You wake up; it's a new dawn, a new day, and yet somehow it doesn't feel much different than the day before. It's like today has yesterday written all over it.
Not only is it the same routine as the day before with perhaps a few variances here and there, but the feelings of yesterday may have also carried forward into this pristine day.
It's tough sometimes not to get caught up in mindsets of "woe is me", or worrying, or feeling stressed, or stuck in the mundanes or busyness of the prior day(s) and transfer those feelings into the next.
Echoes of yesterday(s) may not sound too exciting or inviting when you look to tomorrow.
So; how do you leave yesterday behind and start fresh today?
How do you break the negative thinking and feelings?
How do you look forward to each new day as if anything is possible?
You can start before you go to bed by setting your intention of what, or how, you would like things to be tomorrow and then putting them into action.
Either at night or in the morning take out a blank piece of paper and let your imagination soar and show you how your day could be.
Write about it, or jot down some inspirational word or draw or put pictures on your paper of what you can focus on. Look at it throughout the day and remind yourself of how you would like things to be and make steps towards making it so.
When you rise, you can ask God, (whatever you believe this to be) to lead the way today and to show you how you can be of the greatest service and to see the possibilities, not the problems at hand.
Become aware of when you are slipping into the pessimism and remember there is another option, enthusiasm. The more enthusiastic and resourceful you are, the likelihood for better outcomes increases.
Read:
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Try different things during the day - a new way to work, listening to music or going for a walk to clear the cob-webs in your thinking, changing the way you do and view things, etc.
Be more conscious of "how" you are doing things throughout the day. Notice what your thoughts are and how you are handling what you want to accomplish.
Tackle one thing at a time the best you can rather than a whole lot of things done in a mediocre way.
Slow down and don't rush through your day; enjoy it as much as possible. Take a break now and then and re-group, re-organize, and re-new.
Be grateful for the day - the people in it, your job, your home, your car, your clothes, the food you eat, the money you have, the beauty surrounding you, and the fact that you have this day.
Be hopeful. If you don't like today as it is, see if there are ways you can change it. Take a look at your thoughts as they are usually a good indicator of why your day is continuing the way it is.
You have to catch those discouraging and downbeat thoughts as soon as you can and re-write them, literally or in your minds-eye.
It's good to allow your feelings to surface but then it's up to you how you are going to turn things around and become positive and pro-active again.
What are your options? How can you improve things?
The greatest gift you can receive from a new day is that you have one, even as bleak as it may seem some days.
Let yesterday be yesterday and tomorrow be tomorrow. Embrace today in every way you can.
Look to what's bothering about today and make use of it by inspiring you to be and do things in a better way.
Remember, today is a new day and anything is possible! It's up to you.
If you use these techniques with insight, you will be assisted in not transferring yesterdays to today.
Attitude can be defined as the way an individual looks at life. It is the outward reflection of what is taking place on the inside. It becomes his/her personality...it pervades their feelings and becomes their actions. Attitude is one of the most important aspects of life and a key to interpersonal relationships. There are two types of relationships in animal (or human) life, symbiotic and parasitic. Symbiotic relationships are mutually beneficial. Both of the animals (or organisms) involved receive a benefit from the other living with them.
Parasitic, on the other hand, is a destructive relationship where one benefits to the detriment of the other. When trying to accomplish something new, or break old habits in life, we need to associate ourselves with others who bring us up, those that help us become more than we were without them. Creating symbiotic relationships will only accelerate our progress. Attitude is key in tough situations; the better your attitude is in tough times, the better those opportunities become.
An oft-quoted cliché illustrates this point: "Most people are as happy as they want to be". There are very few, if any, easy roads to take on the road to success. Bumps and potholes, construction and traffic jams will constantly confront the typical person. The difference comes in how well the person can handle these difficulties. Shakespeare wrote: "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so". Attitude leans heavily on thoughts, and the harder things seem in the mind, the more difficult they will be in reality. It is imperative that everyone makes themselves as happy as they can be, and forsake the negative thinking disposition, and become forward thinking individuals.
Attitude, like the common cold, is contagious. The more negative people that there are in a room, the more negative the conversation will become. The inverse is also true. Think about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the face of hatred, death threats, trials, and persecution he pronounced, "I have a dream". His dream was for the future. It was positive. Many people looked at his attitude and proclaimed that he was a dreamer, and that he was crazy. However, to the masses who followed him, his dream became one that penetrated skin color and pierced the hearts of thousands. About half a century later, no one can look back and say that he was not effective.
He sold millions in the future generations on his "dream"...what he really sold was a contagious positive attitude. It has been said by a well-known motivator, "It's your Attitude rather than you're your Aptitude that ultimately determines your Altitude". Very simple, you can become what you put your mind to. In all the studies done there is no evidence to say your knowledge or ability will give you the upper hand. The key to success is positive attitudes. There are many people with minimal abilities achieving greater heights than people with far greater knowledge or learning. Attitude has been called the spiraling effect.
This is the effect "like minded" people have on each other. It's been said; "Birds of a feather flock together". It can work both in the positive and the negative directions. If you have ever been in an environment where people hated their jobs and talked bad about their employer then you know how that can affect attitude. It can feel like a thousand pound weight weighing you down. On the flip side, groups of very successful people create more wealth for each other, as their positive attitudes create a form of synergy. In contrast the other group creates a negative synergy and the group becomes much less effective. It's the old saying the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. I believe they do it because of their own attitudes.
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