The whole premise of Positive Productive Thinking is to maintain a healthy psychology. This is because the better one feels, the more easily they are able to accomplish things. So it stands to reason that if one is able to manage / control how they feel, they will be able to maintain a healthy psychology and achieve more.
IMO maintaining a healthy mindset requires 4 areas.
1. Have a Purpose: Everyone needs a purpose, to feel that their life has meaning, a reason to live. Do this by reminding yourself of your direction, drive, long-term objectives and plan of action for the day. NB It's important to move onto the next objective as soon as you've achieved the last or you will find you stagnate.
2. Acknowledge your achievements (update 090913): to update your perception of reality and remind yourself of things to be positive and grateful about.
2. Be Positive: Say some Affirmations, all this requires is for you to say something upbeat about yourself and whom you are becoming (like acknowledging your achievements)
3. Be Grateful: Say some Gratitudes = simply requires you to list all the things that you are grateful for.
Affirmations and Gratitudes
Don’t have long winded gratitudes and affirmations, they’ll become meaningless. Some days they’re going to rush out of you, some days they will be a slow trickle. This isn’t a problem, it’s about quality over quantity. Start with things that spring to mind and when these run dry, follow with a generic collection you know you want constantly ie: "happy, healthy, loved, positive, successful, guided/protected" . Don't think about your affirmations and gratitudes (you think all day long), The key is to FEEL them. The more you commit to the feelings you generate, the faster you will reap the rewards. (If stuck work from a 5 year perspective listing your major milestones up to present, the same is true for over coming negatives, ask "will this matter in 5 years?"). Spend about 5 seconds on each one, breathing in while you say them. This limits the your affirmations and gratitudes to about 30 seconds each. You want to do this first thing in the morning and last thing at night so you start and end your day right. Right being: In control with direction, drive, a plan of action, a plan for dealing with progress and with positive feelings about oneself.
You want this set of tools to be like a Swiss army knife, light and portable. Don’t make it an enormous tool box you have to lug around, because after a couple of days you’ll just leave it in the hall with the umbrella! If it takes longer than 5-10 minutes in the AM or PM, your plan is too complicated or your saying too many gratitudes and affirmations, you need to revisit them and simplify. If you want to do some particularly intense work on your affirmations and gratitude, do so when you have a large section of free time. Lunchtimes, after work or weekends are perfect. Mornings and bedtime are not!
It is no mistake that the tools you need to maintain a healthy psychology are the same tools that are required to be successful. But you must remember that it is the implementation of them daily that keeps you on track. Whatever you are feeling, is a perfect reflection of your state of mind.
IMO maintaining a healthy mindset requires 4 areas.
1. Have a Purpose: Everyone needs a purpose, to feel that their life has meaning, a reason to live. Do this by reminding yourself of your direction, drive, long-term objectives and plan of action for the day. NB It's important to move onto the next objective as soon as you've achieved the last or you will find you stagnate.
2. Acknowledge your achievements (update 090913): to update your perception of reality and remind yourself of things to be positive and grateful about.
2. Be Positive: Say some Affirmations, all this requires is for you to say something upbeat about yourself and whom you are becoming (like acknowledging your achievements)
3. Be Grateful: Say some Gratitudes = simply requires you to list all the things that you are grateful for.
Affirmations and Gratitudes
Don’t have long winded gratitudes and affirmations, they’ll become meaningless. Some days they’re going to rush out of you, some days they will be a slow trickle. This isn’t a problem, it’s about quality over quantity. Start with things that spring to mind and when these run dry, follow with a generic collection you know you want constantly ie: "happy, healthy, loved, positive, successful, guided/protected" . Don't think about your affirmations and gratitudes (you think all day long), The key is to FEEL them. The more you commit to the feelings you generate, the faster you will reap the rewards. (If stuck work from a 5 year perspective listing your major milestones up to present, the same is true for over coming negatives, ask "will this matter in 5 years?"). Spend about 5 seconds on each one, breathing in while you say them. This limits the your affirmations and gratitudes to about 30 seconds each. You want to do this first thing in the morning and last thing at night so you start and end your day right. Right being: In control with direction, drive, a plan of action, a plan for dealing with progress and with positive feelings about oneself.
You want this set of tools to be like a Swiss army knife, light and portable. Don’t make it an enormous tool box you have to lug around, because after a couple of days you’ll just leave it in the hall with the umbrella! If it takes longer than 5-10 minutes in the AM or PM, your plan is too complicated or your saying too many gratitudes and affirmations, you need to revisit them and simplify. If you want to do some particularly intense work on your affirmations and gratitude, do so when you have a large section of free time. Lunchtimes, after work or weekends are perfect. Mornings and bedtime are not!
It is no mistake that the tools you need to maintain a healthy psychology are the same tools that are required to be successful. But you must remember that it is the implementation of them daily that keeps you on track. Whatever you are feeling, is a perfect reflection of your state of mind.
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