How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life pdfdrive com

HOW TO FEEL THE ENERGY OFPOSSIBILITY THINKING
If you are a naturally positive person who already embraces possibility
thinking, then you’re already tracking with me. However, some people, rather
than being optimistic, are naturally negative or cynical. They believe that
possibility thinkers are naïve or foolish. If your thinking runs toward pessimism,
let me ask you a question: how many highly successful people do you know who
are continually negative? How many impossibility thinkers are you acquainted
with who achieve big things? None!
People with an it-can’t-be-done mindset have two choices. They can expect
the worst and continually experience it; or they can change their thinking. That’s
what George Lucas did. Believe it or not, even though he is a possibility thinker,
he is not a naturally positive person. He says, “I’m very cynical, and as a result, I
think the defense I have against it is to be optimistic.” 
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In other words, he
chooses to think positively. He sums it up this way: “As corny as it sounds, the
power of positive thinking goes a long way. So determination and positive
thinking combined with talent combined with knowing your craft… that may
sound like a naïve point of view, but at the same time it’s worked for me and it’s
worked for all my friends—so I have come to believe it.” 
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If you want possibility thinking to work for you, then begin by following these
suggestions:

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1. Stop Focusing on the Impossibilities
The first step in becoming a possibility thinker is to stop yourself from
searching for and dwelling on what’s wrong with any given situation. Sports
psychologist Bob Rotella recounts, “I tell people: If you don’t want to get into
positive thinking, that’s OK. Just eliminate all the negative thoughts from your
mind, and whatever’s left will be fine.”
If possibility thinking is new to you, you’re going to have to give yourself a
lot of coaching to eliminate some of the negative self-talk you may hear in your
head. When you automatically start listing all the things that can go wrong or all
the reasons something can’t be done, stop yourself and say, “Don’t go there.”
Then ask, “What’s right about this?” That will help to get you started. And if
negativity is a really big problem for you and pessimistic things come out of
your mouth before you’ve even thought them through, you may need to enlist
the aid of a friend or family member to alert you every time you utter negative
ideas.

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