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Can I have a positive outlook with all these issues of life?
Yes! I agree the times are difficult because you just lost your job, or you lost
your husband to a terrible sickness; you are in your mid-career life,
approaching forty years but no man wants your hand in marriage. The loan to see
your children through college or universities has bored a big hole on your finance.
Marrying that once-upon-a-time gentleman shouldn't have been an option.
The barrage of issues that hovers around us can drown us.
The peculiarity of our challenges is domiciled with our relative needs, and if
we refuse or deny taking charge of the situation, we start to droop. We droop
in our thought pattern which is central to every other thing. Taking charge or
staying on top of it is a decisive action which no one but you will have to
take. Wait a minute! Are you looking out from the right window? By window, I
mean outlook. There is a quick temptation to get negative in the heat of an
adversity. I've had a couple of them many times. I did last night. You think I
am a superman? Recovery time from this negative mode or mood should be kept as
short as possible. That's the difference- our mental inertia. Maintaining and
wearing a positive outlook in the face of difficult times is an
asset for successful living.
You probably have read some 5 keys or 7 doors to positive
thinking. If they worked, that’s ok. But if you had a relapse having read or
used the 5 keys for the 7 doors, I guess something must be missing. Hold on!
Shouldn't there be 7 keys for 7 doors? That was for the cheerful, upbeat key
you missed for the 7 doors. This is how I've always maintained a positive
outlook in difficult times:
1. 1.
Pray, pray and pray:
You cannot underplay the power of prayer in a time like
this. A brief idle time is enough for a thought to be used as a stop-gap to
transition you down the negative lane. I call it a distorting thought. When a
thought makes you flounder, and you cannot ponder the right thing, it is a
distorting thought; plunder it and take it captive. How? In prayer. There is an
energy or inner power that is made available for you after praying about your
helplessness or weakness-most importantly using God's powerful and written
words. Your countenance reflects confidence.
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2. Change your window:
The second part of this is the real work; everybody
can pray a word of prayer, but how many people can see the prayer answered the
moment you rise up from the prayer mood? Deliberately you have to start seeing
a change. Imagine yourself locked up in a house on Elm's Street resident with
evil and horror, and the other side of the house has a window overlooking the
candle lights of the Christmas carol. Which window would you rather look from?
Ignoring a negative comment, or issue is difficult. Such drops our self-esteem low.
Change the window by choosing wisely what you see, hear and who you surround
yourself with. I hate to be the host to a pity-party. Watching a stand-up
comedian is not a bad idea. This can make you stand upright across your moment
of minus.
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3.Pretend It's Gone:
After you've done all you can, its hard standing
again. Moment ago, you wore a positive outlook, but they are all gone. Mohammed
Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion who stung like a bee said that pretend
you are a champion even if you're not; soon you'd be a champion. Do the mind
game- pretend the issues are gone with the wind. Bishop T.D. Jake said, “The
battlefield is in the mind."Soon you will be light for a flight.
1. 4.. Play and Replay:
Another strategy I use is to sing to myself, and when
the issue rears its ugly head again, I sing. You don't have to be a Steve
Wonder to sing in order to make yourself happy. A merry heart is as good as
medicine. Imagine how a toddler forgets about hunger when there is a playmate
around, or peek-a-boo to enjoy. Time has a way of solving or resolving issues.
You don't have to stay there; get up and play. Recognize your playmates and friends.
But understand that playmates leave the playground when it's getting dark, but
a friend weaves a hug in the dark.
Final Word
You don’t have to stay there where you are. If you
look down right now, there is something you dropped behind you. Do you know
what it is? Your smile. Pick up your smile, and live positive again.
Please share if you have one or two ways you have maintained a positive outlook or attitude in the midst of trouble- family, faith, finance and workplace.You never can tell whom that would be of benefit to.Thanks for sharing.
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