People often ask me why positive thinking does not work for them. Here is an email message I have received recently:

“I’ve been trying this whole positive thinking thing for about 2 years now with no results. Things actually seen to be getting worse. I’m up to my neck in debt and my health isn’t the greatest. I watched “The secret” and thought, “wow”, but after a while of really trying to change my thought patterns, I had to give up on it.”

Why does this happen?

Like everything in life, positive thinking requires constant training. You need to try again and again until you succeed. Rarely things change overnight.

Usually, when people first hear about positive thinking and how it can change their lives, they get excited and elated, but if they don’t see immediate results, they often get disappointed and discouraged and lose any faith in positive thinking.

To make it work for you, you need to make it your predominant mental attitude, and not something you think about only now and then. It is not enough to be positive for a few minutes and negative for the rest of the day.

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Are you a victim of negative thinking? Do you feel upset, down, disappointed or frustrated? Do you find yourself thinking on problems, failure, obstacles or bad health? Do you worry a lot?

If you let negative thoughts invade into your mind, you are actually surrendering your mastery over your life. You are letting these negative thoughts rule your life. Just consider how much time and energy you spend on worries, fears or anxiety! It is just wasted time and energy.

If you do nothing to prevent negative thinking, its power over you will grow, which means that you will expect failure and problems, and therefore will not try to improve your life.

The best way to prevent negative thinking is to focus on its opposite, on positive thinking. Don’t fight your negative thoughts, because this means you will focus on them, making them stronger. Better focus on solutions, on finding a way out, on positive mental images and on doing things and taking action.

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You can start improving the quality of your life right now. Even small things count, such as going to sleep earlier at night, waking up earlier in the morning, or reducing the time you spend in front of the TV.

Money can certainly improve the quality of your life, and finding a more rewarding job might be on your list, but there are many other things you can do to improve your life, health, relationships or peace of mind.

The first step is to look at your life and find out what actions you can take right now to transform and improve your life. There are things you can do right now, which will affect your life immediately.

It is not enough to arrive to a decision to take a certain action, you have to follow your decision, and here is the difficulty. Most people don’t have the inner strength to follow their decisions, and this brings frustration and disappointment. To carry on your decision about anything, you need will power and self discipline, which will keep you on the track. Will power and self discipline are not so difficult to develop, actually, this can be fun and very rewarding, and you don’t have to harsh on yourself to develop them as you might think.

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