Negativity generates loser behaviours.
What is negativity in a practical sense?
Negativity and negative thinking can cost you everything. The sooner you can be rid of it and the negative people around you, the more you can achieve.
Negative thinking is dangerous because many thoughts happen deep inside your mind, and you cannot read, reach, or even control them on a conscious level. The key is to realise that reacting negatively will not change what has happened. Negative thinking can manifest in all sorts of situations and usually creeps up without notice, burying itself deep inside your mind and becoming a bad habit that is hard to break.
Although there may be deep psychological reasons why you experience negative thoughts, you don’t need to know ‘why‘ you think negatively to stop them successfully; you need to know ‘what‘ thoughts you are thinking.
Clear your mind of negative thoughts.
When you start thinking negatively, it can be tempting to try to force those thoughts out of your mind, but unfortunately, this often backfires. Resisting negative thoughts can reinforce your thinking and make things worse. The more you try not to think about something, the more you think about it.
To eliminate negative thinking, you need to try a different approach.
Negativity can be controlled by retraining your brain.
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to handle adversity well while others plummet into negativity when life doesn’t go their way? The same event can happen to two people and one might respond by thinking: “That’s just a minor inconvenience”, while the other will think: “I can’t believe this has happened to me, it’s just terrible.”
You do have the ability to change the way you think. Just as a footballer trains for hours to perfect, kicking the ball off the right foot and then the left foot until it becomes an automated response, you, too, can retrain your brain. With the proper practice, you can teach yourself to be more positive, allowing you to be relaxed in situations you would typically avoid or find stressful, and help you to be less of a perfectionist or worried.
Retrain your brain to replace negative thinking with the power of positive thinking. Do you wake up on the wrong side of the bed every day? If you find that negative thoughts are starting to control your life, take action before stress starts to weigh you down. Learn to identify and eliminate negative thoughts, replacing them with positive actions. Not only will opportunities start to present themselves, but you’ll have the power to change your frame of mind and the outcomes you are achieving.
Quotable quotes.
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory”. William Hazlitt
“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy”. George Foreman