#62 How to Be a POSITIVE Person in a Negative Culture

Negativity dulls our capacity for greatness, it hinders our potential. Everyone has had times where negativity gets deep into them, and then everything in their life gets dark. On the other hand, are there times where we have been truly optimistic and felt hope and joy? How do we keep that optimistic positivity in our life all the time?
Need some help to start thinking positively? How to Get Back Up and Recover When Life Knocks You Down Beware Who You Follow 28-Day Challenge Creating the Life You REALLY Want to Live

1. We have to let go of the past, we cant change it. However, we can change our future because of what we learned from it. Emerson said "Our eyes are placed on our forehead, not our hind-head." We were meant to look forward, to move on and to grow. Even when life is hard, we can still be leaders. "Being positive in a negative world isn't naïve, it's leadership."
2. We radiate most of what we are. To help others around us we have to be happy. Cynicism is easy, choosing to be happy is hard - but all the more worth it. We have work on optimism like we so a muscle. We have to exercise it daily! Challenge: When you have a negative thought, immediately replace it with a positive one. If we do this over and over again, our mind will soon start going to the positive over the negative. (For a lot of us, this might help - Challenge: Stop watching the news!)

What we put into our bodies affects what we think and what we do, we need to fill our thoughts and bodies with good food, good books, and inspiring music. Great books show that even in the darkest of circumstances you can find light:

• And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Need some help to start thinking positively? Here are some additional resources:
How to Get Back Up and Recover When Life Knocks You Down
How to Be Truly Calm, Even in Chaos
Live Your Priorities--Life is Too Short to Live Someone Else's 28-Day Challenge