P O S I T I V E : Aren't you?

Being positive is one of the best traits of some individuals that everyone should possess. This trait could be considered as a big impact as to create ones personality-emotionally, physically, mentally and even socially.

Whatever decision making to be done, being positive is always in it in order to encourage oneself to believe that the result of such decision would possibly be successful.

This trait, indeed, enhances the confidence of everyone to engage things which could lead them for the tendency of having good personal attributes and affiliations which could give and address obstacles in life.

"Be positive." This is the usual encouragement we heard from our friends, family and love ones especially when we are in the midst of trials, different trials that would measure how strong we are in facing problems and how certain we are to compete the hardships in life. That is, after thinking, action will follow. In the other words, we think positive things, we do positive things.

As we reflect ourselves, being positive is not that easy to acquire because might be that all our plans in life will be failed or might be that we will find more difficulties to recover if we fail. This is actually the negative concept of each of us. The action is not yet done but then we as if could foretell its negative result. They say, it is a personal psychological instinct and I would say, this particular instinct falls to a negative concept.

We are always deceived by ourselves believing that we are a positive person. We always act that we are like Alladin believing that everything we want should be given to us. And unfortunately, there are more instances showing our false positive like a drifter who have bet on the lotto and said, "I will win tomorrow and I will hold a drink out for the whole barangay!" Wow! He is a quite positive thinker and then he did not hit luck, he said, "Oh, life is so hard, we are so poor and oppressed." Analyzing the idea, the drifter is not really a positive thinker but a negative one. Another, a particular student who studied very hard and said, "I will pass my exam." But unfortunately, he failed the exam and said,"I am so sad, I am a dullard. I don't like to study anymore."

But how could we able to convert the negative result to a positive one?

Here are some tips to consider in converting negative to positive:

1) Always think for the second chance. Everytime we fail or we could not/have not meet the goals in our lives, negative concepts trigger our minds to think uncertain things to make us feel how pity we are and how unlucky and miserable our lives are. Everyone deserves a second chance. Through this thought, it will help us to encourage ourselves to do once more and try again to prove that even how many times we experienced failure, there is still a chance for us to succeed.

2) We are bound for corrections. Being corrected doesn't mean that we cannot. Instead, we should focus to the idea that it is a great motivation to do much better and to strive harder in order to gain minimize corrections. Critic persons are always been there not to disturb ones feeling and ego but to help for-more enhancement. Apparently, most of us don't want to be corrected because pride dominates natural personality. We always think that these corrections are thoughts instilled in the minds of people to create discouragements and lack of confidence.

We should not look to its negative aspects but rather consider that corrections are positive concepts which could build a strong individual foundation as to continue the journey of life.

Corrections exist to fix our mistakes and out of it, we could learn something which could help us to think optimistically.

3) Believe in yourself. A positive person believe in his self more often. Even he failed many times, he still continue to stand out and face for reaching out his goals. Basically, we don't believe ourselves and people surround us have seen the "we can" in us and yet we don't believe them.

All started from ourselves. If we tend to decide something, we are believing ourselves. If we use our minds to think, we are believing ourselves.But, we did not notice this positive aspect. We always consider the negatives and less consider the positives.

In a relationship such as couples, friends, family and even the relationship between you and yourself have this tendency to leak because of the negative concepts. In order to avoid this, we just simply think that everything happened for a positive purpose, although it is negative at first but positive at the end point.

The characteristic of a positive person are:

P - positive
O - outstanding
S - superb
I - intelligent
T - tough
I - independent
V - visible
E - energetic

Just do your best and God will do the rest. Be positive!

-Karlwinn