I've developed a reputation as the positivity shrink and today you get 6
ways to instantly become a more positive person. First up, right out of the chute,
smile. Loosen up a little bit. Pay attention to what your face is
communicating. Are you happy? Have you told your face? Use a smile and
smooth out the lines a little bit, okay? A lot of times we get this concerned look
on our face, okay? And we get Schuanchie right? (Is that even a word? Schunachie?)
Right up here in the forehead and the eyebrows. Pay attention to your eyebrows
and smooth them out a little bit. This will convey positivity. It will also
increase your energy. It'll help you to feel more positive. Just try it for a
minute. Pay attention to your face. Okay, here we go. Smile, loosen up the eyebrows.
Isn't that awesome? That's tip number 1. Tip number 2, focus on what you like.
Not what you don't like. Everything that happens to us has upsides and downsides.
Correct? Focus on what you like. The upsides of
whatever it is you're doing. Let's say that it's your job. Are there upsides or
there things that you like about your job? Yes, there are. Take just a moment and
think of 3 of them right now. Think of 3 things that you like about your
job. How about three things that you like about your family or your key
relationships? How about 3 things that you like about something that's a
little difficult or painful for you? I am at the moment recovering from surgery on
my achilles. And that's been painful and difficult and frustrating. Well what if I
focus on everything I don't like about that well that's not going to be very cool.
What do I like about it? You know what? I really like that I appreciate my
health more than I did before I had the surgery. I really like that my sweet wife,
Vicki has been serving me so diligently and lovingly. I can't even drive. So she's
my cute little uber assistant. Are there things that I like about it, yes? When I
focus on those things, I'm more positive. This is a way to become instantly more
positive. Here's tip number 3 and it's very closely related. Focus on what
you have not on what's missing or lacking. Look, there are 2 very distinct
mindsets or paradigms that we can get into. The way that we see the world. 1
of those is a mindset of scarcity or lack or deficiency. The other is a
mindset of abundance. That there's always enough. That there is enough and to spare.
Focus on what you have not on what you don't have. Colleague of mine Chad Hymas
is a professional speaker. He's a Hall of Fame speaker. Go look him up. You're going
to enjoy Chad's work. Chad is quadriplegic. He suffered an accident
that left him without the use of all four limbs. What if he were to focus on
what he can't do or what he lacks right now? That would just be depressing.
In fact, Chad talks about this in his book. Getting things done. When he shifted
his mindset over to what he can do, what he has, what he's capable of, that changed
the whole game for him and instantly made him a more positive person. Which
incidentally is very inspiring to other people as well. And it ties directly into
that next tip that I had for you. Focus on what you can do not what you can't do.
So notice that these 3 are very similar. Focusing on what you like, not
what you don't like. Focusing on what you have not what you're lacking. And
focusing on what you can do not what you can't do. Honestly there are more things
on this earth that you can't do than things that you can't. There are more
things outside of your abilities or capabilities then there are within what
you're able to do. So, just accept that and realize it's not bad news. You can
focus on all that stuff you can't do and end up feeling depressed and discouraged
or you can focus on what you can do which helps you to feel better and
instantly makes you a more positive person. Here's the added benefit, when you
focus on what you can do, it puts you in a position to actually do that thing and
to do it for other people who are going to appreciate that and there's a
financial contribution that's going to come back your way as a result of having
served someone through what you can do. There's an economic benefit here that I
think we need to pay attention to. Alright, tip number 5 on how to become
a more positive person instantly. Practice gratitude. Gratitude. Not pretend
to be grateful. I'm talking actual gratitude for what you appreciate about
your life the way it is right now without changing anything. Probably the
quickest way that I know to get to a positive evaluation of your life. And
positivity includes two elements. I've talked about this on other videos how
there's evaluation or judgment of our life, what it is. And there's creation of
what is to be and that doesn't exist yet because we haven't created it yet. And
the quickest way I know to get to a positive evaluation of your life the way
it is right now without changing anything is to practice gratitude. Focus
on what you are truly sincerely grateful for about your rich and abundant life.
It will make you a more positive person immediately. One more tip. Create
intentional upgrades. This is easiest to do if you start with that positive
evaluation when you're grateful for what you have.
It creates an energy that you get to take to the creation game. How you doing
next week? You don't know. You don't know. You've got something to do with it.
Please don't forget that. But you don't know exactly how you're going to be doing
next week. If you can put yourself in a position to be grateful for what you've
got, then we move to that next step which is to create intentional upgrades. Try
this. Think for just a minute about what you could do today to make sure that
your life is better in the next hour. I don't even know what you've got planned
for the next hour. Maybe you're going to stay here and watch these videos for the
next hour. Maybe you're going to go serve someone in the next hour. Maybe you're
going to work, maybe you're going to bed. I don't know what you're going to do in the
next hour. Could you do something intentionally to improve your life in
the next hour? Yes you could. This takes a little bit of work to get to but when
you think just a little bit more than you're used to about how can I upgrade
my life intentionally in the next hour, it's a beautiful way to become more
positive on purpose immediately. And at the end of the hour, your life is just a
little, if not, a lot better because of a choice that you made to intentionally
upgrade your life. These strategies that I shared with you today are very simple.
Simple and easy aren't the same thing. You already know that. I'm here to help
you with that. Go to positivitypowerup.com. Positivitypowerup.com where
you'll get some resources for some personal coaching
to help you get there. I'll see you again tomorrow.
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