How to Get Your Head Above Water and Keep It There

By Remez Sasson

You must have asked yourself many times, how to survive when there are financial problems, and how to get your head above water, and keep it there.

Positive thinking and visualization are a good solution, but the problem is that when you are in financial problems, and when there is a shortage of money, it is not so easy to think positively. Worries keep popping up, especially when you see the bills in front of you.

The solution is of course to be alert, and constantly, day after day, replace your worries and negative thinking with positive thinking.

Better still, to teach yourself positive thinking during the goods times, when it is easier to think positively, and much better it is, to learn and train yourself from an early age, but this is not always practical or possible.

How to get your head above water and keep it there?

Someone has written at the forum:

“It feels like my life has been on a downward spiral. I struggle to keep my head above water financially, and just as things seem to get back in line something else happens.

I realize that the most obvious answer is to stop worrying… but it’s not that easy when you see the bills in front of you, and you have no idea how to cover them.”

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Quotes of Optimism

What is optimism?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having “hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favourable or hopeful view.”

Optimism is also defined as:
1. The tendency to expect the best and see the best in all things
2. Hopefulness; confidence

Here are a few optimism quotes:

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
- William James

There are no hopeless situations, only people who are hopeless about them.
- Dinah Shore

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
- Alice Potter

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- Bo Bennett

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
- Mary Lou Retton

What do you think? You are invited to add your comments.

More Quotes and Sayings on Optimism
www.successconsciousness.com/quotes/optimism.htm

How to Build a Positive Attitude – Tips, Resources

By Remez Sasson

Here are a few tips and resources on how to build a positive attitude:

1. Become more aware of your thoughts.

2. When a negative thought enters your mind replace it with a positive thought.

3. Be kind to yourself. Do at least one thing a day that you enjoy doing, and which makes you happy.

4. Listen to music that you love.

5. Read about the life of positive and successful people.

6. Read every day inspiring quotes. You can find a collection of quotes at:
www.successconsciousness.com/quotes.htm

7. Visualize your life as you wish it to be, and believe in what you
visualize. Refuse to have doubts and negative thoughts. Read about
visualization at:
www.successconsciousness.com/index_000008.htm
www.successconsciousness.com/index_00000e.htm

8. Learn about how to build a positive attitude at:
www.successconsciousness.com/index_000009.htm

Read more articles on positive thinking that show you how to build a positive attitude:
www.successconsciousness.com/positive-thinking-articles.htm

9. Learn to use affirmations – positive statements.
www.successconsciousness.com/index_00000a.htm
www.successconsciousness.com/affirmations.htm

10. Join other people who are interested in building a positive attitude at our forum at:
www.successconsciousness.com/forums/forum-positive-thinking

11. The book Visualize and Achieve – A complete system for changing your attitude and attracting success into your life.

12. The book Affirmations Words of Power. A-Z tutorial on how to use affirmations.

High Expectations and Disappointments

By Remez Sasson

Do you think that the higher your expectations are the greater can be the disappointment?

Does this thought hold you from doing things in your life? If you think in this way, you will either refrain from acting, or subconsciously act in such a way as to bring failure and consequently disappointment into your life.

Not everything in life turns as one wants and expects, but that doesn’t mean one should not try. So what if there is failure? You learn from it and go on.

In order to achieve success in any area of life you need ambition and desire, and when you have ambition and desire, it is only natural to have expectations too. If there is fear of disappointment, you would either do nothing about your ambitions, or subconsciously spoil your chances of success, and then justify the saying that “The higher your expectations, the greater your disappointment.”

A good way to do things is to split them into small parts, small assignments or small ambitions. In this way they won’t feel intimidating, and it would be easier to achieve them. If things won’t work out, the disappointment won’t be great.

This question, about high expectations and disappointments, has been asked somewhere else at this blog, in the comments to the article “Anticipation and the Law of Attraction”, and an answer has been provided. Read more and post your comments.

Living One Positive Day

By Remez Sasson

Positive DayHow about making an experiment with positive thinking?

How about living one whole day thinking, talking and acting positively?

Spend one day being completely positive, in thoughts, words and actions. If you feel any negative thoughts creeping in, then push them away and replace them with positive ones.

On this day, speak positively. Use positive words, congratulate people, show them your appreciation.

Avoid negative feelings, and when you feel they are getting the upper hand, think about some pleasant event or situation from the past, or engage in some positive activity that will take your attention away from these negative feelings.

Put a smile on your face and greet every person you see in a friendly way.

Smile, be nice and talk politely, even to people you don’t like.

Approach every task and action with a positive attitude, and with the belief and confidence that you can do it.

You will be amazed how this kind of behavior works. You would see immediate results in the attitude of people toward you.

This might not be easy, but this is just an experiment for one day, so do your best. You might again and again think negatively, but again and again bring yourself to think and feel positively.

Imagine what would happen if you did this everyday. You could really make some big changes in your life, in your relationships and in your work.

If you can live one positive day, how about two days, one week, one month, or every day of your life? What you can do in one day, you can learn to do every day. This will completely change your life.

Start trying to be more positive every day. Always look for the good in every situation and make the most of it. Always look for the bright side and see the half full of the glass, and your life will start to be brighter and happier.