It’s all cultivating you into a better version of yourself. Sometimes our perspective will kill any optimism that may be waiting to be watered. You really have to force the positive things in your life where your life may be void of them. It is hard being positive when it feels like life is constantly finding ways to kick you down. It’s hard to think of the better person you will be from a dark situation that you are currently in. Sometimes, It’s very difficult for you to see past your current situation but believe there is victory, happiness, strength on the other side. Life is too short to not live in positivity because positivity is where the overflow lives. I repeat “Positivity is where the overflow lives”. Chose to live in the overflow. Chose to live in abundance. Use these 5 vital tips to help you reclaim joy and positivity in your life again.
1. Protect Your Peace!
I literally need this on a t-shirt. If I could scream this from the mountain tops I would. Don’t give energy to people or things that can jeopardize the most valuable intangible thing in the world, which is our peace. Peace is a necessity we all deserve. Now let’s define “energy”. Energy is a host of things. It is continuing to engage in interactions from people who, for a lack of a better word, suck the life out of you.
It’s continuing to allow someone to make you feel angry, frustrated, or invaluable. It can even be allowing yelling in your home. Energy is anything that alters your mindset in a negative way. You have to learn where to draw the line. Life is not meant to be spent around people or things that take your energy. Life does that already so we don’t need any help in that department. Don’t allow someone else’s burdens to become yours. Protect your peace!
2. Reprogram your mind to think positive!
The theory that new habits can be built in 21 days is true but only for very simple tasks. If you have been a pessimistic person for most of your adult life. 21 days is not a realistic timeframe to reprogram your thought process. We have had these negative thoughts/friends in our head for years. It’s hard to give them an eviction notice and not allow that familiar face to revisit you again. You need to constantly be aware of your thoughts and retrain your brain to think positively. Plant positive seeds in your daily thoughts and they will blossom into positive longstanding trees. Find positive affirmations to help cultivate the person you want to be. Positive Affirmations can really redefine your life and help eliminate the limiting beliefs you currently have.
Here is a list to get you going 🙂 If you have any positive affirmation that you use comment them down below and let us know.
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- I love and respect myself.
- I am exactly where I am supposed to be on my journey.
- I will think positive so positive things can happen.
- I deserve to be happy and loved.
- I am a person of value and I will surround myself with other supportive and loving people of value.
- I will sow positive seeds to help others find happiness.
- I am at peace with my body and hair.
- I am doing MY best and it is enough.
- I will continue to grow and learn so that I may be the best version of myself.
- Negativity is a choice that I will not choose.
- I have something to offer the world that no one else can.
- Being kind to myself is not an option but a requirement.
3. Surround yourself with positive people
Surround yourself with people who have a positive outlook on life and can help you redirect your thoughts. Surround yourself with those who can help put things in perspective for you. Thinking negatively is exhausting because it never just stops there. Mix negative thoughts with a couple of tablespoons of anxiety and you have a recipe for disaster. Be aware so you can make the necessary changes. Gravitate towards the people who think the way you would like to. People who optimism inspires you.
4. Acknowledge your feelings
This is not to tell you to never feel sad or angry and to remove those feelings altogether. You need to allow yourself that moment to feel whatever it is that you are feeling. Acknowledge that you are angry but don’t stay there. Allow yourself to feel disappointment but don’t stay there. Do not allow your thoughts to invite you into a pity party. What are you doing to do to get the results you want next time?
Remember life is hard. We spend so much time making it look great or only displaying the positive things. It is easy to feel like you are the only one who feels the way you do. We live in an age of fake and phony. No one wants to show their vulnerability, myself included. Remember to allow your blessings to blossom with positivity. Its okay to feel not happy but don’t punish yourself by staying there.
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5. Use a Journal
I am a very big advocate of writing things down. Sometimes, you need a place to put your thoughts. Particularly, if you are an overthinker like myself. You need a place to evict those negative thoughts and to reaffirm positive ones. Writing things down allows you to analyze and overwrite the things that you tell yourself. It allows you to track your progress. I didn’t realize the importance of writing things down until I got into planners, notebooks, and journals in my later twenties. Below is a journal to get you started through Amazon. Who doesn’t love Amazon?
So…let’s recap. To live a life where positive people and things find you will require work. It won’t happen on its own. You need to constantly take time to work on and put out what you want for your life. Misery finds misery. Lets review on what we need to write down in our journals and start to work on.
- Protect your Peace(at all costs)
- Reprogram your mind to think positive-Use some of the suggestions for positive affirmations listed above and say them daily
- Surround yourself with positive people
- Acknowledge your feelings
- Journaling is therapeutic. Give it a try 🙂