Achieving your Dreams - Replacing Negativity with Positivity
If you’ve got it in your head that you’re better off in your comfort zone, then you’re never going to accomplish your goals in life. Your dreams lie way outside your comfort zone.
If you let your negativity, get in the way, then guess where you’re going to be for as long as you live? That’s right. You’ll be stuck in your comfort zone. You’ll feel sorry for yourself, and you’ll resent everyone who’s ever dared to do things you know you’ll never do.
You’re going to get trapped in a vicious cycle of negativity. And you know what that’s going to get you? Nothing.
So, before your negativity consumes you, here are some important pointers you need to follow so you can see the light at the end of your comfort zone.
Focus on what really matters
You’ve got a goal in mind. You’ve created a solid plan so you can achieve that goal. But it’s so easy to lose sight of all that when you’re faced with so many obstacles, and your comfort zone looks so inviting.
Before you totally close the door on your dreams, you need to remind yourself what really matters to you. Why did you choose that particular goal?
If you’ve created a journal for your journey, then you can simply look up your entries or notes from when you started. You would have written down your hopes and dreams, and more importantly, your ‘why.’
Your ‘why’ is what you need to focus on. It’s the reason you’re doing what you’re doing. It’s why you’re taking huge risks and facing all these difficult challenges head-on. Don’t let all these obstacles stop you.
Remember your ‘why,’ and you’ll remember all the hopeful, positive thoughts you’ve had at the beginning of your journey. It will motivate you and give you a good kick in your pants.
There’s no limit to what you can do
Negative thinkers are severely limited by their negativity. They’ll find it hard to do something good or anything noteworthy at all because their negativity is going to pull them down.
Even if they had the skills and the talent to go after their dreams, they’re not going to use it to their advantage. Nope, their defeatist attitude is going to pull the plug on their dreams.
You, on the other hand, is a different story. You know that outside your comfort zone, you won’t have those restrictive walls. You know that by leaving your comfort zone, you can easily uncover your true potential. When you think positively, you’ll be able to see all the opportunities hiding in plain sight!
Look forward to your failures
Your failures will literally show you what you need to do so you can succeed – this is what a positive person would say. However, negative thinkers will throw shade at you if you give them that advice. They’ll say you’re never ever going to succeed; your failures are proof of that. Don’t believe them for a moment.
Ask any successful person if they had a smooth journey towards their success, or if they didn’t suffer any hiccups or failures on the way to the top. To be honest, they’ll probably laugh in your face.
And they’ll proceed to tell you about all the many mistakes they made, the failures, the countless nights they spent trying to understand what their failures are telling them. Then they’ll tell you that without going through failure, they wouldn’t be where they are today.
Failure has gotten such a bad rap, but it’s not really all that bad. Think about it: when you fail at something, it shows you what you can’t and shouldn’t be doing next time.
The more failures you have, the closer you will be to your goals. You’re just eliminating all the reasons your plan could fail. You’ll eventually find the right combination, the right process, the right system that will lead you to success!
Be excited about the future
Negative people have nothing to be excited about. They’re not going to look forward to what the future will bring them. They’ll look for the negatives even if there is none to be found. They’ll be suspicious of anything that falls outside of their comfort zone. They’ll be the naysayers; they’ll predict doom and gloom for everyone.
You wouldn’t want to be with that kind of people now, would you? If you do, then you won’t be looking forward to your future too. You won’t be looking forward to the time when you’ll finally get to achieve what you’ve been waiting for all this time.
When you think positively, you’ll still be aware of the dark clouds on the horizon. You’re not going to be delusional that everything’s going to be bright, colorful, and perfect when you know it rarely is in real life. However, instead of homing in on the negative stuff, you’ll focus on the positives, and you’ll look forward to your future.
