“It all begins with awareness. You can’t do anything about something if you don’t know you ought to do something about it. Get it? Most people are aware that they don’t know and that they know they don’t know. Consider this. Unless you notice what is wrong, for example, a leak in the basement, you can’t change or fix it. Understand this?

The moment you become aware that your focus is negative or on what you don’t want you have a choice. Some people don’t realize this either. They don’t know it is up to them to choose. Each of us must decide whether or not we are going to have the basement leak fixed. You could think, maybe it will stop on its own. You could do nothing.

In order to make positive things happen you must decide to make positive things happen. SO when you notice yourself speaking negatively to yourself or others, feeling negative or down or angry, any time you think, feel, speak and behave less than gloriously, ONCE you notice STOP! Stop creating what you don’t want. Stop attracting what you don’t want.

Activate Your Attitude! Manage Your Mindset For Happiness And Success

STOP perpetuating the old conditioning, the problem, the limiting belief, the destructive words or behavior, the less-than-glorious feelings, STOP the old bad habits. If you don’t stop and keep stopping them, they will persist and persist. Stop thinking about all the negative things you are thinking about. Stop feeling, speaking and behaving negatively. STOP IT!

STOP it and keep stopping it. If you are running while on fire you stop running. You drop and roll LONG enough until the fire is completely out. You don’t jump back up and run while the fire is still burning. Habits require repeated dedication to change them. When you notice the old come up you STOP and then shift to what you want to encourage instead. Get this!

You become what you think about. You get what you focus on. What you think about you bring about. Birds of a feather flock together. If you are thinking negative thoughts, you are creating more negativity. Your opportunity NOW is to stop creating negativity and to create positivity. Begin to create what you want instead. Stop thinking about what you don’t want.

Activate Your Attitude! Manage Your Mindset For Happiness And Success

Let it go! Drop those thoughts completely! Turn your attention to what you DO want. Keep your focus on it! Leave those not-so-good thoughts behind. Leave them alone. Stop doing anything to engage them. Drop them. Leave the less-than-productive-thinking and complaining behind. Set your mind to focus only on what you do want.

If your mind wanders off, bring it back to what you want. When you drive a car or bike in a straight lane realize you are not going completely straight. You make micro-adjustments to stay in the center of the lane all the time. You are constantly adjusting and steering your car towards the center of the lane or within the lines. Take control and steer back to center!

Accept this premise that the center IS the positive place you want to be. It’s an analogy. Steer back to positivity. Get it! Whenever you notice yourself off center, thinking negatively, thinking about what you don’t want, thinking about lack, whining, complaining or blaming, steer your mind back to the positive thoughts. Unless you do this, you never will!

Activate Your Attitude! Manage Your Mindset For Happiness And Success

Do this and you will develop the habit of catching yourself and returning to the ‘I Can Do’ place in your mind. Soon enough this process will become automated, and you will naturally think more positively more of the time. This process is so cool! You’ll love it! Remember, thinking and speaking are the same thing. Keep the words you say to yourself and to others positive and your life will change! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes