The art of living well is to
develop positive life attitudes for positive living. To live well for the rest
of your life, you need to know how to develop your positive life
attitudes.
An attitude is no more than a
thought powered by words and images. In life, every thought counts because your
whole being is composed of thoughts. Research studies have indicated the
importance of mind power: thoughts can even turn on or turn off a particular
gene responsible for a particular disease or disorder; that is to say, your
thoughts impact your health, and everything else in your life.
The art of living well is to
utilize mind power to develop positive life attitudes for positive living. The
key to dynamic living is having positive life attitudes, which can bring about
physical and mental transformation, as well as emotional and spiritual
unfolding.
There are seven positive life
attitudes in the art of living well:
(1) Develop a positive
attitude of change. Do not resist change because everything in life is
changing. You cannot stay exactly where you are, even though it may be your
comfort zone. Nothing is set in stone; life offers only few absolutes. A change
may be positive or negative. The key to the art of living well is to embrace
any change as it comes along, instead of resisting it.
.(2) Develop a positive attitude
of imitating the habits and behaviors of role models. Choose the ones you
admire, and learn from them.
(3) Develop a positive attitude of
seeing your future self in your mind’s eye. A picture is worth a thousand
words. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. Harness the power of
visualization to make it more “real” to you., and this gives you incentive to
pursue your life goals.
(4) Develop a positive attitude of
being in control. A positive attitude stems from an internal focus of control,
which means you always act instead of reacting, and you are always the master
of a situation, instead of the victim.
(5) Develop a positive attitude of
doing the best you can do, and leaving the rest to God. A positive attitude
focuses on the process and not the outcome of any endeavor you are undertaking.
(6) Develop a positive attitude of
passion—passion for life, and enthusiasm for whatever you do, however
insignificant it may seem. If you choose to do anything, however insignificant
it may be, you do it well. Just as Martin
Luther King Jr. once said: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all
the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well.’”
(7) Develop a positive attitude of
choice. Life is full of choices in matters of work, relationships, or how you
feel about yourself. You cannot control what people do to you or the
circumstances you may find yourself in, but you can choose to react differently
or to have different perspectives.
Developing positive life attitudes
holds the key to the art of living well.
Instant Positive Attitude gives
you strategies to adjust your attitude for massive success in life.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© Stephen Lau
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