by Matthew Flinton

Has anyone ever told you to think positive?

I bet they have.

This is great advice for anyone who may be discouraged or just plain depressed. As you may already know… your mindset will determine how you feel and also how you view the world.

Now… positive thinking is a good habit to strengthen though when you change from positive thinking to positive knowing… the Universe is yours! You move from a position of hoping to a position of knowing. You allow your faith to work miracles once you embrace this paradigm shift.

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Ah, the good old “Vulcan nerve pinch”, the three-fingered salute, the one-handed solution to many backhanded aggravations. How simple, how effective, how instantaneously gratifying to the mind behind the mouse. Wouldn’t it be great if we could take the lessons learned from this simple three-point process into our lives and install them into our own hotkey set-up to help us deal with life’s little blue screens of death? Well, we can, provided we are willing to use a little creativity, allow ourselves some literary leeway and don’t mind stretching an already strained metaphor until it squeals for mercy. Shall we begin?

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by Daniel Herzner

By nature, human beings are impatient. We want good things to show up in our lives and we want them to show up now. Let’s face it, we live in a microwave society – we don’t want to wait around for anything.

When it takes longer than expected for goodness to materialize, frustration sets in.

For example, if you’ve ever placed second in a contest, are you the type of person to throw in the towel and not try again? Or, would you be proud of a respectable showing and use the experience to push for better results the next time?

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If you’ve ever found yourself expecting the worst without clear reasons why, you were probably the victim of a negative-thinking habit.  Rampant pessimism can be annoying at the least and chronically destructive at worst.  It can take over your mood, mind-set, career, relationships – and life in general – making it impossible to hope for anything good.

The good news is that pessimism for most people is nothing more than a habit – a habit that can be broken with a little conscious effort.

Below you’ll find 3 simple suggestions for turning pessimism into optimism:

Challenge the doom predictions.

When your mind is ruled by a pessimistic outlook, you automatically imagine the worst possible outcome and hold it as your expectation.  Even worse, you usually have no “evidence” to support your belief that things will go wrong, you are just choosing to think they will. Read more »