Positive Attitude Tips:
Get Rid of Unproductive Thoughts

These positive attitude tips help us get and keep daily motivation and are empowering because they remind us that we're in charge of our focus.

We can’t change everything in our lives immediately. And, darn it, we can’t make other people change. But we can change our focus and mood and as you'll see here, create great outcomes - as we get rid of unproductive thoughts.

Positive attitude tips are not about judging how you feel, because it’s okay to be in whatever mood you’re in...

It’s good to know how you’re feeling. But it’s also good to know you’re in charge of your mood and that you CAN shift it.

Every shift in mood, however slight, moves us closer to the life we envision and to answers to every challenge we’re facing. Shifting our mood moves us out of the problem so we can see solutions.

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." ---Albert Einstein

The Best Positive Attitude Tips: Decide to Push or Pull

I’ll share an example here of these positive attitude tips work, by showing how we can shift unproductive thoughts.

They work on anything, but the example I'll share is from something real, it's what happened one day when I found that my jeans were too tight.

Defining: PUSH (MOTIVATED FROM THE OUTSIDE) ACTION
To beat the drum around what’s wrong,
staying negatively focused.

The self-talk in this PUSH mode sounds like:

"I can’t believe my pants don’t fit. I can’t believe I am so slack? I hate this. I'm so mad at myself for getting this way. Damn I know better.”

Things that tend to happen from this PUSH (frustrated/aggravated) mental and emotional place:

I trip and drop a dumbbell on my toe in the gym. I twist my ankle on the step. When I try to make healthy meals I feel overwhelmed.

It seems hard and I’m irritated. I can’t find the healthy stuff I have on my grocery list and oh, those cheetos’s are calling me. Damn this is hard.

The PUSH (aggravated, frustrated) mind loop keeps me stuck. These PUSH / unproductive thoughts make action feel hard, forced and difficult. I'm trying to make my self do something from a negative mindset.

Defining: PULL (INSPIRED FROM THE INSIDE) ACTION:
To acknowledge how I feel and then decide to try to move
my focus toward something that feels a little better,
to try to find some relief, knowing that this gives me
access to my Guidance and inspired action.

The self-talk in this PULL positive attitude tip and mode sounds like:

"I can’t believe my pants don’t fit.

Okay, I know I don’t like this but I do know that I can do something about this. I do know that I can decide to do some things differently.

If being thin and fit was easy, everyone would be thin and fit. And everyone’s not thin and fit. But I do know that I really do want to be thinner and more fit again."

As I begin focusing on what I want, using the PULL part of these positive attitude tips, positive thought momentum builds...

"I have the resources and I have the ability and I have all sorts of support from my fitness videos and magazines.

I just need to change some things, and I can do that, and I know I’ll see progress. There have been many other people who’ve been in this place and they made progress and met their goals and they’re not any different from me.

I can do this. For now I’ll put these pants away and out of sight and I’ll find something I can put on to feel better just for right now."

The PULL-part for these positive attitude tips leads to feelings of empowerment...and the momentum continues to build...

"There are style-things I can do that will make me look and feel a little thinner, until I truly am.

And I know at some point, I’ll be in those pants again. But for now I’m going focus on feeling a little okay where I stand and I’m going to step-by-step make new decisions and before I know it I believe I’ll be where I want to be.

I am in charge of this stuff and I am a good, capable person. I can manage this, I can do this, I have all sorts of resources, I can do this.”

Things that happen from this positive attitude tips PULL (giving myself the benefit of the doubt) mental and emotional place:

I'm inspired to positive action:

I find my Body for Life cookbook. I forgot about how easy those meals are. I get excited and I feel hopeful about how easy it will be to make some changes in what I'm eating.

I’m at the bookstore and I see the new Body for Life book with all of the new success stories, I get inspired when I read about all the successes and transformations.

I visit an online fitness forum and read stuff that inspires me – I like re-connecting with fit and healthy-focused people. I pick out the workouts from the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book and I feel inspired to do them.

I find my Cardio Coach workouts that I'd also forgotten about. Gosh they feel good too. And when it gets too hard, 'cause I haven't been doing cardio much lately, I just march in place, knowing that I’ll get there, yea, I'll get there...

I feel proud and inspired by my accomplishments in my workout and I re-live the workout in my mind throughout the day, I did good work. I'm on my way.

I’m inspired to fill up my water jug and drink more water and I can feel how that it's squelching my hunger and regulating my body.

Later that week, cause I know that eating healthy is important, I go to my pantry and easily move things around so that the healthy stuff is more prevalent, and I toss the junk.

Using these positive attitude tips of the PULL mindset, I'm making change and feeling good. I know that changes are coming and I believe I am on track.

Shifting your mood is the name of the game.

If you want to be all that can be, if you want to Wake Up Eager you need to embrace your feelings and then decide to be in charge of them.

These are the best positive attitude tips because it works - I know, I use them every day:

Embrace how you feel, then honestly and softly move yourself to a new mental and emotional place, step by step. In this softer, less negative place, PULL mindset you get closer Source, Guidance and Our Universal Dream Team.

These positive attitude tips sound simple, but its not always easy to do.

Especially if you've gotten on a ‘rant’ around what’s wrong.

I know that sometimes I can really get on a roll, really PUSHING.

The problem with PUSHING (even though everyone around you may agree with your negative 'rant') it keeps you away from Answers and Inspired Action. Ranting and pushing keeps us stuck.

So instead of continually and mentally beating the drum about what’s wrong (PUSHING)...choose this positive attitude tip: lighten up and appreciate what’s right. To choose to PULL more.

It can feel hard going at first, but if you stick with it you will start to find and feel relief and feeling a little lighter. Ideas and clarity about what to do next, comes. And it keeps on building. Nice to know.

Push or pull, YOU get to decide.

"Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have that choice in every moment " --- Abraham-Hicks

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