Positive Thinking…
Staying Positive in Negative Situations
- Five Valuable Tips
Are you able to stay calm,
happy and maintain your positive
Attitude during difficult
times?
It's pretty easy to be happy when everything is going right.
Unfortunately, we often are
forced to be around people who
Bring us down, or find
ourselves in situations that are less
Than ideal.
Below are five situations where we can choose to be positive:
#1: Treat Failures and Painful
Experiences as Valuable Lessons
It is acceptable to wince and cry out when we experience pain.
But we have to be careful
not to let that pain transform it into
Fear and paralyze us.
Without pain or failure,
there is so much we would not learn and
Experience.
Treat each failure and
painful experience as a lesson you have
Learned.
#2: Avoid Negative People
It is so easy to pick up the "vibes" of negative energy when you
Are surrounded by it.
If possible, try to avoid
people whose negative energy brings you
Down.
Sometimes people say cruel things
about others to make themselves
Feel better… ignore them and
recognize how low their self esteem
Must be.
Constant complainers and
whiners are annoying, if nothing else.
Don't get caught up in their
negativity.
Stop the conversation when it
starts or put a positive twist on it.
Many times the constant complainer
will move on to someone else
Who will listen to them go
on endlessly.
Disassociate with people
like this as much as possible.
#3: Decide To Be Different
Some people say we are the product of genetics, others say it is
Our upbringing and
environment.
If you have a relative with
a bad attitude and negative view of life,
Decide that you can be
different, no matter what roll genetics or
Environment play.
You do not have to fail at
being optimistic simply because your
Relatives are pessimistic.
Rather than repeating their
bad attitudes, you can decide to be
Different.
#4: Accept Situations You Cannot Control
Our environment is inclined to change a great deal, and change
Can be challenging.
It can test our flexibility,
our ability to adapt, and can alter the way
We feel.
Change is a constant that we
can rely on to be with us throughout
Our lives.
There will be many times
when we are in situations and environments
We cannot control.
Once we recognize and accept
that a situation or an environment is
One that we cannot control,
we are often more able to tolerate it,
And then change what we CAN
about it… our attitude.
#5: Focus on the Positive
There is constant pain and misery in the world.
It is available on
television pretty much 24/7.
Pay attention to how much
negative news you are absorbing every day.
If you wrap yourself up with
all of the negativity and destruction going
On around the world, it will
most definitely bring you down.
There are some people who seem like they were born positive thinkers.
Having a positive attitude,
however, is a choice.
It is an ongoing choice,
since every day, at every moment, we have the
Choice of how we react to
situations and people in our lives.
It is often difficult to
remain positive when situations or people are
Negative and pulling us
down, unless we focus on staying positive.
We always have the ability
to change three things… our attitude,
Our way of thinking, and our
behavior.
W. Clement Stone said it poignantly when he wrote,
"There is little difference in people,
But that little difference makes a big difference.
The little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether
It is positive or negative."
Choose to make that little difference that makes such a big difference!
- Elle Jay
