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Focusing on difficulties is paralyzing…how do we change this?

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“We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.” – Walter E. Cole

How often to we see a difficult situation, or a difficult conversation, or a difficult relationship, and do NOTHING because we are so focused on the challenge of this situation?   

What would happen if we truly put this thought into practice and focused on finding the opportunity in these perceived  “difficulties”? 

After all, Life offers neither problems nor challenges, only opportunities

Why do we miss opportunities?

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” – Thomas Edison

What a true statement.  How often do we look for the big break, the perfect job offer, or the perfect client, and miss the opportunity that is staring us in the face because it seems like too much work.  

Opportunities do require attention and work…and are sometimes hard.  It has been my experience however, that these “hard” opportunities provide the greatest lessons and rewards. 

After all…”The hard is what makes it great”

Is life really full of opportunities?

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The focus of this weeks thoughts for the day are going to be centered around the following principle

Life offers neither problems nor challenges, only opportunities

What would your life look and feel like if you really lived this principle?

I am looking forward to studying this principle and seeing how I can better apply it to my life.  I am also looking forward to hearing others thoughts and feelings on this subject.

Lessons I learned on positive attitude and positive action

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This week has been inspiring for me.  I have been researching the connection between having a positive attitude and taking positive action.  Here are a few things that have stuck out to me

1. Having a positive attitude is a key component in life.  Positive attitude create positive thoughts, feelings, and desires.  But positive attitude alone does not get us to our goals and dreams…we have to take action.

2. The past can either hold us back from taking positive action or motivate us to take positive action.  If we always focus on the past we will always hold ourselves back.  If we learn from the past and apply positive attitudes and positive action we will develop and grow and ultimately change our lives.

3.  Individually, positive attitude and positive action can create a life of happiness, success, and Joy.  Together –  Miracles can and do happen!!!

This clip has some great insight that combine all of these points together.  All we have to do is believe in ourselves and TAKE ACTION

How has positive attitude and positive action impacted your life? 

Why do we stare up the steps?

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“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” ~ Vaclav Havel

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.” ~ Napoleon Hill

 

Does a positive VISION assist us with positive ACTION?

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As I have been studying the relationship of positive attitude and positive action this week, I have realized that having a positive VISION is a key component.  When we have a positive attitude, with a positive vision of who we are and what we want, and then take positive action towards this vision…we set ourselves up for success. 

“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positivee vision.” – Dalai Lama

“Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life you have imagined.  The future is not just some place you are going to, but is a place you are creating, and the paths to it are not found, they are made.  Follow your passion as long as you live, and on this you will reach success and happiness. “ – anonymous

How has a positive VISION assisted you in taking ACTION? 

Positive Attitude = Positive Action?

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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.  – Jack Canfield

Maintaining a positive attitude and focus in life truly allows us to focus on the next steps we can take to get us closer to achieving our goals.

If we have a positive attitude it will allow us to focus on positive actions, which in turn will continue to move us forward.

 

How does Positive Action compliment Positive Attitude?

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The focus of this weeks thoughts are going to be on Positive Action and how this complements Positive Attitudes. 

I am a HUGE advocate of positive thinking.  The name of my blog choose your P.A.C.E (Positive Attitude Changes Everything) reflects this.  Positive thinking causes a chain reaction in positive goals, positive conversations, and positive movement.

I am realizing more and more that positive attitudes are not all that is needed to achieve the goals and desires I want to achieve. It takes ACTION as well.

This is a great quote to start of the week.

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time.  Vision with Action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this topic this week.

What I have learned by studying “believing in yourself” this week

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I have really enjoyed studying the topic of “believing in yourself” this week.  I have learned a lot and have reconfirmed some of the thoughts and feelings I have had around this topic.  Some of the main “aha” moments for me are captured below

  • Having a humble but reasonable confidence in your own purpose will allow you to have faith in my abilities.
  • Letting go of the pressures I feel to be recognized allows me to be more open and able to simply live my truth and be myself
  • I know where I want to go and I know what is true for me.  This allows me to be free to be what I want and have faith in myself
  • Knowing that I have the power and ability to handle each situation provides me with belief and faith in myself
  • Once I start believing in and having faith in myself…I start to embody and embrace these feelings.

As we close out this week I wanted to share a post I found  on www.selfawake.com . It is written by Samir Kunvaria and is a great summary of the power of believing in and having faith in yourself.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale

 Many times in life we face situations when everything is uncertain. We feel like we are lost in the dark and there is no hope to get out of it. We desperately need help from other people to take us out of dark, but we forget that we have light with us, within us. That light is nothing but belief in yourself. Belief that I can handle this and everything will be fine.

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright

Every one of us has faced a phase where we start doubting our self. We start questioning what if I can’t do this. This is nothing but negative voice inside us. We have to replace it with positive strong statements like I can do it or I deserve it. It is said that you win half the war when you start believing that you can win it.

“You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.” Robert Anthony

Let me share a story of magic of belief which I read on Wikipedia. George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. An event in Dantzig’s life became the origin of a famous story in 1939 while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley.

Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was late, Professor Jerzy Neyman wrote two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. When Dantzig arrived, he assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. According to Dantzig, the problems “seemed to be a little harder than usual”, but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue. 

Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics which were not solved by Einstein as well.

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” William James

Success is only possible if you believe that you can achieve it. Nobody will invest in you if you don’t believe in yourself. You have to remind yourself to keep trust on your opinion and judgments. Situations and world might be against you, but you have to keep faith in yourself. Losers are not those who failed, but who didn’t try.

It is common that we normally lose faith in adverse time. We can always cherish time when we conquered all the consequences. It will shift your thinking from depression to joy.

What lessons have you learned this week about believing in yourself?  

Believe in yourself – you are something unique!!!

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The topic of this week has been believing in and having faith in yourself.   I have found so many good topics, stories, and videos around this subject.  This clip is a great example of what can happen when we know who we are and believe in ourselves.  I typed up a few of the points that stuck out to me…ENJOY!!!

  • “Your brain is like a circuit switch.  Once you believe you are something…you actually embody it, you embody that feeling.”
  • “Being successful in life is all about having the proper belief system in who you are.  Truly believing that you are something unique, that you are something special in that field…you will be entirely different than if your like I hope I am good”.
  • “If you are unsure about who you are, then your dreams, your goals, they will never become a reality.  Everyone has mental doubts in life, internal conflicts, even the most successful people, that you look up to, but they don’t live there.”
  • “It’s how you handle those negative thoughts in that exact moment and overwhelm them with positive action, and that comes with this utmost confidence in yourself that you can handle the situation, trust in yourself that you are better than the moment.”

How does knowing who you are assist you in believing in yourself?