Staying Positive

When you have the aim,always remember it and it will keep you going. For example if you are running to cross a line and then you fall down before you do,the best thing would be to crawl to make sure you close. So when you keep reminding yourself what you want to achieve at the end you get the energy to keep going

I have problems trying to stay positive 90% of the time. I find it hard!

To stay positive, I always look upward and this reminds me I have God who will see me through no matter what.

For every negative factor, I have a positive one too. So I simply turn towards the positive one when it becomes too negative for me to handle.

I don't know. It has something to do with gratitude. Finding something to be thankful for.

Just choose to be happy.. always! Pray and be grateful. It helps a lot!

I tell myself..Self..you are the only one who really can help you..so i make more brownies..

In 1995 when my grandfather passed away, I had a nervous breakdown, the sadness and the incidents keep returning back even now. That incident and a few others - especially when I was on bed for 8 long months in 2008, made me look at things and life in a very different perspective. And today, I dont care about feeling gloomy, depressed or even being happy or positive. I have learned to accept them as a phase and now I am trying to learn the art of being indifferent to them.

I choose to look at the situation as it really is. If I feel down, I look into myself and look for the reason. Emotions and feelings are really chemicals in our brain, hormones and more... I sometimes just decide to put the bad thoughts out and think about happy things. I can also find the good thing within the bad thing. For example, if I got no answer from a good friend, it can be a good reason to ask him personally if he has any problem and that can be a good opportunity to find out about him. Staying positive has a lot to do with fighting an addiction, it requires a lot of self awareness and control, choosing and deciding what to do. One more point, don't fight the urge to cry because it is also a natural need. Letting out the tears and the anger (hitting a pillow for example) is healthy more than keeping the feelings inside. That's what I know.

I've had lots of practice over the years at having to turn my thoughts around. I tend to wallow in self pity and negativity for a very short time, then try and find something in my life to be positive about, no matter how small.

have a happy place where you can step aside in your thoughts and focus on something else entirely for awhile

I do something positive, that will surely make me happy. Like listening to music, or reading, or writing something from my heart. I feel elated and then the problems cease to be so.

I try to tune the problems and negativity away and focus on positive thoughts and keeping a good attitude

I just think of my family. I know if I turn to negative thoughts or go back to anything that I left, the thought of my loved ones can be the stumbling block for my thoughts to entertain such. I always remember my family and it ends

I think about positive things in my life and then the negative will go away.

I'm more inclined to embrace the negativity but keep going anyway

Since I have debilitating health issues @allen0187 , I maintain by having a sense of humor. And that's what I want people to remember me for.

For me I try and put things in perspective, that is...try and make them smaller then they may appear in my mind. Sometimes that's not possible though, because let's face it, somethings are important. So I more or less try and take an hour a day and do something that demands all my attention so it gives me a break. Last summer it was going to the lake everyday and getting attacked by ducks...well, the duck thing wasn't planned, it just happened;)