Arrange Your Thoughts to Work for You: 8 Helpful Hints
Posted: Monday, July 06, 2009
by K Soash
Writing For You Now
Your thoughts can wreak havoc in your daily life, but realistically, only if you let them. You can actually take hold of those thoughts and put them in their place. Here are a few hints on how you can arrange those thoughts yourself. Eight Helpful Hints to Arrange Your Thoughts to Work for You:
1. Avoid negative statements: Avoid using negative statements about yourself, for some reason they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies. Negative self-fulfilling prophecies are some things you don't need in your already stress filled life.
3. Avoid "should've, could've, and would've" statements: When using statements like, "I should've done this or that", or even saying "I could've said this or that", you just reinforce the past situation with regret. The past is ‘said and done' and you move forward.
4. Look for the positive side of things: Everything in life has two sides, a positive and a negative. Think about the good things in your life, your health, your skills, your musical talent, your friends and family, your home, your job, the sunshine, flowers, and trees.
5. Learn to re-phrase your negative thoughts: Your negative thoughts are signals that something is out of sync in your thinking process. It is your cue to re-think your negative pattern to a more positive one.
6. Apply your strengths: Ask yourself which of your varied strengths apply to a particular situation. Ask yourself how you coped with a particular stressful situation in the past and apply that particular method.
7. Pat yourself on the back: Waiting around for someone to pat you on the back for your good deeds or accomplishments will only add to your negative statements. Give yourself credit for what you know you've done and done it well.
8. Be good to yourself: Don't be so hard on yourself when you make a mistake. We all make mistakes and we learn from them, that's the real purpose of mistakes, some are smaller than others and some have less of an impact than others. It's part of life.
These helpful hints are not in numerical order; they are simply hints on how to arrange your thoughts for a better life. Life is full of ups and downs because it's part of life. The key is to learn to manage the downs wisely and enjoy the ups with passion for a better life.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)chamomile tea also helps calm anxietiesPlease log in to respond to this comment.Hello Min from Chicago,
I'm so sorry I didn't respond sooner on your comment, I've been very intent on a writing project and haven't checked my account. However, I would like to say that I agree with you 100% on the chamomile tea. Excellent choice.
I will check in here more often :)
Krystalina from MinnesotaPlease log in to respond to this comment.
hi :) i know this is two years late, but i just googled "how to arrange your thoughts", and read your article, so i would like to ask you...what if you have so much plans for the future and they're all attached to each other....what do you do..? how do you arrange them? and how do you try avoiding failure? sometimes it feels overwhelming... and im caught in the middle figuring out which one to start with first..... how to arrange PLANS...plans for the future, regardless if its a near or a far future...how do you arrange them inorder to succeed..?
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