How to change the thinking and make their lives better
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Often the barriers that prevent us to reach the goal or get better, there's only in our head. Consciousness determines how we povedom themselves in difficult situations, to cope with the fear of whether, will succeed or fail. Therefore, it needs to be changed.
How to think positively
negative thinking It prevents us to go to the goal. Every opportunity is seen as a threat, as the forerunner of failure. Past failures haunt, focus on them does not allow to move forward. Everything was bad, and it will be bad.
Positive thinking works in reverse. Anything that gets in the way to the goal, it is another opportunity to reach it. If negative thinking man's failure - a barrier that can not be overcome, for positive thinking is an experience from which we can and should benefit.
A simple but illustrative example. Hole on your favorite jeans for a single - the reason send denim in the trash. For others - the opportunity to try yourself as a designer and turn old pants fashion model with abrasions.
So, first you need to think positively.
1. Learn how to conduct an internal dialogue
Say to yourself: "I can do better," or "Next time I'll do better," or something like. According to a recent studyBrief Online Training Enhances Competitive Performance: Findings of the BBC Lab UK Psychological Skills Intervention StudyIt is an effective way to increase productivity and begin to make greater efforts to solve the problem.
The main thing - to believe in what you say. It's not magic, but hard work on himself.
2. Turn negative thoughts into neutral
Do not torture yourself in trying to do good for the poor second. Go to it gradually.
3. Understand that your negative thoughts just a thought
Often our feelings are groundless. Think about it, and whether or not your real reason.
How to stop being afraid of failure
How many cool projects at the idea stage died because of someone's fear to suffer failure in the implementation? If every inventor afraid to make mistakes and threw venture is unlikely to you now read this article with your smartphone screen or laptop, went to work by car and enjoyed other benefits civilization.
1. Remember, failure means that you do not stand on the spot
Error does not make the one who does nothing. If you fail, it is a sure sign of movement towards the goal.
2. Think of failure as a learning experience, which helps to get better
Most likely, you will not repeat the mistake. You will find your weaknesses and next time do differently. And if again will not work? So, again, you will gain experience. And so until then, until you reach that what goes.
Every failure - this is a valuable lesson.
Ask yourself these questions:
- What I learned from this situation?
- What benefit do I derive from it?
- What are the positive aspects of it have?
You will see that things can be helpful.
3. Do not identify with failure
I do not think that you are a loser, because I make mistakes or you have something does not work. You would be it, if not removed from this lesson and stopped out of fear that the situation will repeat itself.
4. Prepare yourself for the challenges and decide how you will deal with them
scientists have found outPositive fantasies about idealized futures sap energyThat mere positive attitudes are not enough to cope with the negative.
The subjects were asked to provide the following week. The first group had to think very positive, and the second - as it sees fit. It turned out that people who saw a bright future, then there were less energetic and made smaller than the rest.
The balance between positive thoughts and readiness to struggle with the difficulties better than one optimistic.
5. Focus not on the problem, and its solution
Thoughts on the problem of consuming energy and time that is best to spend on her decision. Do not think about failure, try to prevent it. This will not only save you from unnecessary stress, but also helps to identify weaknesses.
How to develop a mindset of growth
People with a fixed mindset are driving themselves into the framework. They believe that change and develop the talent can not be, and when faced with the difficulties experienced a sense of helplessness and hopelessness.
Holders of growth thinking believe they can get better, seek to develop and learn new things. And all that they have - just the beginning, and they can do better. They somehow just know how to look at the failure of the opportunity and see it as an experience that is useful to achieve the goal.
1. Change the attitude to failure
When you learn to accept failure as part of your path to success, this is the path will become easier and your chances will increase to reach the end.
2. Get ready for the challenges
If you've walked a straight path along the field, but now you have to climb to the top of the mountain. And it's not easy.
3. Focus on personal growth and development
Be interested in things that do not know. Do more than ever before. Raise the bar, do not stop there. Stop to take their knowledge and skills as something unchangeable, coming to you in the kit. Instead, imagine that you - a vessel filled only a third, and much more can learn to.
4. Be persistent and purpose
If you give up, it will return to the top and become a hostage of the fixed thinking again. Think about what kind of work has already been done.
How to tune in to the mindset of abundance
People with a scarce mentality think that the resources at all will not suffice. Stephen Covey in his book "Be, not seem to be"Draws an interesting analogy.
Stephen Covey, American business expertPeople with a scarce mentality convinced that in the world there is only one pie, and that if someone would take a piece, they will get less. Such an attitude leads to thinking in the spirit of "win / lose": if you win, I lose, but I can not let that happen.
People with abundant mindset believe that a lot of cakes and no losers: everyone wins and gets his piece (and sometimes more than one).
1. Think about what you have
Concentrate on this. Tangible or intangible thing - it does not matter. You need to learn to think abundantly, and be thankful for what you have.
2. Share
Knowledge, for example. Or join in the charity event. If you share something, then you have it in abundance.
How pro-active thinking
Those who think reactively depend on external factors. They do not play an active role in life, and just go with the flow.
People with proactive thinking not blame the situation or others, if something went wrong, and take responsibility for their lives. They know that they can change, and that - no, and focus on the first.
1. Get your act
Odakyu from the passenger seat behind the wheel and start to manage their lives. Instead, the phrase "the weather is too bad to go out for a run," say "rain on the street, but the house - dry. So I can do other exercises».
The idea is to stop being a hostage situations and act regardless of what is happening around.
2. Get rid of the reactive mind phrases
Forget:
- I can not, because ...
- If I could, I would have done.
- I had to…
- So there were circumstances.
Also try:
- I'll find an alternative.
- I can do it.
- This is my decision.
- I did want it.
3. Take responsibility for your life
Do not waste your time on trifles and do not get angry when things go according to plan. Time is not the bus come? Get out before, take it with you bookTo save time, turn to the right and save up for a car, but do not become a victim of circumstances. Let them work for you.
No one promised it would be easy and fast. But who, if not you, will help you become better and succeed? \
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