Getting a Positive Attitude Made Easy

#1- for the next 24 HRS, deliberately speak hopefully about everything, about your job, about your health, about your future. Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything. This will be difficult, for possibly it is your habit to talk pessimistically. From this negative habit you must restrain yourself even if it requires an act of will.

#2- after speaking hopefully for 24 HRS, continue the practice for one week, then you can be permitted to being “realistic” for a day or two. You will discover that what you meant by “realistic” a week ago was actually pessimistic, but what you now mean by “realistic” is something entirely different; it is the dawning of the positive outlook. When most people say they are being “realistic” they delude themselves: there simply being negative.

#3- you must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must eat if nourishing, whole some thoughts. Therefore, today start to shift your mind from negative to positive thinking. Start at the beginning of the New Testament and underscore every sentence about faith. Continue doing this until you have marked every such passage in the books Matthew, mark, Luke, and john.

#4- then commit the underscored passages to memory. Commit one each day until you can recite the entire list from memory. This will take time, but remember you have consumed much more time becoming a negative thinker than this will require. Effort and time will be needed to unlearn your negative pattern.

#5- make a list of your friends to determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. Do not abandon your negative friends, but get closer to those with a positive point of view for a while, until you have absorbed their spirit, then you can go back among your negative friends and give them your newly acquired thought pattern without taking on their negativism.

#6- avoid argument, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

#7- pray a great deal and always let your prayer take the form of thanksgiving on the assumption that god is giving you all great and wonderful things; for if you think he is, he surely is. God will not give you any greater blessing then you can believe in.