INFLUENCE OF POSITIVE THINKING ‘Arun Bandodkar ‘Arun Bandadkar, isa human resources trainer with 15 years experience Currently he is the training manager of HRD Dept. of ETA Star Group and "Trainer and Consultant’ for Dubai institute Of Business Management. EE is amazing. And saddening too. Most people cruise through life without even, realizing their true potential. As if this was not enough, an individual accumulates a lot of avoidable mental baggage about numerous things he or she cannot do or achieve eg. presuming that others are better gifted, has a better background, so on.and so forth. Finally, one ends up with a negative mindset. But the truth is, there is a gold mine of strengths within you, waiting to be extracted. The key to success in life is your attitude. You are what you think you are. Your mind is an unbroken stream of thoughts; both negative and positive. It is for you to decide the flow of these thoughts. Thinking is unique only to human beings- to conceive impossible alternatives and to be able to juggle them around. This can either make or break our lives. The way we look at our life makes a whole lot of difference. This is called attitude. Thinking leads to attitude Attitude is an imaginary build up of thoughts based on which will depend the quality and direction of your thought process. This is the window through which you interact with the outside world. In short, our world is determined by our thoughts. If you are thinking of success, your activities will be success oriented, ifyou are thinking of failure, you have in short, decided to fail. Icis very important to understand and accept that you are what you think you are, because of your thoughts, Your thoughts have tremendous impact on your performance. To be successful in life, you have to effectively comprehend the working of the mind. It is more important to focus on the lens through which you are looking at life rather than life itself. Life is the same for all of us. Then what is it that makes the difference? The answer lies in the way we perceive things. Your attitude will thereby determine the quantum of failure or success you will achieve. Positive thinking creates positive things ‘Thinking positively at all times under any circumstance is called positive thinking. Positive thinking is a great deciding factor ‘even in crisis management. It is of extreme importance to think in the positive direction amidst trials and tribulations. A positive thinker is capable of not only facing challenges of any kind but has double the chance of overcoming them when compared to a negative thinker. The negative thinking will certainly lead nowhere.‘There are various means to ensure that your thought processes are going the right way. Remind yourself about the goals that you have set out to achieve. Your thoughts must be full of hope and expectation. Thinking positively must become a matter of habic; a way of life. Make a conscious effort to think positively. Thinkingrelentlesslyaboutyourfuture goals will keep your mind engrossed in positive thoughts. Recalling happier moments of life is another way of keeping the flow positive. Memories of past achievements and moments of unprecedented joy will ignite positive ‘thoughts. Circumstances can be viewed both positively and negatively. Outcome of any condition will be determined by the direction taken by your mind. Positive outcome is assured if the thought behind your actions are positive and negative if your actions are directed by negative thoughts. Instead of giving in to negative thoughts, weed out misconceptions and irrational thinking and then challenge these thoughts with rational, If you are thinking of success, your activities will be success oriented, if you are thinking of failure, you have in short, decided to fail. positive ones. When you do this, your optimism will gradually become realistic and sel€-affiming. Positive thinking gives way to negative thinking ‘A negative thought process. simply means that your own lack of insight & information and misshapen ideas have overpowered your ability to think logically & rationally. The mind methods by which your thoughts automatically become negative. Filtering out all the encouraging experiences, self blame, catastrophizing, polarizing are some of the many means by which your thoughts become negative in spite of the situation being upbeat. uses various You have to make a solid foundation to ensure that the positive thinking ‘works for long and in a permanent manner. Find out the root cause of your negative thoughts and weed them out completely. All thoughts are based on strong beliefs. Find out which belief is making you think negatively. Check up how often your mind travels along those lines. Replace these negative thoughts with powerful positive ones. A positive thinker will look at opportunities in every problem and the negative thinker will search for problems in every opportunity. It is hence imperative, that you're thought processes need to be channeled in a positive direction on a continuous and permanent fashion. Attitude will develop self- confidence Positive thoughts will build sclf- confidence. Focusing on the brighter side of life will make you a possibility thinker; one who is able to find various possibilities in any situation. Knowledge of available options will result in a boost of self confidence which in tum increases competence. Your competence is based more on your confidence than your actual ability. Attitudes are based on beliefs How are attiuudes formed? What are the factors responsible for your attitudes? You are not born with any specific attitude. You have yourself built them over a period of time. Our attitudes are created and based on our, beliefs. To have a positive attitude in life it is crucial that you focus on building positive and strong beliefs. All your thoughts are in your control You have absolute control on every thing in life. Your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your decisions and every thing in life are in your control. You have the ability to choose what you want. You can choose to think either positively or negatively, Positive thoughts will produce positive and productive things. Success and failure ‘in life is hence a matter of your choice. Your thoughts will decide your destiny and you will decide what your thoughts will be.