What is the big deal about being positive? How can we be positive in a recession? People are losing jobs right and left, do you tell them to be positive? What is there to be positive about? Now, I may have missed a few, but these were some of the questions asked of me at a recent empowerment workshop.
Each year I repeat the same thing over and over again. Your success is directly related to your positive mindset. Your circumstances change, when you change your mindset. At this event however, I decided to switch it up a bit. Instead of speaking on the benefits of being positive, I simply asked,”What Now?” You are in a recession, you have lost your job and you have nothing but negativity around you, so again, I ask, “What Now?” It was a moment before one attendee said, “You have to do something to change your situation.”
And so my point remained the same. If you know something needs to be done to change the situation you are in, and you expect to have a different result by doing what needs to be done, could one not assume that you are being positive? You have now created the beginnings of a positive mindset.
Being positive is not a one step action or thought. It is a thought process that should one choose to follow could change their direction, their lives, and it could put them on the road to success in whatever their endeavor may be. Having a positive mindset can improve ones quality of life and when coupled with doses of integrity, value, self esteem, faith and a heaping dose of a giving spirit; one now has the makings of a positive mindset, improved quality of life and success.
You can see things start to happen, doors start to open and obstacles removed from your path when you change your mindset. Not only your mindset, but you changed how you looked at those negative things in your life. One should always remember that your thoughts create your reality, so be positive. Embrace a positive mindset and imagine your possibilities.
Shalonda Jones - Leading to Success With S. Jones Group
