think positive

This is another key goal for 2009. I want to make life as easy as possible for myself and thinking positive would definitely make life much easier! I’m already starting to worry about things, ‘what if 2009 is crap’, ‘what if things go wrong’ etc. It’s very stressful to worry about things that might go wrong and I really don’t want to go down that route again. I want to be an optimist.

I’m going to use affirmations and visualisations to create a more positive outlook and also do my best to replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts. I’ll also continue reading positive books. I think I’ll read the seven spiritual laws of success next.

in the last week, I’ve not paid much attention to my thoughts, so I don’t actually know if I still have more negative thoughts than positive. I’m going to observe my thoughts better next week.
I’m totally bored with my affirmations. I guess the ones I was doing for some time, which were very powerful and helped a lot (I could feel them working every time I did them), have taken me as far as they can and I need to find new ones. I’ve tried a few new ones, but none of them really feel right. However, I do spend some time each day saying positive things to myself, just whatever comes to my mind – I don’t know whether this is right or wrong, whether it makes much difference, but it’s nice. I also really enjoy doing visualisations these days. Or it’s more like day dreaming, but isn’t that the same thing? Definitely gets me excited and boosts my confidence a little every day.
At the moment I lack some structure and tend to do all these exercises when (or if) I remember. So next week, I’ll aim to set some sort of positive thinking routine for myself. Would be nice to do something first thing in the morning, then some during the day and again in the evening.

I am much more positive today than I was five weeks ago. Of course I still have negative moments, even days, but overall I’m making a big effort to be positive most of the time.
Doing affirmations every day has helped a lot. At the moment I’m a bit bored of my affirmations, so I should probably try to find new ones or even take a little break from them. I also find myself talking positively and saying little affirmations to myself throughout the day. I quite often automatically replace negative thoughts with something positive, which is nice. It’s actually quite a relief to stop negative thoughts and think happy thoughts instead.
I’ve also been trying to do some visualisations, which always make me feel happy. It’s more daydreaming, really, but it’s still nice and makes me feel more positive about my future.

So, pretty good so far, but I still feel I have a lot of negative thoughts in me and in some situations I find it difficult to be positive at all, so I still have a lot of work to do.

if this should be ‘be positive’ or something else? hmmm… i want to not just think positive, but try to only say and do positive things and eliminate all negative things from my life as much as possible. i suppose it all starts with thoughts? but also, i want to only watch positive programmes (this i pretty much do already, i mostly only watch tv shows that cheer me up, mostly fraser. i can watch fraser all day long… ), read positive things and listen to positive music. i suppose all the external stuff is to help me think positive and positive thinking will lead to positive words and actions, so ‘think positive’ is probably right.
one of the first things i’m going to do is edit my running playlist and delete all negative songs from it, some of them are my favourite running songs, like rihanna’s breaking dishes and catonia’s roadrage but they have to go. i don’t think i’ll be left with many songs on my playlist after this, so will have to find some new happy music.