7 ways to a Better Mindset
How you approach yourself, your day and situation makes all the difference. It defines wether you will make progress or relive your loop of unhappy
1. Start the day with positive affirmation.
How you start the morning sets the tone for the rest of the day. Have you ever woken up late, panicked, and then felt like nothing good happened the rest of the day? This is often because you started out the day with a negative emotion and a pessimistic view which then slithered its way into every other event you experienced. Instead of letting this dominate you, start your day with positive affirmations. Talk to yourself in the mirror, even if you feel silly, with statements like, "Today will be a good day" or "I'm going to be awesome today." You'll be amazed how much your day improves.
2. Focus on the good things, however small.
Almost invariably, you're going to encounter obstacles throughout the day-there's no such thing as a perfect day. When you encounter such a challenge, focus on the benefits, no matter how slight or unimportant they seem.
3. Find humour in bad situations.
Allow yourself to experience humour in even the darkest or most trying situations. Remind yourself that this situation will probably make for a good story later and try not to see it as an "end of the world".
4. Turn failures into lessons.
You aren't perfect, and the reality is no one else is either. You're going to make mistakes and experience failure in multiple contexts, at multiple jobs and with multiple people. Instead of focusing on how you failed, think about what you're going to do next time, what you can take from this experience and how you got through it-turn your failure into a lesson.
5. Transform negative self-talk into positive self-talk.
Negative self-talk can creep up easily and is often hard to notice, it might just seem normal to you. You might think I'm so bad at this or I shouldn't have tried that. But these thoughts turn into internalized feelings and might cement your conceptions of yourself. When you catch yourself doing this, stop and replace those negative messages with positive ones. For example Once I get more practice, I'll be way better at this, OR That didn't work out as planned-maybe next time.
6. Focus on the present.
I'm talking about the present-not today, not this hour, only this exact moment. Focus on this one, individual moment. In most situations, you'll find it's not as bad as you imagine it to be. Most sources of negativity stem from a memory of a recent event or the exaggerated imagination of a potential future event. Stay in the present moment.
7. Surround yourself with Positive People.
When you surround yourself with positive people, you'll hear positive outlooks, positive stories and positive affirmations. Their positive words will sink in and affect your own line of thinking, which then affects your words and similarly contributes to the group. Finding positive people to fill up your life can be difficult, but you need to eliminate the negativity in your life before it consumes you. Do what you can to improve the positivity of others, and let their positivity affect you the same way.