My 3 Favorite Ways to Maintain a Positive Mindset

There are a lot of good things in life, as there are a lot of so called bad things. Much of our happiness depends on what we are focused on at any one time or even most of the time. It is key to learn how to maintain a positive mindset and focus especially living with a human mind that has a tendency to focus on the negative.

Also these will help to prevent the ANTS syndrome, the Automatic Negative Thoughts which I’m sure your familiar with. When your going along and all of a sudden you hear you mind saying, “well what if that thing breaks and pokes me in the eye ?”, or “hmm I’m so alone and don’t have a loving mate I hate this”, or “God I hope I don’t lose my job today, my boss is such a jerk” or whatever your minds favorite go to negative thoughts are, and I’m sure you know what they are.

Think of your mind like a garden, if you fill it with enough flowers and plants there will be no more room for the weeds to grow or creep in.

1. Flooding your Mind with Positive Thought. Every morning I go over several sheets in my “Success Folder”. One of them is the top 20 things I’m grateful for. Another is filled with affirmations about financial success,

another relationship success, another is my top 10 goals, etc. This only take about 5 or 6 minutes but it definitely helps focus the mind in the right direction, if I do not do this my day is not the same, you may want to create a morning ritual similar to this for yourself.

2. Reading Positive Material. I try to read at least 10–20 minutes a day afterwards of something positive, inspirational or motivational to fill my mind even more with positive thoughts and ideas. Even a few pages can make a difference for your upcoming day. Anything by Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, or whoever you seem to be liking or resonating with these days. Also I try to listen to at least an hour of audio on an online course or youtube university either on the laptop or in the car of the same kind of stuff.

3. Positive Associations. Lastly the people you hang out with, your friends and family (if they are positive obviously) can really help your attitude and mindset. I also like live events like motivational seminars like Tony Robbin’s, T. Harv Eker, Christopher Howard, Marshall Sylver, Landmark Education, BNI, even Toastmasters where you meet weekly can make a difference.

Another thing I like doing is meditating on and visualizing my past favorite experiences, my favorite people, mentors, friends, the girls that I like and the good times I’ve had with them, recent vacations, the things I’m happy about in my life, flooding your mind with positive people, images, scenes, etc. Also visualizing your goals as if there are already a reality and your living into them in your mind is huge. You get the idea. When I’m down in a slump and start to feel my mind going down hill I always resort to this one, even 10–20 minutes can flip things around real quick. Hope it helps, best of luck to you on your journey and until next time.