Years ago I remember thinking that positive thinking was a crock! Yes, that’s exactly what I thought. I believed that there was a reality and that’s just the way it was, that things happened to you and that you couldn’t control them. I thought that all motivational speakers and life coaches were frauds just trying to get money out of people and that you thoughts were something that you couldn’t control.

Do I think that now?
No, of course not, but has taken me a lot of time and research to come to this conclusion.
Now I have absolutely proven that what you think and what you concentrate on really does shape your reality and your world. Coming to this conclusion took a lot of faith and a lot of trial and error. I have lived with being a negative or “realistic” person and experienced those results and alternatively I have chosen to think in a more positive and open way and I have experienced completely different results. Opportunities have opened up to me that previous would not have. I have met and enjoyed talking to people that previously I would not have interacted with, and I have grown and experienced so much more. And that is only the beginning.

I have come to understand that all things do happen for a reason, even if we do not understand that reason, and that we are all capable of truly amazing things once you let go of any thoughts that “I can’t do that”.

We are all victims of the daily thoughts and limitations that we place on ourselves. This is often programming that we receive from a very age, sometimes from our parents, siblings, friends or just society in general. How often have you heard stories of people who in circumstances that are unusual to themselves, find that they are more capable than they would have ever imagined? That is because once people are out of the confines of how they usually define themselves, they no longer face the mental limitations they have developed over long periods of time and just act.

So how do we overcome these daily thought limitations? By changing our thought patterns. By asking ourselves different questions. Instead of asking yourself “why am I so fat?”, ask yourself “what can I do to help myself lose weight right now?” or instead of saying to yourself “I am hopeless, I always make the same mistakes” say “I have learned from my previous mistakes and will do everything in my power to make sure I do not repeat them”.

It is something that you can teach yourself and like anything you need to keep practising at it until it becomes automatic. For me, I found reading about other people’s journeys really helped. You realise that all people, even highly successful ones have doubted themselves at some stage, but that they are able to put those thoughts aside and move onto more positive thoughts and ultimately a solution to their problems.

Something to…..think about?

Well I hope so.