You are your thoughts. They brought you there where you are today. They brought you the surroundings and circumstances you’ve been emerged. willing or unwilling, your thoughts are the background of what life brings you. Often people tend to think about what they don’t want. This is wrong. Think about what you want. With your thoughts you set yourself for things to happen. And you need to be right, so you’ll be eager to say “I knew this would happen”. Change the way you think to a positive and constructive approach and “things” around you will sound more positive and life will flow with more joy. Bad things will still happen? for sure. To make you seize your task. Life doesn’t manifest always the way you want, it’s not a straight line. But all along the way you need to keep giving problems their sole dimension and not extrapolate them and asking “how can I turn this around?”, “is there something positive about all this?”. Below are some practices that you can add to this mindset change and boost your life.
1. Visualize what you aim to accomplish. It’s important that you imprint your vision, goals or objectives in your brain, as well you’ve imprinted your language or any other skill you had learn. Visualize yourself doing it, working for it, living it and as you already have it. Fell that joy, not as “one day I’ll reach that” but as if that day is now.
2. Affirmations. Another way of imprinting in your brain your goals. very powerful. Say it out loud and repeat a few times the affirmations you have related to what you want to become or improve (skills, habits, attitude etc).
3. Incantations. affirmations can lead to monotonous exercises where it’s value can be reduced. If you say “I am happy” in a day where you don’t feel great, it may be hard to imprint. Instead of just repeating a few times your affirmation, say it out loud with your heart and soul. Use your body language. Shout it out, again and again. example “I’ll make a great presentation”, I’ll grab the audience attention, explain the purpose and clearly state the benefits”, or “I’ll get this job and I’ll be able to prove I’m the right candidate for the role”.
4. Belief. Whatever path you want to embrace, goals or objectives you have set for yourself, as any other technique and process, you must have faith and believe in it and in yourself. You don’t have to think the road will be a straight line and you won’t change your approach. you may need to do so. To adapt, to embrace challenge with enthusiasm and not with defeat. You have to keep that burning faith and belief in the ultimate goal, benefit and pleasure of whatever you want to reach.
5. Inspired action. Things don’t happen without your sparkle. Don’t expect your dreams will manifest overnight without any effort. Also useless to try any and everything. Inspired action is needed. think on what can you do, how, when, why, implications, benefits, difficulties.
6. Small steps. Don’t put yourself under unnecessary pressure and risk by having the “big” objective in mind. Big objectives are made of small wins, small steps that altogether, one after the other will lead you to your dream. Small steps keeps you motivated and engaged. Celebrate them.
7. Gratitude. Thanks people around you. for their support, their ideas, their energy or their presence. Even if they don’t realize their role in your objectives, it’s important that you acknowledge it and express that feeling. Wife’s, partners, kids, friends or colleagues are often our main pillars to achieve goals, even if they aren’t directly involved. Thank their presence.
8. Love. Love yourself, love your life, family, friends. Love is fuel for your subconscious, for your brain, for your life and those around you.
Some good mentors/writers on this topic are James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, James Altucher just to mention a few.