I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?

Now let’s say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what’s on your mind?

The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer to number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.

Here’s another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?

You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.

Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearance, too – unless, of course, you are a great actor.

And it doesn’t end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.

The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.

Positive thoughts have a feel good effect. They are very invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.

Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.

A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.

We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely to carry a positive attitude.

The media seem hell bent on filling our minds with negative news stories. Want a positive attitude to life? Heres a little tip which I have done personally.

STOP watching, listening and reading the news for a week and see how much better you feel. It really works – trust me!

Then start to drip feed it back into your life, a day here and a day there until you can take in the news without it having a negative effect on you.

A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.

You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.

A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others around you feel the same way.

A negative attitude, on the other hand, has, of course, an opposite effect. So, carrying a negative attitude has a twofold drawback. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.

If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think happy thoughts, and you have to hear positive things as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimuli, which in turn promotes a positive attitude.

Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.

And this positive attitude you now carry can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.

If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to adopt a negative attitude instead? One who carries a negative attitude may be actually sending a signal for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.

As always, if you are beset by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the good things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome.

You have nothing to lose by adopting a healthy, positive attitude, but everything to gain! Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So, what’s not to like about a positive attitude? Adopt one today.

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It’s always best to set up a personal goal where you can accomplish the most in record time, maybe like mowing the lawn in an hour before the big game on TV. A correct and positive attitude in whatever you do will make things easier, and even enjoyable.

Here are some tips to make it through the week even if you’re just sitting in your favorite couch. An idea takes time to form in your head and is always at work while you are busy sitting.

Having a bit of positive thinking can help you realize things that you never thought possible.

1. Take passionate and consistent action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it.

2. Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul, out of love rather than fear. The American Dream will always be there, but a dream will still be a dream without motion. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

3. Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. Every time you hit on something that may appear too extreme, why not give it a shot and see if it will work. You will be surprised to see of there are other ways to get the task done in time. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.

4. Live completely in a place of gratitude. Learn to utilize what you have in your hands and make use of it in the most constructive way. Slipping into neediness will become less of a habit when you repeatedly shift towards gratitude, away from poverty consciousness.

5. Use a Passion Formula of Recognize/Reevaluate/Restore in place of the Shoulda/Woulda/Coulda whirlwind. The former is based in increased knowledge and abundance while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates.

6. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as ‘old as great-grandma’. Life has to much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.

7. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically. As long as there’s still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.

It’s interesting how people get wallowed up by something trivial as learning to use a computer, when nowadays that top computer companies are manufacturing software that even the kids can do it. I don’t mean to be condescending, but that’s the idea of not having any positive thinking in your life – you’ll just end up as a dim bulb in a dark corner. So instead of subjecting yourself to what you will be doomed for, make your path by taking the first step with a positive attitude.

If you answered yes to any of those questions then you probably wouldn’t be reading this in the first place. Most likely you have “settled for” your lot in life.

Thoreau said it best, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

If that describes you, then you must listen to what we have to say. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can be, do and have more! Your every wish can come true. You do not have to live that life of quiet desperation.

Claim what you rightfully deserve and live life to the fullest.

If you think that you are never going to get ahead financially; never going to find the “love of your life”; never going to succeed beyond a certain level – guess what? You’re probably right!

If that describes you, then you need help and you need it now! Change your mind and you will change your life. Read that again. Change your mind and you will change your life!

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This story is a true story about a truly amazing woman who took, probably without even knowing it, the exact steps that it takes to become a true entrepreneur.

• Find a problem
• Find a solution to the problem
• Find a hungry market that has the problem and market to them
• Keep going without waning, allowing nothing to dissuade you…

That woman was Sarah Breedlove.

Why, I hear you ask, is she SO different from any other woman in the world who becomes an emtrepreneur?

Well, if I tell you Sarah was born in 1867 on a Louisiana plantation and was an African American, the daughter of former slaves, can you begin to see why she IS SO inspirational?

Sarah was orphaned at the age of 7 and only survived by working in the cotton fields with her older sister. She got married at the tender age of 14 to escape the abuse of her brother in law.

She had a daughter at the age of 18 and was widowed at the age of 20. She then moved to St Louis to be near her 4 brothers who had become barbers. She worked her butt off for $1.50 a DAY and saved enough to educate her daughter. It was during this time that she began to view the world differently (although I would say that her tenacity and obvious mindset enabled her to do so!).

In her mid twenties she began to suffer from what I would say was alopecia (balding of the scalp). Imagine suffering that as a woman in your mid twenties?

She researched the ailment and tried a ton of home made remedies, one of which was by a lady called Annie Malone – an entrepreneur of the time.

In 1905 Sarah moved to Denver as a sales rep for Annie Malone, and met and married Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaperman. She changed her name to Madam CJ Walker, found a miracle cure for the scalp condition which contained sulphur, had a dream and started her own business.

Now, I am sure she could have mad a nice little business locally with her idea.

NOT Madam CJ Walker

She travelled the deep South and South East of the US for a year and a half KNOCKING DOORS!  giving demonstrations and growing her business. People have never liked door to door salesman let alone the fact that she was a woman in a time when men ruled the home.

• How many times do you think she had the door slammed in her face?
• How many times do you think she suffered rejection?
• How many times you you think she ran the risk of physical abuse ?

What A Woman!

She then moved to Pittsburgh where she opened a college to train people to do what she did.

By 1910 she had settled in Indianapolis and opened a factory. She began to travel the whole of the US telling all about her products.

When she died in 1919 at the age of 51 she had become the first self made woman American millionaire.

NOW !

If Madam CJ Walker did not have a millionaire mindset, then I dont know who has!

If you have your own Business or have thought about starting your own Business or maybe you are just starting out?

How much more inspiration do you need than what you have just read? Let me know your thoughts

(If you would like more info on Madam CJ Walker go to http://madamcjwalker.com/ )

Well, I am now left in no doubt that this is definitely the case!!

The other day I read an article which graced the front page of the Yahoo Home Page entitled “Are you REALLY worth it?”

I wont bore you with the whole article but suffice to say that it suggested that todays society was making people have to high a level of self esteem when they did not deserve it?!

Can you believe that?

The article went on to state that very high self esteem was as big a problem as low self esteem! It goes on to say that these contestants on TV talent shows like X Factor and Britains Got Talent, in the main, are talentless and deluded. God bless em! Are the media really that intent on brow beating us into believing that it is an offence to have ambition? Yes, I admit there are many who make us laugh they are so awful but I ask myself, “Would I get up on stage and sing, or lark about?”

The answer is No!

The article, whilst advocating that people thinking too much of themselves was making society very needy, also suggested that people should NOT drive themselves with ambition and desire.

This kind of leads you to think that maybe, just maybe, a lot of the problems in this world are actually made worse by the media style of reporting. It has been mooted that good news is not newsworthy, and that bad news and disaster gets an audience?

Well, I am here to tell you that the media are wrong.

Over the next few days and weeks, I will be writing more on why I believe this and what you need to do to move yourself towards a positive, driven way of thinking…

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