Positive Attitude Articles & News
Are You Inviting Misery into Your Life?
Often, I've come across individuals who, while in conversation, will stumble into a rendition about 'how miserable life is.' The adult children are wrecking havoc in the home, the job's not going well, money is short, and a whole other slew of treacherous stories. During the conversation, I would interject, 'but how does this effect you personally?'
Change in the Workplace: Don't Fear It; Use It!
Every day something changes at work: your products, your customers, your delivery schedules, your company’s policies. Do these changes negatively affect your company and your sales? Why do you let them? These constant changes can cause you to lose focus and lose sales, or they can propel you into greater success. It’s YOUR CHOICE!
Courtesy In The Workplace Can You Say, Thank You?
Thank you is such a beautiful phrase. When you say, thank you, it makes a world of difference. Recent research suggests that discourtesy in the workplace is rapidly becoming an increasing dilemma for businesses and organizations. Workplace incivility is growing, including an increase in bad manners, rudeness, coarseness, vulgarity, and a lack of respect.
Thinking Your Way To Success: Materializing Your Goals Through The Power of Thought
THOUGHTS are powerful. The power of THOUGHTS cannot be underestimated. What we believe is what we create in our lives. The more we think about something, the more we magnetize it and feed it power. Nothing was ever created in this universe without a THOUGHT preceding it.
Self Confidence and the Way You Use Your Words
The way we use language can have a huge impact on how we feel about ourselves. By that, I don't mean what language we speak (English, French, Spanish, etc) but how we communicate with ourselves and with others. We all have a constant dialogue going on in our heads and this has a strong impact on our self confidence. If our internal dialogue is negative, then we tend to feel negatively about ourselves, our situations, our circumstances. Equally, if our self-talk is ...
Positive Self Talk What Should You Say?
How do you explain things to yourself? With positive self talk or negative? What we say to ourselves radically affects the quality of our lives, and our ability to do things effectively. How useful is it to always tell yourself "impossible," "more problems," "never," and "I can't?"
Combat Your Bad Days
No matter how positive a person we are overall, there are times in our lives where our feelings well up and give us the sense that our situation could be better (for some it even reaches the point where they get a feeling of hopelessness).
Improve Your Relationships Instantly
Discover how easy it is to improve your relationships. The following relationship advice will encourage people to help you willingly and cheerfully. It just takes one easy communication skill, and two magic words.
What's My Life All About?
What’s my life all about is the question so many of us ask ourselves, I’m sure you have asked yourself the same question, right?
Creating Positive Environments, Part 1: Using Art
One of our most active senses is sight. What we see can affect our outlook and attitude by how its counterpart, our brain, perceives visual information that it filters through its memory banks. You can improve the odds and therefore your attitude and outlook by creating environments that are viewed as positive. Here, in part one, the positive effects of using art will be explored.
Changing Negatives to Positives
Occasionally people will ask me how I keep a positive attitude, or remain optimistic. I used to find it funny that I would get asked such things. It was as though they assumed that somehow I'd figured a way to avoid allowing any negatives into my life at all. I can assure you I have not :-)
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
I was always somebody who felt quite sorry for myself, what I had not got compared to my friends, how much of a struggle my life seemed to be compared to others. I was caught up in a web of negativity and needed someone or something to help me to escape.
Self Opinions Can Limit Our Lives
Dr. Phil says each of us has a personal "truth" -what we believe of ourselves when no one else is looking-- and from this comes results in our lives that are in keeping with that truth.
Is ADD Getting You Down? 6 Tips to Sharpen Your Celebrating Skills
Celebrating is a skill that adults with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) are often short on. They tend to have a negative image of themselves. Their own internal gremlin keeps reminding them of their failures and unrealized dreams and "the others" in the outside world often remind them when they don't live up to expectations.
Thanks For The Rejection!
It sounds a little masochistic, but I actually appreciate being rejected. No, I don’t needlessly relish the sting of reproach, or eagerly welcome scornful criticism, per se. But, as a writer, a salesperson, and an entrepreneur, I have come to appreciate that there is a strong correlation between the frequency of rejections that I withstand and the amount of success I generate, especially in my career.
How to Begin to Overcome Shyness
The one thing that is absolutely vital to overcoming shyness is DESIRE. You must want to, badly.
Find Your Inner Strength to Tackle Any Challenge
Everyone faces challenges during their life, from suffering the death of a loved one to being laid off from a job. But the challenges themselves aren’t holding you back; rather, it’s how you react to the challenges that determine your ultimate success and happiness.
Low Self esteem
I have had many confidence issues in my life, all of which I have either dealt with or overcome. I have written about some of these issues below.
Change Your Attitude from a Whiner to a Winner
Who are the Whiners? Whiners are the people who always seem to have those hard-luck stories whether it pertains to their relationships, money, or health. You’ll notice that even if they resolve one of their frustrating issues, they will immediately have another one to take its place. Are they really having a bad life, or just a bad attitude?
Fear Feel It and Keep Moving
Many of us allow our fear to stop us in our tracks. All it takes is a less than encouraging word, a negative facial expression, or a less than positive opinion, and we give up before we even get started. We’re afraid of:
Your Frame of Mind May Determine Your Health
The mind absolutely amazes me. It will never be understood, yet it’s been said that a healthy body makes the mind work better and it’s been said that the mind can destroy the body. I’m sure you’ve heard about the power of the mind healing the body too.
Optimism, the Only Option for Success
People with negative attitudes may wonder why they never achieve the degree of success they desire. It is a fact of life that if you want to succeed, you must be optimistic. Your attitude determines your future. If you don’t think anything is going to work for you, you won’t put forth the effort needed for success. Your subconscious mind creates what you believe, so convince it that you believe in your success.
Mind Power Fact or Fiction? Prove It For Yourself In The Next 7 Minutes Truly Awesome!
Who are you? We all know that we are composed of atoms. But what are atoms made of? Physicists tell us that atoms are composed of electrons, protons and neutrons. They also tell us that these components are ‘point particles’. They also tell us that point particles have no mass and therefore occupy no space. If they occupy no space they are, by extension of logic, not affected by time – the space/time dimension – no space indicates no time. Never forget that ...
Perfect to the Penny
At some point in our careers, we may find ourselves part of an obsolete operation, such as a downsizing, business insolvency, or even a single retail store closing.
Firewords: A Dangerous Necessity in Your Life?
There are many stories of people injuring themselves, and others, with Firewords in the old wild days of entrepreneurship and it is usually passed off as the price that had to be paid in order to win.
Quick Steps To Improve Your Performance Though Positive Self Talk
Want to improve your personal performance? Positive self-talk can help. Edward W. Smith, motivational speaker, author and TV show host, who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers the following advice. What you say can and will be held against you, so make it work for you by putting a positive spin on everything you can. Your mind listens to what you say and goes along with whatever you say, accepting it as the truth and acting ...
Get the Confidence to Be Your Best
A confidence crisis is looming with a recent study showing that 3 out of 4 of us would love to be more confident but don't know how to go about it.
Anger The Truth Beneath
The other day one of my “challenging clients” and I were debating the appropriateness of anger. While maintaining my perspective, I was also enjoying listening to his commitment to anger. My client felt that his outrage at the often-shabby treatment of lower-income people moved him into action and, therefore, anger served a valiant purpose in his life. “Good argument,” I conceded, “but not good enough.” After twenty minutes of getting nowhere, we agreed to both be right and return to the ...
Define Yourself With Confidence
As a trainer of coaches I often teach my students to move beyond the skill of coaching into the skill of self-trusting. Having great mastery of a specific skill is important, but without self-mastery all we become are manipulators of open-ended questions. Coaching is much more than that.
How To Live A Life Of No Problems
For most of us our lives are a problem which have to be solved. Everyday we wake up under the burden of new challenges facing us. We seek counselors and all kinds of consultants all in the hope of “figuring out” the best way to deal with the endless choices and complications which arise daily.