Many people will say "Easier said than done" but it is true, by applying some effort into altering the way you perceive something negative in your life being you can change it into a positive.

How do I know? Well because I did it. A year ago I wasn't that happy within and I didn't know why, I just didn't feel fulfilled. I was pregnant with baby number four and just going through the motions. I started to interact with positive people online at adoptamum.com and it is as if I have given my life a whole make-over and all I did was change my thoughts from negative to being more positive. I now live a happy and fulfilled life and it has had a knock on affect throughout all of my relationships with husband, children, friends and family. So simple to do and with such high rewards.

How to do it!

• Take a moment and think of something that is negative in your life.
• Can you or do you want to change this from a negative to a positive?
• If yes, get a page, draw a circle in the middle of it and write in it what your negative is.
• Look at it for a few moments and think about how you can think more positively towards your issue.
• Write down around it any positives that you can think of, no matter how small.
• Allow yourself to feel grateful for these positives.
• For the next week promise yourself to think only the positives on your page, keep the page close by and look at it when you can.
• By projecting positives towards your negative you should feel the benefits within yourself and may even get a more positive response from your negative, it may no longer feel like a negative.

By doing this exercise I found that I tricked my mind into feeling happy when I hadn't felt happy before. You can apply it to as many negatives in your life as you feel need addressing, in order help you lead a more happy and fulfilling life.


I like this quote as it reflects that even if you don't have the opportunity to change an external problem, you do have the power to change the way you internally deal with it.

Surround yourself with happy people
If you interact with happy people it will have a positive affect on you. Happiness is contagious and you will absorb happy energies from others when you interact with them. You can do this by joining a feel good group online or in your community, or simply meet up with friends that make you smile.

A song that my daughter sings regularly as she merrily skips through life always comes to me when I am feeling down : "Think happy thoughts, happy thoughts and they will come back to you. Think happy thoughts, Happy thoughts and the whole world will seem brand new."  

Happier more positive days await should you want them. It is worth remembering that time is precious and cannot be retrieved back, so it is viatally important for us to be happy in the NOW.

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