The Importance Of Always Maintaining A Positive Attitude

As I gently encountered consciousness this morning and greeted this new day (surprisingly without the aid of my alarm clock) I can't help feeling optimistic about the future. There are a lot of naysayers and professors of doom and gloom, but I'm afraid I refuse to subscribe to that way of pessimism.

I sometimes a little mystical there is a lot to be said for being positive. I you constantly live your life in fear of things going wrong, and your constantly looking down on the negative side of all you hear, then you tend to find that is what you tend to experience most of the time.

That is not to say that if you always expect the best to happen and only think positive thoughts whilst looking on the bright side of all you encounter, that life will always be rosy. However, there is much truth the notion of the self fulfilling prophecy. A lot of the time, whatever you expect to happen often does.

Part of my daily routine encompasses trying not to harshly judge other people. We are all prone to label people on the first impressions they make of us. This is a perfectly natural human experience. Even people we think we know and come across on a daily basis have certain reasons for their behaviour. We often don't know these reasons that make people act as they do. We probably often never will.

Before you decide to place 'whoever' in a box and resign to them to a category (probably wrong) of your choice, and dismiss them of being of little worth or your attention, give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Give them a second chance.

What I attempt to do as much as I can is if I can't say something positive about a person, I don't say anything at all. That way I tend not to jump to any wrong conclusions. I must admit I am not always true to my word, bur I try. I suggest you try it to.

Our life in the times we live in at present appears to composed of jumping from one extreme to the other. There is always so much to do and so little time. Kids; email; social media; phone; commute to work; boss; awkward customers; bickering everybody; constant headache; annoying colleagues; commute home; microwave dinner again; cleaning:

As I lightly and smoothly reached consciousness this morning and greeted this new day (surprisingly without the aid of my alarm clock) I can't help feeling optimistic about the future. There are a lot of naysayers and profferers of doom and gloom, but I am adamant in refusing to subscribe to that line of pessimism.

Without wishing to come across as a little mystical, there is a lot to be said for being positive. If we constantly live our lives in fear of everything going wrong, and we’re constantly concentrating on the negative side of every situation, we will tend to find that is what we tend to experience most of the time. That is not to say that if we always expect the best to happen and only think positive thoughts whilst looking on the bright side of all the situations we encounter, that life will always be rosy. However, there is much truth the notion of the self a fulfilling prophecy. A lot of the time, whatever we expect to happen often does.

Part of my daily routine encompasses trying not to harshly judge other people. We are all prone to label people on the first impressions we make of them. This is a perfectly natural human experience. Even those people we think we know and come across as rational human beings behaving ‘normally’ on a daily basis can harbour a more challenging side. We often don't know the reasons that make people act as they do. We probably often never will.

Before we decide to place 'whoever' in a box and resign to them to a category (probably wrong) of our choice, and dismiss them as being of little worth or our attention, give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Give them a second chance. I attempt to do as much as I can to act in this way. If I can't say something positive about a person, I don't say anything at all. That way I tend not to jump to any wrong conclusions. I must admit I am not always true to my word regarding this, but I do try. I suggest you try it to.

The times we live in at present appear to be composed of jumping from one extreme to the other. There is always seems to be so much to do and so little time. Kids; email; social media; phone; commute to work; boss; awkward customers; bickering everybody; constant headache; annoying colleagues; commute home; microwave dinner again; cleaning:

After a week of this, or sometimes every night, is it any surprise we seek to anaesthetise our stressed mind and bodies with our poison of choice. Wine, beer, any alcoholic beverage, cannabis, marijuana, chocolate, binge-watching TV - we all need to wind down. Or do we?

I suspect the answer is not getting into this state in the first place. I believe if we can try and eliminate aspects of our hectic lifestyle we won't need to reach for the first thing to blot out our reality. Reality comes back again every Monday morning. My way of taking control of my life is to work towards working for myself, not somebody else.