“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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Why Read ? (1200 Words)
This is a quest post from Bake, a 26 year old online blogger with an abundance of inspirational thoughts to share with the world. He shares his viewpoint on life at bakerthebrand.com
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Hello all
I Developed My Positive Outlook Over Time. My positive outlook in life is something I’ve learned to develop over the years. While I was growing up, it wasn’t always this way. I grew up in a home with yelling and self limiting and negative belief systems.
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These self limiting belief systems became my reality, because at an early age you don’t really know what to believe unless your parents tell you so. I would say that the majority of my teenage life it was easier for me to look at the negatives in life way before I saw the positive things. This lead to excessive partying, drinking, and some drugs. Teenage years are usually filled with a lot of confusion anyway, but when I added the negative thoughts with this, it made for a pretty gloomy dark way of life..
It wasn’t until I began to study and read books on personal development and self help that I began to see the negative thought patterns that were no longer serving me. This different way of thinking didn’t have anything to with being realistic, or unrealistic. It became a way of thinking that allowed me freedom to create my own reality. It gave me back the power that lies in each one of us.
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Personal Development Seminars
I began to attend seminars on topics that made me improve my way of life dramatically.
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I can remember in particular in 2004 attending an Expo in Los Angeles, CA. where Russel Simmons was one of the keynote speakers and he said something very profound that stuck with me until this day. He said, high achievers, and or very successful people develop this thing inside of them called “An unwavering and strong belief in the unseen.“
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With this he was referencing a strong held belief of your life’s mission or vision for yourself. It sent chills up my spine the moment he stated this. The message really resonated with me. If I was ever to get to a place in my life where my dreams would come true, I would have to develop this faith, this belief in the unseen. I started to recognize that if that vision of what I wanted in my life was real inside of me, then it was just a matter of time and proper actions steps to actually get there in my phsyical reality.
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Victim v.s Victor
Many people go around life in complain mode, and always try to find what is wrong with their life. It is a lot easier to find the wrong or negative thing in life, than it is to find the positive things in life. This is mainly because of how most of us were socially conditioned to believe in our younger years.
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From my personal experience and observation, a negative outlook on life will eventually lead you to that exact same place, a negative place, filled with whining, complaining, little progress, and self victimization. My personal experience has showed me that a constant negative outlook on life really just leaves you a victim to circumstances versus the victor in the circumstances.
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Maintaining A Positive Outlook For Yourself
Maintaining a positive outlook on life, allows your dreams and visions for the future to come true. It allows you the opportunity to see opportunities when they arise and take positive action towards them. Maintaining a positive outlook on life, allows you to become the victor in circumstances, and not the victim. This positive outlook on life attracts to you the people, and resources that will assist and help you on your progress. A positive outlook on life gives you a proactive approach in life and allows you to create the life you want.
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This positive outlook keeps you empowered.
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Many of the wonderful and amazing opportunities that have come to me as a result of these blogs, have come from maintaining a positve outlook on life. Two books I’ve written that I’m passionate about, have been successfully completed from my positive outlook in life.
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Even if you aren’t clear on what your mission or vision for life is quite yet, just knowing and truly believing that one exist for you, and maintaining a positive outlook on life will help assist you in this process of self discovery, and personal development. Below I have included the 5 results that I benefit from by maintaining a positive outlook on life.
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5 Results I Benefit From by Maintaining A Positive Outlook on Life
1. More Clarity
My days are generally filled with clear thoughts when I choose to think more positive. This is because clarity for me comes from an honest and true place of light. This mindset is where I find most clarity. As you begin to maintain a positive outlook in life, a lot more clarity in your life begins to unfold. This is because the spirit progresses forward when you are focused on the positive things in life, and thus makes your decisions more spirit based, and therefore more clearer. This awareness of a maintaining a positve outlook on life, will give your life more clarity.
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2. Better Connections with others
A positive outlook has allowed me to say what I mean, and mean what I say. People know where they stand with me, because I can clearly get my point across when needed. A positive outlook in your life will allow you this same type of communication with others. As your inner world becomes positive, your outer world also becomes positive. Therefore, your outer world communications with others, become better as a result of a positive outlook. The truth is that better communications with others comes from maintaining a positive outlook in life.
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3. Develop More Creativity
For me it is much easier to create a blog post when my thoughts are positive. This is because I know that when my ideas are positive and clear, I can have a better way of communicating through written word, my true intentions for a particular post. As you develop a more positive outlook on life, you begin to see your creativity enhance if you choose. Practice keeping positive thoughts in your daily life, and you will come up with creative ideas to either solve problems, and create value for others to enjoy.
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4. More Excitement!
I live an exciting life. No two days are ever the same for me. A positive outlook keeps everything in focus for me, and thus allows me to experience a lot more excitement on a daily basis. Through the law of attraction my positive thoughts attract to me exciting places to be and experience. For instance I’m always being invited to fun parties and exciting events because of my positive attitude. This is because my positive thoughts transmute an energy out to the universe that allows for these fun and exciting events and opportunities to manifest in my life. As you begin to think in more positive ways, the same will happen for you.
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5. More Opportunity to share
Through this blog, I have the opportunity to share my philosophies, and personal development journey with many others. Through my Youtube videos, I am allowed to share joy, inspiration, and empowerment. This all results from a positive outlook. I enjoy this feeling, of being able to share this.
As you begin to take on a more positive outlook on life, you will have the same opportunity to share with other people in a positive way. You will be able to take advantage of the opportunity share your talents, wisdom, and gifts to others.
Please let me know what you think about this post, leave me a comment above this post. Thank you!!!
8 Comments
Great post and thanks Jonny for introducing us to Baker – he’s got a great blog going.
Hi Tom.
He has indeed. Definitely check him out.
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I definitely think that having a positive outlook on life is what people take for granted. When we venture out into the “real world” there can be so many influences that can hinder our happiness and it’s important to build that positive confidence within ourselves. Life moves more smoothly when we use our optimist advantage.
with gratitude,
kimbundance
Hi Kim and welcome to the site,
I like to think of optimism as the oil of life, helping things “run more smoothly” as you say.
The benefits form positive thinking are countless, and I agree with the one’s you provided here. Particularly, I think that a positive attitude does provide more clarity, it prompts us to explore to examine and take steps we might otherwise overlook. In doing this we develop clarity of purpose. I think the other ideas provided also tie into this. As we develop more clarity there is a good chance we will have better relationships, be in touch with our creativity, and continue to maintain an excited perspective on life. Of course, it is easier said than done, but a very good item to strive for.
Hi Joe, welcome to the site.
being positive is definitely easier said than done though by proactively looking to improve every day we move forward. I checked out your site and was very impressed with the podcasts. Very professional and you are a very confident speaker.
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