One of the nice things about my job, is that we get to sometimes hear presentations on various topics. I took notes on a course that talked about being a positive person, or how to fight depression. I thought I would share my notes with you. Happy reading.
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-You want to anticipate good things to come
-We have a tendency to remember the negative without out fight or flight mentality. We have to work on being positive.
-Say your positive affirmations just as you wake up in the morning, before your feet hits the floor.
-Do the three Ws. What Went Well today? Review this in the evening.
-Book: taming your gremlins by rick Carson
-Set your goals and make a plan.
-You can change your happiness by consciousness act.
-Review people who make great role models:
-Think of role models in your life.
-Be willing to make real changes in the way you think.
-If you change the way you behave can influence the way you think.
-Seek out and document things you feel gratitude for.
-Take steps to stop negativity around you. Such as avoiding people who gossip.
-Filter the negative people in your life.
-Realize that some people can’t change so don’t stress it about it.
-You can change the direction of negativity by your response.
-A garden is a good way to be positive. Your success can be reflected in your garden. If not that, choose something else.
-Exercise builds your endorphins which add to positivity
-Negatively can put a bad taste in your mouth. Caused by physiological reaction to stress.
-Don’t procrastinate.
-Stop being a perfectionist. Take a chance.
-Think about what you’re thinking and you become what you think.
-ask positive people how to make themselves happy.
-Keep a journal and note what kind of notes you use in your text. Appreciate what you’ve accomplished.
-Anderson cooper interview a dancer who will tells her that she’ll win in spite of having a leg blown off and told not able to dance again.
-Tackle things that are perceived as difficult from a new tactic.
-As a child you could not walk or talk. Now you can.
-Bird house o little seeds can be a pint of pride and joy.
-Seek out ted talks, college courses on line, YouTube.
-Masters can be gained via new tube. Such as repairing an oven.
-Use the internet and be a perpetual learner
-Have a partner/mentor to work together for seeing success.
-Loose the why me
-I need to find a way. Present your open to solve problems.
-Change your habits will change your life.
-Negative people can catch their self-talk by putting a rubber band to alert you to bad thoughts.
-Sometimes for one hard task just dig in intensely to get a hard project over with.
-When you determine how bad things are but when compared to the life lived, it has little sequence.
-Realize you can learn from the mistakes of the past.
-Encourage people that help you stretch in a positive way. See a member for different aspects of your life.
-Journaling can make a good stress reliever. or writing a lot of letters.
-Maybe have some quiet time to contemplate, read scriptures, and mediate.
-Book: unbroken
-Read biographies.
-Watch movies that build you up or show honor.
-Stop 7 minutes of wining.
-Sometime you can exit a frustrating situation. i.e.: if parked in traffic, behind a truck spewing out exhaust, get in a different lane
-Book: 7 habits of highly affective people.
-What would you like your for your death statement to say about you.
-Learn relaxation, mediation and stress relief techniques.
-Filter out people that are negative.
-If people bring up difficult situations (such as a mother who might be ill, and you’re tired of talking about it) learn to be admit that you don’t want to talk about it.
-Have pictures that review past happy events and fond relationships.
-be a competent learner = learn from friends or take a class or online course.
-confidence in learning new things builds confidence which builds real positive esteem.
-Act the act and it eventually become real.
-pencil in your mouth can build smile mussels.
-Smiling can stimulate smiling.
-Darn on good file = Share positive things to your peers and friends.
-Establish an attitude on gratitude.
-When make a small mistake- know it can teach you to impose.
-Have a brag board that can be a reminder of your successes. Darn I’m good.
-Find more positive people around you.
-Some negative people are influence by their own challenges.
-If you do something you don’t like such as exercise then do a different kind of exercise.
-Don’t be afraid to be playful. 4 yr. olds laugh 40 times a day humans sometimes none.
-Think about your mistakes ask, are they really that bad. Think of the inventors who succeeded from all the past mistakes.
-Watch kids at a park.
-Laugh and exercise. Find ways to get away from your desk. Get moving
-Sometimes having a pet with fur that you can stoke is known to build endorphins.
-Negative can hurt the heart and arties. It’s unhealthy.
-Go forth and conquer.
If you have some ideas on what is helped you to stay upbeat, please feel free to share them with the readers of this blog. Thank you.
