| Maintaining a positive attitude can be learned by | | | | yourself will begin to be. You are retraining your mind |
| anyone. It may require a little direction, but with personal | | | | by practicing and maintaining a positive attitude. |
| effort and time, you can achieve and maintain the | | | | 6. Visualization. Envision yourself as successful and |
| attitude of success and leave negativity behind. | | | | positive. Create an attraction and your mind will move |
| Here are twelve steps you can follow to boost your | | | | toward it. |
| attitude into the positive range. See how many you are | | | | 7. Fight stress. Learn relaxation techniques and |
| doing, and how many you need to work on. You can | | | | meditation. Slow down, take time to focus on your |
| raise up your attitude, and your self-esteem in the | | | | own well being. Put stressful situations into context. Eat |
| same process. | | | | healthy, exercise moderately, spend fun time with |
| 1. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. | | | | friends or family. |
| These are lyrics in an old time song and it works. | | | | 8. Simplify, unload. Get rid of physical and mental |
| Focus on the good things that happen each day. If you | | | | baggage. Stop going over old negatives. Unclutter your |
| have negatives, look at how you fight to eliminate or | | | | living space, lighten up! |
| combat them, and feel good about that. | | | | 9. Help someone else. Learn to see the rest of the |
| 2. Make lists. Take a few quiet moments and write | | | | world you are part of and help make it better for all. |
| down the positives and the negatives in your life. Then | | | | 10. Personal health, laugh more. Improve your physical |
| cross off all the negatives you feel are untrue. Cross | | | | health, find laugh breaks every day. Laughter is the |
| off negatives that others attribute to you. Then | | | | best medicine! It can have physical benefits. |
| prioritize the positives, most important at the top of the | | | | 11. Live in the present. Stop repeating in your mind old |
| list. Form a positive picture of yourself. | | | | wounds and stresses. Plan for the future. |
| 3. Know that you are in control of your life, and quit | | | | 12. Appreciate what you have, be happy, and be |
| blaming others. Be responsible, take accountability for | | | | grateful for what you have. Don't always want more; if |
| your own actions. Recognize defeatist behavior and | | | | you are not happy with what you have, you will never |
| stop doing it. | | | | be happy because you will always want something |
| 4. Tackle problems head on, take action. Don't wait for | | | | else. |
| disaster when you see it coming; take evasive or | | | | Maintaining a positive attitude can be learned. Children |
| protective actions. If you need to go to a doctor, do it! | | | | can be trained in it. Adults can, if they want to, retrain |
| 5. Positive self affirmations create a positive mindset. | | | | to do better at having a positive attitude. Don't make |
| List them on the bathroom mirror so you can say | | | | the mistake of thinking you cannot do this, because |
| them several times a day. Eventually, what you tell | | | | you can! |