HOW TO LIVE A POSITIVE LIFESTYLE

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What Is a Positive Lifestyle?

  • A positive lifestyle means a positive attitude and taking positive action.
  • It means focusing on solutions, not on problems.
  • It means constantly improving yourself and your life.
  • It means learning from failure and then moving on and trying again.
  • It means living in the present, making the most of it, and not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.
  • It means focusing and noticing the good traits of people, not just their negative ones. This requires that you stop criticizing and judging people and being more kind and helpful.
  • A positive lifestyle means a positive outlook and viewpoint, expecting the best, and striving to do the best you can.

As you see, you don’t need money, possessions or fame to live this kind of life. However, if you adopt it, and persevere with it, your life would improve, you will become happier, have more friends, and even your financial conditions might improve, because you will approach difficulties and problems, goals and dreams in a different and more practical manner.

This kind of lifestyle does not depend on your circumstance, where you live, and what you do for a living. It depends on a certain attitude and state of mind. You can adopt this kind of lifestyle, irrespective of your financial condition, age, work or circumstances.

You can live a positive lifestyle, even if you have problems and difficulties and your life conditions are negative. All you need is to strive to change your attitude toward life, and change a few of your habits. With a little effort and perseverance, you can improve your life and bring more positivity into it.

14 Simple Tips for Living a Positive Lifestyle

1. When facing a problem, focus on solutions. Refuse to allow your mind to think of difficulties and on negative results that might face. Insist of finding a solution.

2. Acknowledge problems and difficulties, but face them with courage and a positive attitude.

3. Smile more often when in the company of people. They will like you more and you will feel happier, but your smile needs to be sincere, not mechanical. Try to be friendly and kind. This would help you smile naturally and sincerely.

4. Look around you, and you will always find something that can bring a smile to your face. For a while forget everything that is bothering and smile.

5. Learn to let go. You waste a lot of time energy when you attach yourself to the past, to habits that are not useful, and wishing things and people were different. What has happened cannot be undone, so why waste your time and energy over it? It is better and wiser to go on.

6. You need to learn to detach yourself from what is disturbing, bothering or hurting you in your life. This is possible with a little dose of emotional detachment.

7. Don’t be afraid to show courage, self-esteem and assertiveness. At the same time, be kind and tolerant toward people.

8. Eat more healthy food and less junk food.

9. Exercise your body regularly. You may take a good walk a few times a week, swim,, go to the gym or engage in any kind of sport you want.

10. Strive to be as positive and optimistic as you can. Instead of wallowing in fears and worries and criticizing others, find out how to improve your life, solve your problems and be more happy, not in the future, but right now.

11. Choose happiness and focus on happiness, because what you focus on grows. There are moments of sadness in life, and there is failure and there are obstacles. Acknowledge them, but do not dwell on them. Look at them as lessons, and strive to find ways to overcome them.

12. Don’t be afraid of the new and unfamiliar, get out of your comfort zone and do things you have not done before. You can do small things, like tasting a different kind of food, meeting new people, going for walks or going to hear lectures on a topic that is new to you.

13. Resist to the temptation to procrastinate and postpone for tomorrow or to an indefinite date, what you can do today.

14. Always ask yourself, how can I improve, how can I do better what I am doing, and how can I improve my life?

Remember, if you want to live a positive lifestyle you need to take control of your life. You need to be proactive with your life, not passive. Do not just daydream and wish things were different. Do not wait for a better and happier day.

Seeks out the good, and make your day beautiful, even if there are dark clouds. Expect the best, but also do your best. Be the one who decides and make your life better and happier better.



By: Oluwapelumi Atanseiye

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