Your physical diet has a large impact on your
health and energy levels. If you eat fresh, healthy, high-quality foods of all
kinds and avoid the foods that are bad for you, you will have more energy, be
generally resistant to most diseases, sleep better, and feel healthier and
happier.
In the same way, your mental diet largely
determines your character and your personality and almost everything that
happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive ideas,
information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a
more positive and effective personality. You become more influential and
persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence
and self-esteem.
Those who work with computers use the expression “GOGO,”
or “garbage in, garbage out.” But the reverse is also true, “Good in, good
out.”
When you make a clear, unequivocal decision that you are
going to take complete control over your mind, eliminate the negative emotions
and thoughts that may have held you back in the past, and become a completely
positive person, you can actually bring about your own personal transformation.
Be the Best You Can Be
Mental fitness is like physical fitness. You develop high
levels of self-esteem and a positive mental attitude with training and
practice. Here are the seven keys to becoming a completely positive person:
1. Positive self-talk: Speak to yourself positively; control your inner dialog. Use affirmations
phrased in the positive, present, and personal tense: “I like myself!” “I can
do it!” “I feel terrific!” “ I am responsible!”
We believe that fully 95 percent of your emotions are
determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The
sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in
a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that
will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety.
As we said before, your mind is like a garden. If you do
not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any
encouragement at all.
2. Positive visualization: Perhaps the most
powerful ability that you have is the ability to visualize and see your goals
as already accomplished.
Create a clear, exciting picture of your goal and your
ideal life, and replay this picture in your mind over and over. All improvement
in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. As you “see”
yourself on the inside, you will “be” on the outside.
3. Positive people: Your choice of the people with whom you live, work, and associate will have
more of an impact on your emotions and your success that any other factor.
Decide today to associate with winners, with positive people, with people who
are happy and optimistic and who are going somewhere with their lives.
Avoid negative people at all costs. Negative people are
the primary source of most of life’s unhappiness. Resolve that from today
onward, you are not going to have stressful or negative people in your life.
4. Positive mental food: Just as your body is healthy to the degree to which you eat healthy,
nutritious foods, your mind is healthy to the degree to which you feed it with
“mental protein” rather than “mental candy.”
Read books, magazines, and articles that are educational,
inspirational, or motivational. Feed your mind with information and ideas that
are uplifting and that make you feel happy and more confident about yourself
and your world.
Listen to positive, constructive CDs and audio programs
in your car and on your MP3 player or iPod. Feed your mind continually with
positive messages that help you think and act better and make you more capable
and competent in your field.
Watch positive and educational DVDs, educational
television programs, online courses, and other uplifting material that
increases your knowledge and makes you feel good about yourself and your life.
5. Positive training and development: Almost everyone in our society starts off with limited resources,
sometimes with no money at all. Virtually all fortunes begin with the sale of
personal services of some kind. All the people who are at the top today were
once at the bottom, and sometimes they fell to the bottom several times.
The miracle of lifelong learning and personal improvement
is what takes you from rags to riches, from poverty to affluence, and from
underachievement to success and financial independence. As Jim Rohn sald,
”Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a
fortune.”
When you dedicate yourself to learning and growing and
becoming better and more effective in your thoughts and actions, you take
complete control of your life and dramatically increase the speed at which you
move upward to greater heights.
6. Positive health habits: Take excellent care of your physical health and wellness.
Resolve today that you are going to live to be eighty, ninety, or one hundred
years old and still be dancing in the evenings.
Eat healthy foods, natural and nutritious, and eat them
sparingly and in proper balance. A nutritional diet will have an immediate,
positive effect on your thoughts and feelings.
Resolve to get regular exercise, at least two hundred
minutes of motion per week, walking , running, swimming, bicycling, or working
out on equipment in the gym. When you exercise on a regular basis, you feel
happier and healthier and experience lower levels of stress and fatigue than a
person who sits on the couch and watches television all evening.
Especially, get ample rest and relaxation. You need to
recharge your batteries on a regular basis, especially when you are going
through periods of stress or difficulty. Vince Lombardi once said, “Fatigue
makes cowards of us all.”
Some of the factors that predispose us to negative
emotions of all kinds are poor health habits, sleep deprivation, lack of
exercise, and nonstop work. Seek balance in your life.
7. Positive expectations: Practicing the
Law of Attraction is one of the most powerful techniques you can use to become
a positive person and to ensure positive outcomes and better results in your
life.
Your expectations become your own self-fulfilling prophesies.
Whatever you expect, with confidence, seems to come into your life.
Since you can control your expectations, you should
always expect the best. Expect to be successful. Expect to be popular when you
meet new people. Expect to achieve great goals and create a wonderful life for
yourself. When you constantly expect good things to happen, you will seldom be
disappointed.
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