries, I want you to write at the end of each day something positive that has occurred. It does not have to be aleadership development program, I do not mind what it is and we all have something good that happens sometime in a day that lasts between 15 and 18 hours. Write it down.
In the future you can glance back at your diary and you will read all the good things that have happened in your life, and I guarantee that if you are feeling low at the time you will quickly feel on top of the world.
Try it. It is FREE and it works, and as you8 read your successes you will find that change thought change life is true for you.
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