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go forward in life, and support you in yours. Try to meet with these people frequently so that their positive attitude will become part of you. Read and listen to positive information A great way to create a positive mindset is by filling it with positive information. Too many times, we get our information from the wrong places. When we are focused on the negative news of the world, this can bleed into our subconscious. We need to learn to be careful on what we let into our mind. To get out of the negative rut, we need to get into the habit of picking up an inspirational book, finding a positive article on the web or just listening to a positive inspirational CD. Put a positive CD in your car, home stereo or in at your office. Listen to it for the length of the car ride or 30 minutes in your home or office. Try to implement that one new positive idea that you learned into what you are doing on that particular day.
More steps to being absolutely positive
In the last blog we discussed the huge impact that negative news can have on us and discussed some steps to being absolutely positive. We share some more insights on this theme below: Focus on the here-and-now Too many of us spend our time mulling over our past. We think about something that happened to us or we think about something that someone told us that upset us and we play it repeatedly like an old recording. We need to break this habit and ‘be’ right where we are in the moment, here and now. Be mindful and really look at your environment, feel the ground under your feet or the chair under you, notice any smells, any taste and what can you ‘really’ hear? Ground yourself in the present because you can’t really ‘be’ anywhere else. What you do in the moment will create your future! Learn to meditate This is nowhere near as odd or scary as you might imagine! Meditation is easy to learn and with some practice, the beneficial effects are astounding and undeniable. If you are curious, please talk to a practitioner or me before you judge meditation. There are many misconceptions around what you are trying to achieve, and how to go about it. Be grateful – count your blessings It is easy for us to focus on what we haven’t reached, and become negative or overly critical. Take some time everyday to be grateful and thankful for what you have in your life right now. Find these great things and recognise them. The very thought of what you are grateful for will