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Simple Ways How To Change Your Mindset From Negative Thinking To Positive Action — Photo by Binti Malu on Pexels.com

Every day in human life there are parts that can seem like groundhog day. We have to breathe in O2 and breathe out Co2, eat and drink daily as well as going to the toilet. We repeat this action until the day we pass on to the next life. One other part of our day that we can’t get away from is negative thoughts. It can be as simple as doubting yourself or judging someone by the way they look or act. Even though you have never spoken it. That’s why there needs to be a circuit breaker in the mind to change your mindset.

We are all at fault for negative thinking, even the most positive person you can think of. The main difference is that some people live in the negative thoughts they have and halts their growth. While others quieten the negative thinking and replace it with seeds of positivity.

Like all habits, the way you think and act is a by-product of your environment. Who you listen to, what you read and where you work matters in the production of negative thinking or positive action.

Below are simple ways you can change your mindset into positive action. The benefits of health, wealth and wellbeing are strongly connected with the way we think. Creating a mindset that helps those three areas of life comes from positive thinking and action.

3 Quick Ways To Change Your Mindset To Postive Action

Write Down All Your Negative Thoughts

This might sound counterintuitive when we need to focus on positive action. But letting problems and negative thinking build up in the mind. Will only clog the mind where positivity will find it hard to break through. By writing down all your negative thoughts about yourself, your actions, your life and whatever else you can think of. You will release your mind of the weight of all your negativity.

This practice should be part of your self-care routine once a week or once a month.

The next part is the positive action. With everything you have written down, you will write down a solution for each one. For example, if you write down “I’m not smart enough” you can find a solution where you can start reading books, complete a degree, listen to a podcast and say to yourself every day “I am smart enough.”

By finding solutions to everything on your list you will start changing your personality, thoughts, habits and actions into positive ones that will propel your life forward.

By the end of it, you will feel great and have yourself the intention to grow.

Become Self Aware Of Your Thoughts

Without self-awareness, nothing can change. By practising conscious thinking you will start to recognise patterns in your life that have become autopilot where the body controls the mind.

First, you have to observe yourself throughout your day and spot when you produce negative thinking and what triggers it. You have to question whether it’s your job, spouse or living location?

Whatever it is first becoming self-aware can allow you to find ways to overcome the triggers that set you off into negative thinking.

For me, it can be as easy as reading the news. As you know 95% of news is all doom and gloom and purposely done to tap into our tribal mind in some cases.

Once I was self-aware of this. I changed my news intake to the latest scientific studies I am interested in, good news apps and sports news. This allowed my mind not to get sucked into problems that don’t concern me or affect my mindset.

I see now if it’s important enough to affect my life like a health pandemic. I will find out either way.

Create A Positive Environment

The environment you live your life in matters when it comes to the way you think. If you’re in a job, a household or social networks that are of negative thinking. They will drag you down and you will start seeing yourself thinking and talking as they do.

That’s why it’s in your control of where you work, what city you live in and whom you spend your free time with.

Creating an environment that fosters positivity makes it so much easier to fight negative thoughts and produce positive actions.

Imagine if you decided to give up alcohol or cigarettes and everyone around you drunk or smoked. It would a lot harder prospect with many more temptations challenging you to give in.

Review every part of your life and what actions you can do today that help makes it a much positive environment to be in.

Take Charge Of Your Mind

When the body controls the mind you want to hope that the habits you have formed are extraordinary. Unfortunately in most cases, it’s not. That’s why you have to be in the driving seat of your minds decision making when it comes to thoughts. Being in the passenger seat of your life keeps you on a path you have no control over.

With simple tips to start above and having the mindset of conscious thinking. You are on the way to creating a mindset that can make you happy but achieve all the things you want to achieve.

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A Final Word From The Future Mindset

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If you want to take your mindset to the next level how about scheduling a 30-min discovery session to chat about your current status, results you want, and next steps. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

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Every day we make thousands of choices. Some are conscious desions but most are subconscious habits we have formed over the years that are either helping us move forward or holding us back. The hidden cost is real. You just have to look closer.

I have investigated my own hidden costs and came to realise there are some eye-opening hidden costs that I make each day without relising. It comes from many different areas of your life. It can be eating that sugary sweet pudding or watching that extra episode of your favourite show. The hidden cost is there from health to time focussing more meaningful projects.

Now eating a chocolate bar or watching Netflix now and then isn’t going to cost you much. But you overeat and or binge-watch on a daily basis then you are going to see hidden costs of this action start to affect your health and growth.

How you can find yourself in this position for example overeating is because at the moment you are not seeing the consequences of your actions just the feeling you getting in that moment. As the weight piles on it can take an outside voice to notice how much you have changed for you to realise the cost of you eating unhealthy for so long.

That’s why it’s important to be conscious and self -aware of your desions your making each day and what hidden cost your happy to accept and which ones you have to avoid at all cost.

The Iceberg Factor

You are probably very familiar with the iceberg picture where underneath you see all the choices someone has to make to reach the top that no one sees. Then at the top is all the success that everyone sees. This applies to your life. underneath the iceberg is all the decisions you have ever made and at the top is what everyone sees.

Your life is either in a place you want and is happy or you are in a place you don’t want to be and are unhappy. The reality is this is based on the choices you make each day and every choice you make will have a cost.

I too have looked at my life and on reflection have not been happy with the outcome. This has come down to two things, comfort and fear.

Making Decisions From A Place Of Comfort And Fear

When we make decisions from a place of comfort and fear we are more likely to get outcomes we won’t like.

If we always choose the easy road out of comfort we will always receive nothing of value back. The hidden cost will be regret of time wasted, financial scarcity and unhappiness in the long term by the short term decisions at the moment that are made.

The seconds desions making tool people will find a huge hidden cost is making choices out of fear. A fear that I need to take this job or I won’t get another chance, a fear I have to make this investment or I will miss out. Too many people think that there is not enough to go around. This mentality got its claws into me and it’s actually not true. You will go on Instagram, want a job at Google or join a competitive market and think there is no space for me to join. Where in fact there is always room. There are many examples of this is just take hard work and better choices to unlock the hidden costs of more improved actions to attain the goal.

That’s why when analysing your own hidden costs. Eliminating comfort and fear-based habits and choices from your life will clear the way for the life you want.

Be Clear On What You Want

Before you find out what hidden costs in your own life is holding you back. First, you have to create a clear picture of the future you want to have. If it’s open up a bar on a beachfront compared to creating the next Tesla or Amazon it’s going to take completely different strategies and more rigorous discipline for the latter.

So spend time creating your vision. Then you can get to work on what you need to do. In order to reap the benefits from choices, you will have to make.

Steps To Analysing Your Own Hidden Costs

Step 1 – Review your Hidden Cost

Alongside your vision and goals, you have set yourself. Start to analyse all the choices you make in your life that would stop you from achieving your goals.

For example, if you want a six-pack body, eliminating excess sugar from your diet is a hidden cost you will have to eliminate.

I would go for the big ones first when looking at your hidden costs. The habits in your life that would make a huge difference in your life if you eliminate them.

Step 2 – Keep And Create Winning Habits

After finding all the hidden costs that will affect the attainment of your goals. Now it’s time for the exciting part of looking and creating new habits that will help you achieve your goals.

So first analyse the habits you have. If the goal is to become a millionaire by 40. You can see already you have a good habit of investing in an index fund. The drawback is this will make you a millionaire by 60. Creating a new habit of investing more each month will help you to retire at 40.

Finding already good habits and creating new ones is the dream ticket to attain the goals you have set for yourself.

To Conclude

Every choice you make will have a hidden cost. The trick is finding the cost that helps you reach your goals. Too many people go through life making bad decisions and wonder why there are not achieving their goals. Don’t be like them. Make the changes needed by getting rid of habits that hold you back. Then create new ones that will help you succeed.

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A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article The Hidden Cost From The Choices We Make Each Day. I hope the article has helped in some way.

If you want to take your mindset to the next level. How about scheduling a 30-min discovery session to chat about your current status, results you want, and next steps. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

We are on social media platforms below but we are really excited to announce our weekly newsletter about everything mindset. Sign up below and enjoy the process of building your mental strength.

@thefuturemindset/@futuremindset_