How Thinking Positive Thoughts Attracts Success

You know yourself if you think positively, positive things happen around you. The secret is staying positive "sometimes difficult" But keep a Positive mindset must be beneficial to body & soul 


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Think Positive Thoughts and attract positive things. What does it take to find real success in life? What is a positive attitude?

For most people finding success is difficult. There’s one KEY that can bring success to your front door and that’s the power of positive thinking.  But it’s not all about upbeat thoughts and a rosey outlook. It’s a mixture of thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that brews up the most amazing mindset to magnetise whatever you want in life.

You’ll be amazed how thinking positive thoughts positively improves your life. Let’s try it now. I want you to think something negative. Anything negative. Hold it in your mind. Keep the negative thought in your mind for two minutes. Dwell deeply on that negative thought. That’s good. That’s really good. Now tell me, how do you feel in your body? Many times negative thoughts create stress and anxiety within our bodies. Your jaw clenches and your stomach muscle become tight. Or you could feel nauseous, get a headache or just feel absolutely miserable, sad, angry, and so on.

Now, let’s flick those thoughts as you would a light switch. Imagine the negative thought and then change it to something positive. Thinking positive thoughts. Creating a positive attitude. Hold that positive mindset for a few minutes. Thinking about all the different layers of that thought pattern that make you happy. Does it make you smile and feel lighter? Do you feel happier? A positive mindset makes you feel good.

Think about it. You feel good thinking positive thoughts. How do you think others will feel around you when you feel happy and satisfied? And if you build on that positive feeling you start to magnetise what you desire…… and in this positive mindset you have the power to create your dreams and goals… to create what you want to be successful in life.

Why You Need to be Positive

Climbing the ladder to success has a lot of pitfalls and setbacks. It’s a huge challenge to go from nothing to real success, but it can be done.  To be successful you must be very focused and determined to reach your dreams and goals. For instance, if you want to own a business and work for yourself you would need the motivation to do some inner journey work to discover what sort of business would suit your personality and values, align your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes towards your overall goal and create a positive mindset of success. And then you would be eager and ready to do some outer work to expand your knowledge of business regulations, licences, expenses and so on is needed to start-up your specific business. You need to be focused on every step along the way.

If you look at successful people in business they all work very hard at what they do. They are focused and don’t back down. If they come up to a brick wall, stumbling block or something that’s stopping them from being successful they figure a way around it by asking colleagues, taking a course, doing their own research, and so on. They don’t stop until they are running a successful business.

To create success you must be focused, but you must also have a positive mindset because this is the only way to get beyond the challenges that come up.  For example, if you make a bad business deal what good does it do to dwell on this deal for months on end?  What is a positive attitude going to do for you in this instance? You need to accept that you made a mistake and you have to move past the mistake to push your business forward. Thinking positive thoughts. If you were to think negatively and fold your business you would be making a huge mistake based upon negative emotions.

If you were to learn from your mistake and pinpoint exactly what went wrong you could learn from the mistake and turn it into a positive learning experience. No one is going to be perfect and we all make mistakes in our life, but this is how we grow. If you dwell on mistakes then you surround yourself with negative energy and you will have a difficult time pushing and struggling towards success. The power of positive thinking changes your overall energy, focus, motivation and you gain the ability to think ‘outside the box’ and seek new possibilities and opportunities.

Being Positive Will Open Doors

When you are positive and feel energetic and passionate you will find many doors of opportunity opening up for you. Suppose you were positive and full of energy at work. Your boss would see this and you might get promoted or be given a special assignment. People want to be around positive, energetic people and when you are this way it can pay off in a big way. Focus on the positive things, remain focused and motivated towards your overall goal in life and you will find doors opening up for you.

Success is Attracted to You

If you can focus all your energies in a positive light you will magnetise positive events, situations and people to you.  Surround yourself with people who support, respect, understand and appreciate you.

Thinking positive thoughts definitely attracts success to you. The way you think and act has a big influence on the success you can find in life. When you say “I will succeed“  you will, but if you focus on the “I never will” then you are going to struggle. Can you imagine thinking to yourself “Change is difficult, it’s nearly impossible” and then actually trying to generate the change you desire. NO. It doesn’t work that way. Change your thoughts so they align to what you want in life. If you want change make sure your thoughts are focused on “Change is easy for me” or something similar.  You need to put a positive spin on everything you do because being positive magnetises success right to you. That’s the power of positive thinking. And that’s how a positive mindset attracts success.

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What’s Your Motivation To Keep Moving?

This is a Guest Post by Gregg Swanson, a mental strength and peak performance expert.  

Motivation is essential to achieve any type of success weather it’s in business, health and fitness, relationships or even a simply hobby.  Without motivation nothing happens.  

Motivation is generally defined as a “force, stimulus, or influence” that moves a person or organism to act or respond. According to Webster’s Dictionary, motivation is…

“the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action;” and “the reason for the action.”

Normally when we think about motivation we think about being excited about doing something or not. Well, if you’re going to want to reach your goals on a regular basis, you’re going to have to comprehend and use the power of motivation.

Motivation relates to the internal processes that “move, impel, induce, or incite,” people to do the things they do. It is “the call to action” that stimulates us to initiate behaviors in the world around us.

“Needs, drives, and desires” are typically cited as internal motives of our behaviors. “Incentives, rewards and reinforcement” are considered motivations derived from external sources.

One of the earliest theories of motivation was proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle suggested that motivation was the result of an “appetitive” function, which always operated relative to some result or end. According to Aristotle, this “end” was provided or created by the thought processes of ongoing perception, memory or imagination.

Modern cognitive theories of motivation also mirror Aristotle’s model, proposing that motivation is primarily resulting from internal maps or “expectations” of the potential consequences of specific actions. So, expectations relating to the projected outcomes of one’s behavior can be seen as a primary source of motivation.

From this view, how people feel, and what they do, depends on the value that they attach, and the causes they attribute to, anticipated consequences. Strong “positive” expectations, for instance, can push people to put out extra effort in hope of reaching some desired outcome. Expected consequences that are perceived as “negative,” on the other hand, will lead to either avoidance or apathy.

Many people experience problems around the process of motivating themselves or others. This is often because, as Aristotle pointed out:

“Appetites run counter to one another, which happens when a principle of reason and desire are contrary and is possible only in beings with a sense of time (for while mind bids us hold back because of what is future, desire is influenced by what is just at hand: a pleasant object which is just at hand presents itself as both pleasant and good, without condition in either case, because want of foresight into what is farther away in.”

The Four Questions of Motivation

An initial question that is applicable for motivation is what can we do to be productive, efficient, effective and happy?

Basically, what can we do be able to reach our goals and feel good about it?

Our lives are filled with a never-ending variety of things to do and experience. To the greater extend we create these choices of experiences. So the question is, how can we, through our motivated behavior, create experiences that are happy, fulfilling, and productive as possible?

There are four aspects associated with motivation: the whether, what, why, and how of motivation.

1. To what degree are you motivated to act, expend effort, or other resources in pursuit of a goal? Decide whether or not you are motivated.

2. What is it you are motivated to pursue? What is your goal or desired outcome?

3. Why are you pursuing this goal?

4. How will you achieve your goal?

Understanding the “Why” and “What” of Motivation

Self-determination theory (“SDT”) is concerned with the motivation behind the choices that people make without any external influence and interference. SDT focuses on the degree to which an individual’s behavior is self-motivated and self-determined.

The SDT approach to motivation, pioneered by psychologists Ed Deci and Rich Ryan, is centrally about the “what” and “why” of motivation, supplying powerful concepts founder standing positive (and not-so-positive) motivation.

Two Types of “Positive” Motivation

Intrinsic Motivation

The concept of intrinsic motivation is the desire to do something just for the experience itself. Intrinsic motivation is everywhere – it is seen when people are doing a jigsaw puzzle, when they are making love, when they are trying to master the art of flower gardening, and when they are absorbed in a fascinating work project.

Intrinsic motivation is present in babies just learning about the world, and provides the impetus for much of people’s cognitive development thereafter; from the teen years through old age.

When we are intrinsically motivated we are fully engaged, pushing the limits of our current abilities, and often experiencing states of “flow,” or being the “zone” in which we are totally absorbed by optimal challenges (such as learning a new piano piece, mastering a new computer program, or striving for victory in a hard-fought tennis match). Intrinsic motivation is a big part of what makes life worth living!

Identified Motivation

You can’t lose what you never had — so maybe you didn’t lose your intrinsic motivation because you never had any in the first place!

Maybe nothing could ever induce you to enjoy opera, ballet, or watching foreign films. Even so, might you at least have come to see the topic’s importance, even if you still didn’t enjoy it?

For example, the ballet you originally hated, maybe you began to see the athleticism in it and you started to find how they trained and then incorporated some of their training into your routine.

Maybe you did come to realize that there were aspects of watching ballet that were useful, and found these motivating, even if you never rose to that intrinsic level where the class was inherently fun.

This subtle difference represents a whole different type of motivation.

The Dark Sides of Motivation

To keep a “balance” if there are two “positive” types of motivation there are also two “non positive” types as well.

External Motivation

External motivation is easy to understand: these are the activities you are forced to do, for which you see little value, and are not particularly fun (this should not be confused with external goals which will be disused later). Redundant paperwork, some required training's at work, attending regular meetings where nothing is ever accomplished – these are just a few of these often aggravating activities that are the products of external motivation.

Introjected Motivation

Introjected motivation is similar, only in this case it is you, yourself, who is doing the requiring, pushing, and guilt-tripping. You can probably call to mind activities that you thought were neither enjoyable nor very valuable, and yet felt you “ought” to do them, or “should” do them.

Chances are you dragged yourself off to complete them just the same as if there had been a supervisor, military sergeant, or concerned mother looking over your shoulder.

Both of these types of motivation involve some sense of unwillingness, of being controlled by forces one does not fully own and endorse. Introjected motivation is not as problematic as external motivation, because at least we have begun to internalize the motivation into our sense of self.

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