Positive Attitude

Few things can affect your overall quality of life as powerfully as your attitude can. Your attitude affects your career, your relationships, your hobbies, and even your financial status. Most people discover that when they improve their attitude, everything else in their lives seems to improve also.

A daily practice of gratitude is one simple way to give yourself a painless attitude adjustment because it reduces your temptation to focus on more “negative” mind-sets. When you feel grateful it is nearly impossible to feel frustrated, sad, empty, or disconnected. A negative focus and a gratitude focus cannot … read more

Appreciation is such a powerful tool for shifting your focus in a positive direction. One of the best ways to use appreciation is to help remove your focus from everything that’s going wrong.

Many of us get caught up in obsessing about the negative stuff and all day long our thoughts go something like this: “I hate this job, it would be so much easier if they would just let me do my work instead of bothering me constantly with meetings, change this, do that…ugh! Oh, here comes Ms. Annoying again, what terrible tales of woe does she … read more

Have you ever felt paralyzed by negative feelings before? Perhaps you felt overwhelmed by stress, overcome with anxiety, or filled with frustration about the many things that keep going wrong for you. And the longer you feel that way, it seems like the worse things get in your life, right?

There’s a reason for that, and it’s called the law of attraction. Your thoughts, feelings and beliefs magnetically keep attracting the essence of what you focus on the most. If you’re focused mostly on stressful circumstances, worries and problems, you can’t help but continue that cycle the … read more

“As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily.” – Adabella Radici

Love this quote! The problem is, sometimes a grateful mindset isn’t quite so automatic. In fact, many of us have gotten into the habit of holding a cynical, doubtful, pessimistic mindset more often than a grateful or appreciative one.

No matter what happens in your life, you have the power to choose your mindset – did you know that? Today I was reminded yet again that when something seemingly “bad” happens, our perception of it doesn’t necessarily have to BE bad.

We can choose to see it as a blessing in disguise, and the true gift hasn’t yet appeared. We can choose to see it as a powerful learning experience and be grateful for the lesson. We can choose to see it as a giant cosmic joke and enjoy a good laugh about it.