Changing Your Thoughts For Optimism

The biggest challenge with making the transition to optimism is the changing of your current thoughts. You need to have unwavering belief in your ability to change your thoughts if you want to be successful. There are plenty of examples of people that have changed their thinking to be more optimistic in their life. You can do it too.

 

Deal with your Self-Talk

 

You will have self-talk going on in your head most of the time. Self-talk can be both positive and negative and it is the way that you deal with negative self-talk that is the most important factor. If you are not able to challenge any negative self-talk then you will never be an optimist.

 

Even when you start to become more optimistic, negative self-talk is still likely to happen. If you let this linger then it will result in a negative thinking spiral. You can neutralize any negative self-talk with positive self-talk.

 

Reframe Negatives into Positives

 

We have a tendency to focus more on negative thoughts than we do positive ones. This is something that you can and must change if you want to be an optimist. Every time that you experience a negative thought then you must neutralize it with a positive one.

 

Let’s say that you experience a negative thought like “I can’t do this”. The best way to do with this is to think “I can do anything”. You will need to be persistent with your neutralizing from negative to positive. After a while you will experience far fewer negative thoughts.

 

You need to move away from your Comfort Zone

 

One of the main reasons that there are so many pessimists is because they do not want to venture outside of their comfort zone. Optimists are happy to move away from their comfort zones because they see this as a way to grow as an individual.

 

An optimist is always willing to do things that they have never done before, whereas a pessimist will run away from new challenges. Look to break out of your comfort zone by doing as many new things as you can.

 

Identify what you want and Focus on it

 

A pessimist has no idea what they really want from their life. As a result, they are controlled by life and just drift along aimlessly. If you want to be an optimist then you need to take the time and effort to identify what you want and then focus your attention on this.

 

Most people have no clue what they want because it takes effort to think about this. It is much easier to sit in front of the TV watching meaningless junk or while away the hours doing pointless things on social media. You need to commit to finding out what you want and setting goals to achieve this.

 

Identify and Eradicate your Limiting Beliefs

 

The reason that you are not an optimist right now is because you probably have a number of limiting beliefs that are holding you back in life. Most of these limiting beliefs probably started when you were a child so they are not going to be easy to eradicate. But eradicate them you must.

 

One of the most effective ways to eradicate limiting beliefs is to use neuro linguistic programming (NLP). There are specific techniques designed to replace limiting beliefs with empowering ones that will make you more optimistic.