☆Effendy Karto☆ posted:

Have a Positive Outlook on Life,
Let's focus on how a positive mind-set can help individuals overcome life's challenges. If you can not get past the negative and start looking at the positive than you will never be able to achieve your goals.

A positive mind-set can help you as a individual grow and develop skills and techniques to work towards your goals. Let's face it. You have goals right? Do you see yourself accomplishing things and having happiness and energy. Let's push past the excuses. Let's focus on putting your life out there and risking it for success.

First things first the key to having a positive outlook on life is that you have to have a healthy self-esteem and self-confidence.The self-esteem is the part of your self-concept that evaluates self-worth. Your self-concept is relatively stable set perceptions you hold on yourself.

When you receive support and encouragement from significant people than that is when you start to appreciate yourself. Life Lesson: you are a individual and have your own special purpose. You control who is in your life and who is not. It is time to take charge of your life and get rid of those who are bad influences or are negative around you. You are better off in the end and more likely to succeed if you surround yourself with supportive people. Time to work on that self-esteem of yours.

Self-esteem works two ways. The positive cycle and the negative cycle. The positive cycle equals high self-esteem and you have positive thoughts such as "I can do this." Or "I did a wonderful job today." Having a positive self-esteem gives you desirable behavior. The negative cycle means low self-esteem and you catch yourself thinking " I can't do this" or "Great, I failed again".

Remember to have a positive self-esteem you need to find out who you are. So Who Are You? Make a list of 10-20 words or phrases the most important features of who you are. This list will give you some sense of who you are and why your special. Because to have a healthy self-esteem...you have to know Who You Are. You also have to accept that the way you view yourself may be at odds with the way everyone else views you. You just need to keep a hold of that list and remember who you are. Keep motivated and work hard to work forward.

A healthy self-concept is flexible. People change. You will change over time. From moment to moment we are not the same. You could wake up and be so happy! Then after lunch feel grumpy. One day you will be interested in one topic and the next suddenly loose interest. As you change, your self-concept will need to change to remain realistic. Your self-concept should reflect who you are over time.

Down to the point: To change your self-concept you need to set realistic expectations for yourself. Not everyone handles every situation perfectly. We are just human. Expecting yourself to reach a unrealistic goal is setting yourself up for a doom. Therefore you need to judge yourself in terms of your own personal growth. You also need to have a realistic perception of yourself. One source of low self-esteem is because of inaccurate self-perception. Sometimes people are just to harsh on their selves. Cut yourself a break OK? Everyone makes mistakes and they learn from them. Time to pick up and grow. Imagine yourself as a newly planted seed. It takes time, energy and work to blossom. However you NEED to have the will and motivation to change. You must be willing to do the necessary work to change your life. Whether that means cleaning up your messes you've made and moving on as a better person. Or growing as a individual on the road to self discovery.

Positive mind-sets can gice you the power to turn your failures and your challenges in life into success. You push that success to a whole new level and accomplish things you have never dreamed of. Those people with the positive attitudes can look at their obstacles and can see through them with their faith and start working towards accomplishing their goals.

Take control of your life now. When your mind and body are in sync with one another then you will start gaining a positive outlook on life. Which will give you exactly what you need to start working to achieve those goals.

You have to visualize what you want in life and work for it. Humans are visual creatures. We need to be motivated and see what is ahead for us. So do some research and visualize your path.