How To Block Negative Thoughts In 3 Simple Steps

Knowing how to block negative thoughts is very important. Not only does it keep us from having bad days; but it also helps us attract more success, happiness and fulfillment in life.

After all, it is no secret that success and positive thoughts go hand in hand. If you can’t go on dwelling on the positive side of life all the time, you have to at least start learning how to block negative thoughts. Read on to find out more.

Step 1: Visualize Doors Opening.

Whenever you feel bad, close your eyes and imagine a door or a gate opening. This door represents opportunities for growth in your career, personal life and whatever it is you want to ask for.

Open doors also give you hope; it pushes you to take one more leap towards a happy and beautiful life.

You can also imagine a golden ray of light enveloping you. Think of this light as a strength-booster. Whenever you feel yourself losing your will power, think of this bright light and you will feel invigorated.

Step 2: Sing Happy Songs.

If you want to know how to block negative thoughts, then why don’t you stop listening to those sad and angry songs all the time? True, the melody might be catchy; but listening to such dreary songs could have a negative effect on your subconscious.

When you sing songs that talk of cheating, splitting up or basically having the worst day of anyone’s life, then you are subconsciously bringing all those negative elements into your life as well.

If you’re going to sing, choose songs that are filled with happiness and empowerment.

Step 3: Put A Smile On Your Face.

Sometimes, a smile is all it takes to break up those negative thoughts. When you’re feeling particularly down, lift the corners of your lips and smile. Laugh; find something funny out of everyday situations. Your thoughts will soon follow suit.

Can't find anything to laugh about? Go to youtube or other video sharing sites. There you'll find lots of comedy videos and bloopers that can make you laugh your heart out.

Of course, knowing how to block negative thoughts can take a bit of time; but the more you keep doing it, the better you’ll be at chasing those ugly thoughts away.

When people know how to block negative thoughts, they have the entire world in their hands. They grab hold and make the most of the opportunities presented to them.

These individuals don’t have to endure any sort of maltreatment from other people and they certainly won’t have to dish out the same bad attitude to others. Positive-minded people are always happy. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

Knowing how to block negative thoughts not only keeps us from having bad days; but it also helps us attract more success, happiness and fulfillment in life. Read this article to find out how.

By: Michael Lee

How to elevate your confidence

Many people aren’t aware of the fact that their thinking patterns are the main reason behind their lack of self confidence.
If a confident person and a person who lacks confidence exchanged their beliefs about themselves but kept their way of thinking intact then soon the confident person will become confident again after getting rid of the negative beliefs he acquired and the person who used to lack self confidence will soon lose his newly acquired self confidence.
Because of these facts its extremely important that you learn how to become like a confident person in order to become really confident after some time.
It doesn’t matter where you start from as long as you are thinking like a confident because sooner or later you will become confident.

So how to think like a confident person?

Here are five ways to think like a confident person:
1) They always keep praising themselves during their self talk: a confident person doesn’t always think positively but he also keeps reminding himself how good he is whenever he does something good. A confident person is never very critical or harsh on himself and that’s why he always manages to keeps his self confidence intact.

2) They perfectly understand that they are dealing with human beings: people who have a low self esteem always believe that they are surrounded by flawless super heroes who are better, smarter and more worthy than them and as a result their low self esteem goes even lower. Confident people on the other hand know that each and every human being who lives on this planet has self doubts and that’s why they feel comfortable around everybody without exception.

3) They understand that failure is a part of success: people who have a high self esteem never feel bad whenever they fail but on the contrary they understand that failure is a channel that provides them with the feedback they need in order to succeed in the next attempt. People who lack confidence on the other hand dread making mistakes and in many cases they never attempt to try something new not to make any mistake.
4) They know that good people get rejected: many people lose their self confidence after they get rejected once or twice. Confident people on the other hand understand that even good people get rejected and that’s why they never feel bad when someone rejects them. If you think that being rejected makes you a less worthy person then you will have a yoyo like self confidence, when people praise you then you will feel good and when one or two of them reject you then you will feel totally worthless.

5) They know their strengths and weaknesses: when a person becomes fully aware of his strengths and his weaknesses self doubts never affect him the way they affect others who are clueless about their good qualities. If you are sure that you are intelligent then any negative comment about your intelligence or mind wont affect you at all but if you were not sure of yourself then such a comment would have hurt you so much.

By: M.Farouk Radwan

How Did You Get Where You Are Today?

What you do today inevitably affects what happens in your tomorrow, although at the time you can have little idea of the extent of that impact. We spend much of our lives planning for our future, imagining what we would like to achieve and hoping that we attain our goals and live our dreams.


I spent a very happy day with friends yesterday golfing at the Presidio in San Francisco. As we travelled home, one friend asked "When you were a child, growing up in Ireland, did you ever imagine that you would be driving along this road today with three Asian ladies in a car, on the way back from golf?" No, not in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to be where I am today! But I am truly blessed to be where I am today.


My friend has lived in many different parts of the World, and she commented on the various times she would suddenly ask herself how she got to be where she was. She would look around at her friends in Japan and ask herself how she got there from California, or how she ended up in New York, or in London.


The further afield one moves from home the more dramatically you notice the differences. My friends question coincided with a message sent to me via Facebook from a girl I went to school with in 1972 and had not seen since 1979. She sent an old school photograph, showing thirty-two little girls and boys aged from four to fourteen. This was the entire school, not just one class. The school had just two rooms, one teacher and an assistant.


How did I get from a remote and beautiful spot in Southern Ireland to San Francisco and Silicone Valley? The chain of events is far too detailed to even begin to write the steps down. In fact, I'm sure that I would overlook the impact of some key events, even if I tried to carefully identify each and every twist and turn.


The fact is that every little thing that you experience, or that you are exposed to, has the power to impact greatly upon your tomorrow. Each person you meet, each song you hear, each decision you make shapes your future reality. Not only that, World events, or the norms of society also have a huge bearing.


How tall you are will have great impact upon whether or not you have the potential to be an Olympic swimmer or professional basketball player. Your parent's style of parenting will have a huge influence upon your dedication to schoolwork, specific favored subjects, how interested you are in sports or music and how you make friends and socialize.


These are just a few examples of how events from yesterday create the today in which we live. Each event or happening is likely to predispose us to make choices one way or another. But this still does not mean that we will make the most likely choice. We still have the ability to choose unlikely and unusual routes through life.


If you are unhappy where you are it is important to look closely at how you got there so as to be able to understand what changes you will have to make so as to make tomorrow better. The most essential factor which liberates a person and enables positive change is to grasp the fact that no matter what has happened in your life, no matter what circumstances are presented to you, you do have the power to make choices which will change your future experiences.


The biggest obstacle to positive change is when one thinks that they cannot change or that they are powerless to change their reality. If you think that you are stuck, then you will remain stuck. If you instead accept that you have felt stuck up until now but anything can happen from now on, then anything can indeed happen.
By: Roseanna Leaton

People Do Not Leave the Company

“I disliked working with those people so much that I don’t even know if I hate doing this for a living or it was just those people at THAT place.” - Anonymous

Unfortunately this quote or versions of this quote are not unique to any specific individual. Isn’t that sad? I have heard it on more than on occasion.

You have probably heard the expression, ‘people do not leave companies, people leave people.’ Well it is true. Think about some of the jobs you have left. Your decision to leave may have been based on the fact that you were stuck working for someone who you just could not tolerate.

Now, imagine what it feels like to work someplace where you don’t fit in with the culture? Imagine going to work every day and you feel like a complete outsider. Maybe everyone at the company has lived in the area for a long time. Maybe everyone in the company goes to the same church or has the same ethnic background. Of course there is nothing wrong with that, assuming people who come in from the outside are not made to feel like well, uh gee, I guess the word is OUTSIDERS.

It is a two way street. A new person joining a group needs to take time to get to know the group. And certainly you don’t want to jump to any conclusions about that group. In turn, when you belong to a group who has been together for a long time OR shares lots of commonality, be sure to be open and inclusive to your new team members.

Not every company culture is right for every person, but let’s allow room for variety and that over used buzz word ‘diversity’. And if someone does decide to leave, let’s hope that we aren’t a miserable memory to them.

Let’s hear it for reaching a hand out to the new team member!

“I disliked working with those people so much that I don’t even know if I hate doing this for a living or it was just those people at THAT place.” - Anonymous You have probably heard the expression, ‘people do not leave companies, people leave people.’ Well it is true. Think about some of the jobs you have left. Your decision to leave may have been based on the fact that you were stuck working for someone who you just could not tolerate.

by Margaret Meloni

Questions all managers must ask

Asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of a manager's job, but one that most managers rarely think about, says Harvard Business Review.

"Asking the right questions is an essential skill of a great boss. Yet many fail to inquire enough. Here are three types of questions you should be asking:

1. Questions about yourself. Good managers ask themselves and others about what they could do better. Ask in a way that invites constructive, candid responses.

2. Questions about plans and projects. These should both advance the work and develop the people. Tough and direct questions are ok, as long as they are in the interest of progress.

3. Questions about the organization. Look for ways that the organization can function more effectively by questioning practices, processes, and structures. Ask: Why do we do things this way? Is there a better approach?"

- Today's management tip was adapted from "The Art of Asking Questions" by Ron Ashkenas. - Reuters