What would your life look like if you were more positive in your thoughts?
No matter how confident and successful you are, life has a way of throwing challenges at you that will push you to make decisions redefining who you are and your substance. In everyone’s life, there will be events that force a constant expression of this experience and force you to take actions that will bring growth in your life.
In the end, even after facing a challenge, I like to think that we have found a more galvanized understanding of who we are, and we hold on to this self-image with a more critical and realistic passion. Sometimes the challenges are so overwhelming that it takes quite a bit of time to find your equilibrium and look at things with a more open mind and accepting heart. Will you find positivity at the end of a challenge in life? Only you can tell that for yourself. I have always thought I would. But recently, my life has taught me many things from challenges. I have experience loss, betrayal, poor judgment and found a perspective of forgiveness and, hopefully, positive growth in all areas of my life because of it.
Being Positive, When the World is Negative
Even though I have spent a lot of time learning about the power of being positive, I know positive thoughts produce positive energy. I have, on 
occasion, slipped into being judgmental and critical of others for no reason other than because I was experiencing something negative. When you are experiencing fear of any kind and are afraid of your needs not met, this can happen.
Being positive becomes difficult when you look at life and the people in it as things that affect you, rather than seeing them as people who are just doing the best they can to survive day-to-day. All people have weaknesses, and from time to time, they are annoying and rub you the wrong way. One of the biggest challenges in life is accepting these negatives and still supporting and highlighting the positives of every individual in your life. The things that annoy us the most are the weaknesses we see in ourselves. We are maintaining a focus on love, understanding, acceptance, and kindness, which can be a challenge, and the reward in accepting others is a better view of ourselves.
It becomes challenging to do this when an atmosphere of negativity engulfs you, focusing on the negative features of things like judgment, sarcasm, and just being plain mean. That is when you have to work a bit harder to find the positives. The best way that I have found is to look for the things that are going right and not worry about what is wrong with the job, community, or each other. Especially each other.
Find Time For You
No matter how busy you think you are or what others believe you should be doing, it would help if you found time dedicated to yourself. Scheduling this can be a challenge, but vital to allowing person la growth. Rather than get all wrapped up in the daily chores, problems to be solved, and performance, find time for you. Don’t lose your focus on pure kindness and courtesy; people should show one another each day.
One of my favorite ways to maintain a more positive focus is to spend a little time each day learning something new and digesting that information productively and healthily. You are never too old to learn, and growth is a lifelong process. Learning about yourself makes you less judgmental of others and keeps the focus where it belongs, on your thoughts and ideas. Those who don’t find growth are slowly dying. Finding time to think and put your experiences into perspective will allow your life to have a much more significant flavor. Life is continually trying to teach you lessons. Your reflection is their chance to sink in and make an impact.
Focus Your Energy
All experiences are going to change your life in one way or another. People often choose to let most of what happens to them be negative and spend time trying to overcome whatever life has given them.
I think there is a better way, and that is to remove the labels of good or bad that are associated with experiences and label them all “Experiences.” Changing our perspective can be difficult when things are personal, but in reality, everything that happens is just an experience that brings something to our lives that we apply value to, good or bad. We choose to smile and take what we can or to frown and feel overwhelmed by things happening to us. We have a choice.
The choices we make in each moment will determine the path of our day, and our days discover the way of our lives. There are many great things in life we all experience each day, from pleasant weather to a good cup of coffee. We need to notice and appreciate them. Being grateful for the positives in life will always take the focus and power away from the negatives.
What if you decided to accept everything that happens to you as if you chose it?
What you spend your time and effort focusing on in your life will increase.
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller.
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson.
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” — Lyndon B. Johnson.
“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.”
