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Staying positive is always an effort. We need it all for our daily lives. We use it in building new businesses, working on jobs, and maintaining relationships with friends, families, relatives and your most beloved.
Take care of what you say
Every word that you say is going to bring good or bad to you. Simply if you say good things, good things will happen to you. And if you say bad things, bad things will happen to you too. Some people tend to have the idea of staying negative first while working on something good so that they wouldn’t feel as hurt if it doesn’t turn out to be good. In fact, I was one of them back in my teens in school before I reached my twenties. I felt really lousy as bad things happen to me when I thought it is going to be good!

However, I realize the power of miracles later on… Yes, you might feel really bad even though you are positive about it and it turned out to be the other way. But there is always something even more powerful and good to overcome the bad days! So long as you stay positive about it consistently… Good things might happen when you are positive… Bad things might happen when you are also positive, but something even better will come after the bad things!

For example, when we are working on a business, we tend to make some mistakes and our customers start to leave us one by one. But what we realize is that there is yet another group of customers waiting for us, willing to pay more. It is just like when you are trying to sell Ferrari cars which doesn’t attract the massive crowd out there, and therefore the sales is bad… However because of the huge pricing that you have quoted (a price which can even allow them to buy a nice house!), it has attracted the extremely rich crowd who lined up to buy since it is unique and not many people own it!

Take care of what you are listening
While many of us never realize about the power of music, the music can affect our moods to be negative as well. Yes, those sad songs are really nice to listen. But to continue listening, we will start to sing along in our minds and mouths. And remember that what you focus on expands, you will make those into reality… I know of one singer who got popular singing sad songs about not being able to be with his lover, and a few years later he really got into a divorce… It might just be coincidental though.

On the other hand, I do feel good after listening to motivational audio and people preaching. Those highly-spirited songs which make you sing words like “I am great! I am powerful! I can do it!” are good for your “health”. I realize many people out there avoid listening to such songs as they termed it as “old fashion” or something related… Just take a look at their positiveness in their lives and you will realize something just like I do… “negativeness in life”

Keep reading books which promote motivation and improvements
These books teach you how to be motivated and improve your lives. In actual fact, it is not really about the contents that they have written… It’s about the positive attitude that they are writing in the books that matters… You will feel really good after reading them.. Just like this blog which I am cultivating a positive blog in it. Do you feel positive after reading it?

When you faced with a problem…
In this world, we are always faced with problems. It is so common, it makes a lot of people defeated and got negative with life. Actually, the solution is very simple: “If you have a problem, find a solution and solve it!” A lot of people let the problem snowballed and carry on…

Let’s get real with this paragraph here. A problem is actually leading to a better solution! Whenever you faced a problem, get ready with a solution and do it and you might get even better results! Having this mentality, you can almost alway stay positive in spite of problems and no-problems…

When you are faced with no-problems…
No problem means you have a small solution in fact… You might not be able to improve better since you are not getting feedbacks about it… But of course, it is good to have no-problems…

Sometimes I just feel negative for no reasons…
Yup, we all do have mood-swing every now and then… Actually, it is a sign that we have to go for some alternate relaxation after being so hardworking (being solution-oriented actually leads you to more work to do happily)… Go out and enjoy yourself for a while… Stop thinking about the things on your desk for that while…

Make it a habit to do all the above
Keep doing it will make you feel uncomfortable at the initial stage… However, you will start to feel good after some time with a few hiccups here and there… But for sure, you will feel good once you reached your momentum…