Swimming With Jellyfish – Creating a Positive Attitude Despite the Recession
Most of us only tend to live our lives at about 50% of our potential. In other words, we’re doing only half the things we could be doing. In fact, I’ll put it even more bluntly. The lives most of us are missing out on are the goals, hopes and desires that we REALLY want and need to make our lives more complete and worthwhile. And those are the ones that require confidence so we can enable ourselves to have a go at achieving something which we can later look back on with contentment and, as a result, greater confidence.
Magic Words
The use of positive affirmations to help facilitate the Law of Attraction in your life can not be understated. It is absolutely essential. But many people can be confused about positive affirmations, their purpose and how they are constructed.
No Confidence? How to Have a Happy, Confident Mind and Stop Feeling Like a Loser
Want to improve your confidence? Even the most outwardly successful person can lack confidence in themselves in particular situations. How can you learn to be a more confident person? Read these essential self-esteem and confidence-building tips.
How to Develop Positive Thinking
It is only in a calm and peaceful mind that powerful thoughts and positive ideas can take root. The attainment of inner peace is possible through the practices of emptying the mind, and replacing the feelings of fears, hate, insecurities, regrets, guilt with creative and healthy thoughts. You should focus not just upon mind but also also on speech. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking says, “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind… It is important to eliminate from conversations all negative ideas, for they tend to produce tension and annoyance inwardly” (p. 27). One must also find some time alone in quiet contemplation thinking about nothing. Picture your mind as a smooth pond and let there be no ripples. Peale quotes Abraham Lincoln, “People were just about as happy as they made their minds up to be” (p. 70) to prove that happiness is a choice. You get what you choose. Happiness is a matter of habit. It is the state you decide to be in. One should speak to one’s unconscious mind. It is a powerful entity that can transform mental habits and attitudes toward positive direction, provided we are firm and persist in our endeavor. Peale goes on to show how we can rid of our negative personal traits and inculcate positive virtues through positive thinking. The methods and strategies taught by Peale to culture positive thoughts are practical steps that can be adopted by any one to solve problems, get rid of anger and other negative emotions, and drain away all your malice, and attain the ultimate self-improvement.
Fortune Favours the Brave
Fortune favours the brave. It’s a well known proverb but what exactly does it mean? It is a translation of the Latin proverb “Fortuna audax iuvat”, meaning, in simple terms, that good luck comes to those who take chances. It’s a reassurance that we will be favoured by fortune if we carry out our plans boldly, with courage and confidence. It dates back to the second century BC, when Roman playwright Terence used it in his play ‘Phormio’.
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