How to Find Happiness and Positivity While You Stop Negativity and Overcome Mental Bad Habits

How To Find Happiness Starting Now

Let's look at the keys to long-term happiness. This is something you do for yourself. No one can create happiness within you--no one can ruin it for you. Happiness is an attitude, and a choice of focus.

One of the essential keys to having long-term happiness is to watch what you're telling yourself. Watch what your focus is. Watch what you're thinking all the time.

If you're telling yourself bad things and you're always grumbling about how rotten life is, guess what? You're not going to feel very happy. You need to watch what your focus is, and catch the negativity. What are you telling yourself?

Mental bad habits include--negative thinking, mentally criticizing yourself or others often, making yourself feel guilty, scaring yourself into inaction, getting angry or blowing up, thinking depressing thoughts, dwelling on limitations or problems you encounter, on and on. Do you have any of these bad habits? It's time to catch them and break them.

Another key to building a powerful attitude, is that you make positivity a habit. You build the habit of positive thinking patterns. It's a choice. The habit is yours to create. Focus on the positive, or focus on the negative. Set up the happiness and empowering pattern to run mentally.

Building Up Your Positive Thinking

How do you build a habit? With repetition. You do it over and over and over and the more you do it the easier and better it gets. So happiness is truly a choice, and it's a habit that you build.

Do you do any sports well? Can you cook decently? Are you a good driver? Do you have a skill you use at work often that you do with ease--keyboarding perhaps? All of this is built by the key habit builder--repetition.

Olympic gold medal ice skater Scott Hamilton, when being interviewed about his cancer treatment discussed attitude. Scott said, "The biggest handicap is a negative attitude."

He discussed in his work with dozens of coaches and hundreds of athletes during his career. He said the only in people he really tried to avoid, were those who were pessimistic and negative. They could cast a dark cloud over even the best performance, and drag everyone around them down.

Scott went on to say, "Do you ever have bad days? Are there times when your performance is not up to par? Do you make mistakes that slow you down or cause problems? Absolutely! We all have great experiences and we all have lousy experiences. The attitude you carry when going through those tough times makes all the difference."

Get A Handle On Your Self-Talk & Positive Attitude

Is it easy to become positive and stay feeling up? Psychological research shows it's actually easier to be negative then it is to be positive. Yet, the payoff for getting positive and staying positive, is far greater. Life is more fun, you have more enjoyable relationships, people want to work with you, your body responds with better health, and your energy level goes up.

Who would you rather be around--someone who's grumpy and angry all the time, or someone who is basically happy and optimistic? It is a choice. The one you choose, positive or negative, either enhances your life and your options, or diminishes the possibilities around you. Find happiness within yourself right now through creating a positive self-talk pattern.

There are countless positive potentials and possibilities that you could engage in. It's time to make a decision to manage your mental dialogue and be one of those people with this positivity moving through everything you experience.

Dr Norman Vincent Peale in his book, "The Power of Positive Thinking" said, "A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; they refuse to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results even in the worst of conditions."

So being positive or being negative is a decision and choice. That's really what Dr. Peale is saying. It's a choice to refuse to give in to the negative. It's a choice not going to let it suck you down and take away from the beauty and good things in your life.

Focus On The Positive & Eliminate The Negative

There are many things every one of us have to be grateful for. Instead of focusing on gratefulness some people focus on all the bad. Again, that's a choice. Don't go there. Break through the negativity and mental bad habits.

Happiness is something that happens because of persistence. Do something to make your happiness grow moment to moment, day to day.

How to find happiness is to choose it! It's a choice of focus, a choice of desire, a choice of keeping on until you get where you want to go. You choose it, you make it better, and you keep moving forward day after day. The happiness key is in your mind already. Grab it and open the door to a great life!

Make today and every day, a great day. Get out there and go for it! 

Dr Larry Iverson.