Tips & Suggestions for Developing a Positive Mindset

“You can Complain because ROSES have THORNS, or you can Rejoice because THORNS have
ROSES”

Take two people. They can even be a set of twins born of the same parents, with similar
backgrounds, experience, and education. Give them both the same set of tools. Let's say you
give them both a shiny new hammer, a box of nails, and a few planks of wood. What will you
discover?

One will do well. The other may not. One may build a Showcase. The other may not build
anything at all, saying, "I'm not a carpenter." One may build Furniture and go into business. The
other may build a stool and sit on it. Again, what's the difference?

The key is in the person, not in the tools!

In short, the person who does well has an inner set of beliefs --- a mindset, if you will --- that
will help them achieve anything they want no matter what tools they are handed. And that's
what the successful people today have: A millionaire's mindset. An inner wiring that directs
them, almost automatically, to be successful and achieve their dreams.

Make these 25 Positive Attitude builders daily habits and your world will just seem more
"ROSY"!
1. Look in the Mirror and say “I LOVE YOU” to yourself 3 times a daily.
2. Keep Smiling.
3. Look directly into other person’s eye.
4. Be like a child i.e. Free of Fear, Conditioning, Beliefs and Past Experiences. (Not Childish).
5. Surround yourself with positive people in your life. If you are around negative people you
can't help but to be negative, too. Birds of a feather flock together. Remove yourself from
negative people. At every place and occasion, look for positive people to associate with.
6. Choose positive thinking friends.
7. In every training, look for one more interesting idea.
8. In every chapter, find one more concept important to you.
9. With every friend, explain a new idea you've just learned.
10. With every teacher, ask a question.
11. With yourself, keep a list of your goals, positive thoughts and actions.

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12. Find Opportunities in every Problem you face. See them as Challenges, Growth.
13. Believe that you can accomplish anything in your life and you have the reliance to go after it
to get it.
14. Take a stock of your Strengths and Weaknesses and convert them into Opportunities.
15. Reflect honestly on your Weaknesses and have a follow through.
16. Do not take un-justified criticism.
17. Say "I Can" more than "I can't".
18. Say, "I want to spend my energies on a solution and not stay stuck on the problem. “
19. Say “If I CHOOSE to go directly to problem-solving, I choose NOT to complain, whine, or
blame."
20. Expect good things to happen.
21. Stop worrying/ Start enjoying.
22. Look for the good in others.
23. Live a healthy lifestyle.
24. Picture yourself a WINNER! Visualize your Dreams.
25. Focus on your best qualities and give yourself a pat on the back!

We are either the masters or the victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who
we are today is mostly a result of the choices made yesterday - tomorrow we will become what
we choose today. Will you look past the roses and see only the thorns (negative), or will you
choose to enjoy the roses in spite of the thorns (positive)?  Developing a Positive Mindset takes
practice until it becomes a habit and then part of one's character.

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us."

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 Inspirational “Quotes” for Developing a Positive Mindset

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we
recommend it daily."

“Whatever a mind of a person can conceive and believe it can achieve.”

“Everything happens twice, first it happens in our mind then it happens in reality.”

“Our mind is like a garden, and we are the gardener, whatever seeds we sow are the fruits that
we will reap”

“Making a mistake is the only way to learn which way is wrong or right”

“Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who have Positive
Mindset. Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in
disguise.”

“You can profit from disappointment – if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction.”

“You are what you think you are.”

“I’m a born champion – I can change the World by Changing Myself.”

“You are a Mind with a Body”

“The litter difference between Success and Failure is often SOMETHING-MORE.”

You’ve have got a Problem? “That’s GOOD NEWS”

“Most of the process of seeing is no done by the eyes at all”

The greatest secret of getting things done is, “DO IT NOW”

“Your thought is Energy in Motion”. Once the thought is out, whether POSITIVE or NEGATIVE,
the potential of it manifesting increases.

You can choose to be “Patiently Persistent”

“Negative thoughts will develop into negative action”

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What
you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself."

"We must either find a way, or make one."

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not
refuse to do the something I can do."

"We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

"Follow your dream...take one step at a time and don't settle for less, just continue to climb."

"Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter 1. We have yet to
write the book."

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for
us."

"God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be
felt with the heart."

"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."

"The only devils in the world are those running round in our own hearts, and that is where all
our battles ought to be fought."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

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"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it
forever."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"Meditation is the serious intention of the mind whereby we come to search out the truth, and
settle it effectively upon the heart."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something
inside them was superior to circumstance."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look
fear in the face…. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner
or later, with astounding accuracy."

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is
a thing to be achieved."

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find
them."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

“A journey of thousand miles begins with the first single step.”

“Do the things you fear and the fear will disappear.”

Inspirational Quotes Collected by: Shabbar Suterwala (Counsellor and Personal Growth Trainer)
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