Beyond Positive Thinking: The Power to Change

Everybody has at some time or other found themselves in a situation or rut in life which they find hard to get themselves out of. There could be any number of scenarios, for example: an ever increasing credit card debt, a bad smoking habit, a career that is too draining or unfulfilling, health problems. In fact you can probably insert your own situation here that you are in the midst of or remember being in.

 

If you find yourselves in one of these situations here are a few positive thinking points you may wish to bear in mind when trying to turn things around.

 

Firstly, the chances are that you helped create the situation you are in through the choices or more than likely the lack of positive choices that you did or didn’t make. The good thing about that is that it must mean that you are perfectly able to work your way out of the situation through your own choices too, which you can.

 

Secondly, once you have decided to change be aware that a decision has never been made until it has been acted on. If you decide to stop using your credit cards then chop them up, just saying you are not going to use them is not enough. Physically go ahead and take action.

 

Thirdly, it is always helpful to write down the goal of what you are actually trying to achieve. In this way you are being as clear as possible to yourself and others about what you are trying to achieve. When writing your goals make them realistic so that you can actually believe that you will achieve them. If you create an unrealistic goal the problem for most people is that they see the big void between where they are now and where they would like to be and they become fearful about not achieveing the goal. This fear then focuses their mind on the lack of what they want and not upon achieving the goal. It is no wonder then that a lot of people get what they do not want.

 

Fourthly, never compare what you have with another. Doing so can easily make you frustrated about your situation. Try to visualise yourself in the situation you want to be. For example, see yourself running around the park early in the morning with fresh air going through your lungs and not a cigarette in sight.

 

Finally, perseverance. If you want to give up OK no problem go ahead give up but remember there is very little else to do in life apart from create and live life, so wouldn’t it be better to live it the way you want? If you want to change go ahead and change however if you are not really so interested then keep reading self-help books, listening to CDs and DVDs and wondering why things never actually improve for you because seriously they won’t unless you make them. Take consistent purposeful action towards your goals and keep going. In fact Winston Churchill summed it up pretty well with:

 

“You create your own universe as you go along.”

 

So why not start creating the things you want. You have the power to change your life, nobody else does!

 

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A Few Positive Thoughts to Give You a Boost

Here is a collection of positive thoughts and quotes to have a sift through next time your feeling a bit blue or indeed any time you would like a quick positive thinking boost or need a little inspiration or see the positive thinking articles here!

It isn’t what you have,
or who you are,
or where you are,
or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
-Dale Carnegie

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” – Unknown

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 
— Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. 

“Little people talk about people. Medium size people talk about things. And big people talk about ideals and principles.” – Unknown

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” – Lord Buddha

 ”It isn’t your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it’s your disposition.”     — O. S. Marden

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”
- Epictetus

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, To everyone you can.” 
— Ancient Advice

“It a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”    —  W. Sommerset Morgan

 “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”  —  Seneca
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

 “Some men see things as they are, and ask, “why?” I dare to dream of things that never were, and ask—”Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw  

“Big shots are little shots that keep shooting.” —  Christopher Morley

 ”What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes  

Control your destiny or somebody else will.
Jack Welsh

“The pain you feel is the breaking of shell that encloses your understanding.”  — Cahil Gibran  

“Success is not measure by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed.” 
 — Booker T. Washington  

“Life is just a minute only sixty seconds in it, forced upon you, can‘t refuse it. Didn‘t seek it, didn‘t choose it, but It‘s up to you to use it. You must suffer if you lose it, give an account if you abuse it, just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.”  — Dr. Benjamin E. Mays  

“People do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”  — Oliver Wendell Holmes 

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo Da Vinci

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves— to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” — Stewart B. Johnson

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalynn Carter

“A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill 

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