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How to stay motivated and not procrastinate

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How to stay motivated and not procrastinate

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4 Simple Tricks to Stay Motivated Every Day

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I think the meditation tip was really great and connects well to this class. Meditation can be a great stress reliever.
- Jenna Traynor

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☀️ How to Stay Positive and Grateful Even At Your Lowest

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Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing

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Research reveals that environments can increase or reduce our stress, which in turn impacts our bodies. What you are seeing, hearing, experiencing at any moment is changing not only your mood, but how your nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are working.

The stress of an unpleasant environment can cause you to feel anxious, or sad, or helpless. This in turn elevates your blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension and suppresses your immune system. A pleasing environment reverses that.

And regardless of age or culture, humans find nature pleasing. In one study cited in the book Healing Gardens, researchers found that more than two-thirds of people choose a natural setting to retreat to when stressed.

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How Does Nature Impact Our Wellbeing? | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing

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Research reveals that environments can increase or reduce our stress, which in turn impacts our bodies. What you are seeing, hearing, experiencing at any moment is changing not only your mood, but how your nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are working.

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Why it’s important to stay positive

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We can do our best to react with positivity when things get tough. Now, I want to be clear that I don't mean you should ignore your negative feelings entirely, I just want to suggest that they should be dealt with properly and they should not be invited to stick around longer than necessary.

As someone who has dealt with depression on and off for most of my life, I should be really good at this. But I'll let you in on a little secret: I still have my bad days, but I have learned that more than anything it takes practice and that it is also worth the effort. This is why it is important to stay positive.

Positivity attracts other positive people and situations.
If you are open and try your best to look on the bright side, people will enjoy your company. You will make more friends, which can lead the way to more opportunities in life. You will also be ready when new situations present themselves, whereas if you are letting yourself dwell in the negative you might reject something that could change your life for the better. Be open and look at the good.
'If you give it a try I'm sure it will do the same for you.'
You will be healthier.
This is because when you are positive your stress levels are usually reduced. Therefore, If you are looking at the good things in your life and allowing yourself to be grateful for them you won't be able to be as stressed about the negative things going on. I mean, who is stressed when they are focusing on what they do have and appreciate? Not me. It only makes my heart warm, which I rather enjoy, and if you give it a try I'm sure it will do the same for you.

Your relationships will be stronger.
Healthy relationships lead to more happiness and take it from me - a negative mindset can have a heavy toll on a relationship. That doesn't mean that you can't rely on the people you love when you need to it just means, again, don't let negativity dwell where it is not necessary. Try your best to have a positive outlook and people will enjoy being around you more. Like I said before positivity draws people in.
'Why not choose confidence when you have the choice?'
You will be more confident.
I can only speak for myself here, but I doubt it is much different for all of you. Negativity breeds self-doubt. When I let myself think negatively, I don't want to put myself out there-for anything. On the other hand, positivity breeds confidence. So, why not choose confidence when you have the choice?

Last of all, It doesn't hurt to try. You have nothing to lose. So, give it a try. Start with just sitting down and thinking about the things you are thankful for. Next, try smiling, even for just a few seconds. Maybe even run through the good things that can come from a situation. In most cases, there is at least one. Just start there and do your best, like I said it takes practice sometimes and some situations will take more effort than others, but it is definitely worth it!

Give it a try.

By Lindy Callahan
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5 Reasons It's So Important To Stay Positive - Career Girl Daily

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We can do our best to react with positivity when things get tough. Now, I want to be clear that I don't mean you should ignore your negative feelings entirely, I just want to suggest that they should be dealt with properly and they should not be invited to stick around longer than necessary.

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1. separate facts from fiction
2. find anything positive
3. cultivate an attitude of gratitude

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We've all received the well-meaning advice to "stay positive." The greater the challenge, the more this glass-half-full wisdom can come across as Pollyannaish and unrealistic. It's hard to find the motivation to focus on the positive when positivity seems like nothing more than wishful thinking.

The real obstacle to positivity is that our brains are hard-wired to look for and focus on threats. This survival mechanism served humankind well back when we were hunters and gatherers, living each day with the very real threat of being killed by someone or something in our immediate surroundings.

That was eons ago. Today, this mechanism breeds pessimism and negativity through the mind's tendency to wander until it finds a threat. These "threats" magnify the perceived likelihood that things are going-and/or are going to go-poorly. When the threat is real and lurking in the bushes down the path, this mechanism serves you well. When the threat is imagined and you spend two months convinced the project you're working on is going to flop, this mechanism leaves you with a soured view of reality that wreaks havoc in your life.

Maintaining positivity is a daily challenge that requires focus and attention. You must be intentional about staying positive if you're going to overcome the brain's tendency to focus on threats. An emotional intelligence test can provide some powerful feedback to help you with this, as it won't happen by accident.
Positivity And Your Health
Pessimism is trouble because it's bad for your health. Numerous studies have shown that optimists are physically and psychologically healthier than pessimists.

Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania has conducted extensive research on the topic. Seligman worked with researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Michigan on a study that followed people from age 25 to 65 to see how their levels of pessimism or optimism influenced their overall health. The researchers found that pessimists' health deteriorated far more rapidly as they aged.

Seligman's findings are similar to research conducted by the Mayo Clinic that found optimists have lower levels of cardiovascular disease and longer life-spans. Although the exact mechanism through which pessimism affects health hasn't been identified, researchers at Yale and the University of Colorado found that pessimism is associated with a weakened immune response to tumors and infection.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky went so far as to inject optimists and pessimists with a virus to measure their immune response. The researchers found optimists had a much stronger immune response than pessimists.
Positivity And Performance
Keeping a positive attitude isn't just good for your health. Martin Seligman has also studied the connection between positivity and performance. In one study in particular, he measured the degree to which insurance salespeople were optimistic or pessimistic in their work. Optimistic salespeople sold 37% more policies than pessimists, who were twice as likely to leave the company during their first year of employment.

Seligman has studied positivity more than anyone, and he believes in the ability to turn pessimistic thoughts and tendencies around with simple effort and know-how. But Seligman doesn't just believe this. His research shows that people can transform a tendency toward pessimistic thinking into positive thinking through simple techniques that create lasting changes in behavior long after they are discovered.

Here are three things that I'll be doing this year to stay positive.
1. Separate Fact From Fiction
The first step in learning to focus on the positive requires knowing how to stop negative self-talk in its tracks. The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our negative thoughts are just that - thoughts, not facts.

When you find yourself believing the negative and pessimistic things your inner voice says, it's time to stop and write them down. Literally stop what you're doing and write down what you're thinking. Once you've taken a moment to slow down the negative momentum of your thoughts, you will be more rational and clear-headed in evaluating their veracity. Evaluate these statements to see if they're factual. You can bet the statements aren't true any time you see words like never, always, worst, ever, etc.

Do you really always lose your keys? Of course not. Perhaps you forget them frequently, but most days you do remember them. Are you never going to find a solution to your problem? If you really are that stuck, maybe you've been resisting asking for help. Or if it really is an intractable problem, then why are you wasting your time beating your head against the wall? If your statements still look like facts once they're on paper, take them to a friend or colleague you can trust, and see if he or she agrees with you. Then the truth will surely come out.

When it feels like something always or never happens, this is just your brain's natural threat tendency inflating the perceived frequency or severity of an event. Identifying and labeling your thoughts as thoughts by separating them from the facts will help you escape the cycle of negativity and move toward a positive new outlook.
2. Identify A Positive
Once you snap yourself out of self-defeating, negative thoughts, it's time to help your brain learn what you want it to focus on - the positive.

This will come naturally after some practice, but first you have to give your wandering brain a little help by consciously selecting something positive to think about. Any positive thought will do to refocus your brain's attention. When things are going well, and your mood is good, this is relatively easy. When things are going poorly, and your mind is flooded with negative thoughts, this can be a challenge. In these moments, think about your day and identify one positive thing that happened, no matter how small. If you can't think of something from the current day, reflect on the previous day or even the previous week. Or perhaps there is an exciting event you are looking forward to that you can focus your attention on.

The point here is you must have something positive that you're ready to shift your attention to when your thoughts turn negative. Step one stripped the power from negative thoughts by separating fact from fiction. Step two is to replace the negative with a positive. Once you have identified a positive thought, draw your attention to that thought each time you find yourself dwelling on the negative. If that proves difficult, you can repeat the process of writing down the negative thoughts to discredit their validity, and then allow yourself to freely enjoy positive thoughts.
3. Cultivate An Attitude Of Gratitude
Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the "right" thing to do; it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%. Research conducted at the University of California, Davis, found that people who worked daily to cultivate an attitude of gratitude experienced improved mood, energy and substantially less anxiety due to lower cortisol levels.

You cultivate an attitude of gratitude by taking time out every day to focus on the positive. Any time you experience negative or pessimistic thoughts, use this as a cue to shift gears and think about something positive. In time, a positive attitude will become a way of life.
Bringing It All Together
I realize these three tips sound incredibly basic, but they have tremendous power because they train your brain to have a positive focus. They break old habits, if you force yourself to use them. Given the mind's natural tendency to wander toward negative thoughts, we can all use a little help with staying positive. Join me in putting these steps to use this year, and you'll reap the physical, mental, and performance benefits that come with a positive frame of mind.
How do you stay positive? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below, as I learn just as much from you as you do from me.

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10 Ways to Stay Positive When You're Lonely, Depressed, or Quarantined

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7 Keys to a Positive Personality | Brian Tracy

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Times are especially hard and uncomfortable right now, so here is 100 reasons to be happy with life currently

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Pic credit: Nordica Photography

One evening, a Cherokee elder told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside people's heads.
He said, "My son, the battle is between the two 'wolves' that live inside us all.

One is unhappiness. It is fear, worry, anger, jealousy, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, and inferiority. The other is happiness. It is joy, love, hope, serenity, kindness, generosity, truth, and compassion."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied:
"The one you feed".

The happiest people aren't the ones with the most money, things, friends, power, attention, health or even love. Neither are they always the ones with the least, although an unsurprisingly high number are.

The happiest people are the ones who practice gratitude and focus on loving life consistently (along with having goals and making progress towards them).

The idea behind this is simple - every day, find something to be grateful for and appreciate. The more you do this, the more you will find things to be happy about that you hadn't even considered or thought about, and seen gifts in situations that you wouldn't have otherwise.

It's my firm belief that even when it seems like everything's going wrong in your life, there is always, always, ALWAYS something that's going right. You owe it to yourself to find out what that is and bring it into your awareness.

There is no someday, there is only today. Don't let your happiness depend on when you have ______ and if you do _____ or get ______ and feel ______.

Here are 100 reasons to be happy and things to love about your life right now. Feel free to add yours and share this forward!

1. You are alive.

2. You are healthy

3. Someone loves you.

4. Very, very, very much.

5. Your children are safe.

6. The Northern Lights exist.

7. Someone smiled at you today.

8. Being unhappy is a waste of time.

9. You can afford three meals a day.

10. Your husband/bf wants to make you happy.

11. Your wife/gf smiles when she thinks of you.

12. You're about to fall in love like never before.

13. You're single and rocking it like a superstar.

14. You have safe, pure, clean drinking water.

15. There's something you can do better than anyone.

16. It's summer somewhere and the rugby world cup is on.

17. It's fall and the leaves are about to turn glorious shades of warmth.

18. YOU WERE BORN A WINNER - beating out ALL the other spermsicles!

19. Music - dance, soul, rock, funk, reggae, disco, Indie, Bhangra, jazz, country, all sorts.

20. Dopplegangers - someone who looks exactly like you is living in a parallel reality.

21. When you really needed help, someone offered it to you unexpectedly. At least once in your life. If not more.

22. You're about to leave a bad relationship or a soul sucking sitch cos you KNOW you deserve better.

23. Someone, somewhere did that too and not only survived but THRIVED. #JustSayin'.

24. There's a solid roof over your head and it's not raining on you.

25. You've danced in the rain and can almost smell the fresh wet Earth.

26. You had clean, fabulous clothes to wear this morning.

27. Somewhere in the world, a new mom is gazing at her new baby.

28. The interwebs make your world smaller, closer, more connected.

29. You take a stand for what you believe in. Fiercely.

30. Afternoon naps that take you back to childhood.

31. Something you've been wanting just happened.

32. You smiled at someone and made their day.

33. Free video calling across the globe rocks.

34. You smell great and look amazing, mmm.

35. A little puppy was rescued just this second.

36. You said no and meant it this time.

37. You're happily employed.

38. You work for yourself.

39. You don't have either, but trust that it's all happening perfectly.

40. You made a brave decision.

41. You are an angel to someone.

42. Flowers are beautiful.

43. In the wild.

44. Or given to you by someone who cares.

45. You remember your first kiss.

46. Rainbows make you happy.

47. You love shooting stars.

48. You're smiling right now. And you look damn hot!

49. You define success on your own terms.

50. You're stronger than you ever believed.

51. You believed in yourself when no one else did.

52. You believed in someone else when no one else did.

53. Someone believed in you when you needed it most.

54. You've profoundly impacted someone's life.

55. Maybe even saved one. Knowingly or not.

56. You matter. Deeply. Hugely.

57. You have goals and dreams.

58. Some of them have come true.

59. Others are on their way.

60. Babies.

61. Toddlers.

62. Teenagers.

63. Young adults.

64. A job well done.

65. Mass consciousness.

66. Like minded people who get you.

67. Early mornings before anyone else wakes up.

68. Waking up next to someone you love.

69. Anticipating the day you do.

70. Loving yourself first.

71. Lemonade stands.

72. Life of purpose.

73. Your values.

74. Bear hugs.

75. Cuddles.

76. Sunshine.

77. Sunrise.

78. Sunsets.

79. Nutella.

80. Central heating & hot water.

81. There are good people in the world.

82. Cooking / eating your favourite meal.

83. A real home. With people in it you love.

84. Someone brought cupcakes to work and gave you one.

85. You made a bad decision. Two. A hundred. And lived..

86. Something fabulous is out there, taking shape. Emerging, peeking, calling your name. Get excited!You've travelled somewhere and had an amazing experience.

87. Halloween and cute costumed kids are on the way.

88. You know how it feels to have a crush on someone.

89. And have it reciprocated.

90. You have friends.

91. And one you can tell your deepest, darkest secrets too.

92. She's got your memoirs under lock and key.

93. Christmas lights and snow angels.

94. Love is your religion.

95. Kindness cures most everything.

96. You're committed to finding your passion & purpose in life.

97. Transmogrifiers exist in an alternate reality where Calvin and Hobbes are real.

98. You could go back to school and learn something new if you wanted. Or start a new hobby.

99. You have your priorities right. Man makes the money. Money does not make the man.

100. Today could be the best day of your life. Things could turn on a dime.

And just for good measure, here's #101 - nothing.

That's right, you don't need a single REASON to be happy. Just BE.

Want 300 reasons to be happy and love your life right now? Coming right up, Sparklepants! Go here.

Hi! I'm Tia. Multi-passionate Sparklepants, Life Coach, Life Lover, and Curator of Awesome. I run www.yourlifeyourway.net featuring kickass inspiration to help you sparkle through life, no matter what.

Say YES to courage + connection, NO to shoulds + restrictions. You've got one life, baby, live it YOUR way.

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100 reasons to be happy and love your life RIGHT now - no matter what.

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One evening, a Cherokee elder told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside people's heads. He said, "My son, the battle is between the two 'wolves' that live inside us all. One is unhappiness. It is fear, worry, anger, jealousy, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, and inferiority. The other is happiness.

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Here is 100 reasons to smile today.

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I found a video that tells you how to think more positive instead of negative about things.

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Overcome Negative Thoughts | Best Motivational Video For  Positive Thinking

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I found a video with ways to stay mentally healthy emotionally.

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7 Ways to Detox Your Emotional Well Being

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I found a video of a few positive life quotes to help people see the positive sides of life

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🔴 Positive Life Quotes | Positive Mind Quotes

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I found a good video with some great affirmations to put you in a positive and motivated mood.

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120 Positive Affirmations for Health, Healing & Well being

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Tips For Mental Health During Quarantine

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Tips For Mental Health During Quarantine

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I found a video of some good tips to maintain good mental health during quarantine. The tips apply to all aspects of wellness

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8 tips for Mental health during COVID-19 lockdown

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Please find an article, video, picture or other media type that relates to a positive part of wellness.  You can also do a picture of yourself or a video if you're up for the challenge.  I'd love for you to try that.

After embeding it into the padlet, please use the comment section to briefly describe a key tip about what you found helpful.  Also, comment on another person's post.