useful thinking L 1. Typical motivation speakers tell us to be positive. Our parents told us to try and be positive. Our teachers told us to be positive. Well, here we go. Idea number one. Positive thinking doesnât really work. I don't teach positive thinking. I teach this word⌠useful. Because with everything that is happening, if you have been in a rut the last six days, six weeks, or six months it's not positive thinking thatâs going to get you out of it. Itâs useful thinking. If you are feeling like you are at ground zero in your life, the question is not how can you be positive, but rather what is the most useful thing for you to do to get from zero to two? What is the most useful action for you to take in your life to get from two to five? What about to get from five to eight? To progress, the question is also what is the most useful thing for you to believe about your reality. This thinking leads you to discover what is really important and helps get you through this situation.
10 Peninsula Kids â Winter 2020
ife is complicated. In fact, itâs more complicated than ever with everything that society is going through with COVID-19, to the lack of uncertainty of what life will look like coming out the other side. It is now more important than ever to think usefully.
Here are five tips to help you do exactly that.
2. Some people would rather
subscribe to tough times. These are tough times. These are unprecedented challenging times. Some people love to be unhappy and want to stay that way. If this is you, I do have some good news for you. You will have a lot of friends. You will probably have minimal personal success from here, but on the plus side you will have lots of people to discuss the seriousness of these tough times. Misery does in fact love company.
3. Let me ask you, do you spend most of your time thinking about all the things that are wrong or all the things that you have going for you? Do you think about all the things you donât have, or do you think about all the things you have? Actually, forget all the things you have. Some people right now may not feel that they have that much. Thatâs actually not what is really important. Instead, do you think about all the things you donât have or do you think about all the opportunities that could be coming? Thatâs what really matters. It opens your mind to possibility.