Have you ever wanted to be more positive but felt unable to? The good news is you can do something about how you feel.

Mahatma Gandhi said, "A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

The emotions you have are there because of the thoughts that precede them. Changing your thoughts is very similar to changing your habits, any habit. If you want to start eating healthier or start exercising, it all starts with the first step.

And it's probably going to be difficult in the beginning, because you’re trying to change something that you’re used to, and that your body is used to. However, after a couple of weeks you will start to feel comfortable in the new you.

This is exactly the process you can follow to change your thoughts and supercharge your life with positivity:

•   Read
Read books that inspire, encourage, and motivate you. It doesn’t really matter if you already know what the book is all about. What matters is that you continually feed your mind with positive and inspirational material. The more time you can spend in the land of the positive, the better.

•   Focus
Focus on the positive instead of dwelling upon the negative. While this might sound overly simplistic, most people don’t do it. Most people concentrate on the problems at hand instead of the solutions.

It has been shown that most of our worries never even happen. That means that you are worrying and making yourself feel stressed out for no reason at all.

Next time you feel the negativity come on, flip it over and think about the positive aspect of it and what you can do about it. For example, instead of asking "Why me?" or "Why am I so unlucky?" ask yourself "What can I learn from this?” and “How can I turn this around?"

•   Habits
What kind of habits do you have right now that cause negativity in your life? What would your life look like if you started to change them? When we make the decision to change a habit, it almost happens by itself, but you have to be determined to make it happen.

•   Goals
The majority of people never set any goals. It can be scary to decide on where you want to go, and you want to leave your options open, but nothing happens until you get clear about where you want to go and what you want to do.

•   Passion
Many people notice that when they start following their passion and moving towards the life of their dreams, the positivity in their lives magically increased.

Most people are doing things they don’t want to do, and they never even take a step towards finding and going after their passion.

Don't let this be you. Go after your dreams, even if it means only being able to put aside ten minutes a day. If you start today, you can build upon what you have, but if you keep putting it off, it will never happen.

Increasing the positivity in your life is simple, but not easy. You have to take responsibility and make it happen, because no one will do it for you.

Reworked from an article by Henri Junttila of Wake Up Cloud.

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