276 How To Have A Positive Mindset

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">How do we set up a positive mindset?  More importantly how do we set it up from morning when we awake and when we start work?  What are we feeding our mind?  What things are occupying our thoughts?  How do we control what we allow into our mind?  Who has influence over our mindset?  Are we in control or are we being controlled? </span> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Usually, our start of the day begins with a quick scan of our email or social media to see what has happened overnight.  The problems of yesterday and the one’s we will be facing hereafter are brought straight into the brain from the start of the day.  We then access the media in some format or other, but the content is consistently the same – predominantly bad news!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Is this the best way to get us into a positive mindset?  It is reality and we are unlikely to change the need to access our email or to check on world and local events.  We could just ignore it all, but in this fast paced world, that is a luxury that we won’t be enjoying anytime soon. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">We can’t shut it out, but we can balance it out a bit better.  Accept that the start of the day is already working against having a positive mindset and accept that it is going to be like this forever.  We need to take some countermeasures.  We need to create some time at the start of the day to get ourselves into a positive frame of mind.  The start of the day is key because once the day get’s going, the chance for any type of personal reflection is absorbed by crises, meetings, email deluge, phone calls, etc.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">We shouldn’t expect that somehow this positive mindset pivot is going to happen by itself.  We need to schedule an intervention.  Schedule is the key word here because t