It's June! A new month means a new attempt at 31 days of blogging or since it is June 30 days. I am struggling with how fast this year is racing by. I am way behind on projects and it is showing. Luckily, my husband keep things on track when he's home. Too bad he's only home on the weekends and not even every weekend.
Today went pretty well. No major hiccups but no major progress either. I wasn't expecting the one supervisor to come in but she did. So I left after 9 1/2 hours. Got lots to do tomorrow so I need to be hitting it early.
Chapter 4 in the book is an important one. It is "Be Aware of the Snowball Effect of Your Thinking". He talks about how quickly negative and insecure thinking can spiral out of control. For example, you wake up and remember something you need to do the next day. Then you think about everything you need to do. Then it's how are you going to get it all done? Then you obsess over a deadline. And the next thing you know you are feeling overwhelmed. Feeling overwhelmed inhibits your ability to get things done.
He says we need to learn to catch ourselves when we start to have those thoughts and stop ourselves. Try saying to yourself, there I go again or something similar. I think that may be easier said than done.
I tend to do this when there is something I am dreading coming up. For example, I have found that I will dwell on a meeting and think of all the possible negative outcomes. Then I just really don't want to go to that meeting. I even resent having to deal with the whole situation. Usually the meeting is a whole lot better than I thought it would be. Most recently, I had a meeting that I was dreading but I thought about the issue logically and I chose to dwell on the best possible outcome. I went into that meeting with a better frame of mind. The outcome was about as good as it could get even if it wasn't terribly positive.
I think that idea is to curb the negativity in our minds, activities, and lives in general. I have been working on being positive for awhile now. I am reading positive things, watching upbeat shows, doing things that are more productive. It helps to keep me in a positive state of mind.
But I have also found that I don't want to be around negativity. I tend to avoid those people who seem to ooze negativity. I am sure you know someone who just brings you down. I need to find a way to not distance myself from them but still block out the negativity they bring. Controlling my thoughts is the first step.
How do you keep negativity at bay?
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