Following are some ways to think and behave in a more positive and optimistic way: The process is simple, but it does take time and practice - you're creating a new habit, after all. You can learn to turn negative thinking into positive thinking.
You see things only as either good or bad. Keeping impossible standards and trying to be more perfect sets yourself up for failure. You make a big deal out of minor problems. You think of all the things you think you should do and blame yourself for not doing them. You avoid being responsible for your thoughts and feelings. You try to say someone else is responsible for what happened to you instead of yourself. The drive-through coffee shop gets your order wrong, and then you think that the rest of your day will be a disaster. You automatically anticipate the worst without facts that the worse will happen. For example, you hear that an evening out with friends is canceled, and you assume that the change in plans is because no one wanted to be around you. When something bad occurs, you automatically blame yourself. That evening, you focus only on your plan to do even more tasks and forget about the compliments you received. You completed your tasks ahead of time and were complimented for doing a speedy and thorough job. For example, you had a great day at work.
You magnify the negative aspects of a situation and filter out all the positive ones. What do you think about this article? Email let us know.Not sure if your self-talk is positive or negative? Some common forms of negative self-talk include: “Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” “The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.” “Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.” One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! – and listens to their testimony.” “If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. Baldwin, speaking in a 1961 radio interview “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” “There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” “Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.” Baldwin speaking to LIFE magazine in 1963 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” Read on for some of his most prescient, and often still painfully true, musings on literature, race, self-belief, prejudice and more. In the decades following his death in 1987, the rise of movements like Black Lives Matter and ongoing discourse on race, social inequality and sexuality show that there is still a long way to go on the march to equality – and Baldwin's words are often to be found at the centre of these conversations. He was also a leading voice in the Civil Rights Movement, known for his insightful work that gave voice to the African American experience and sought to educate white Americans on what it meant to be Black.
He went on to be one of the most significant writers of American literature, famous for novels including Giovanni's Room (1965) and If Beale Street Could Talk (1974). Hailed as a gifted pupil at an early age, Baldwin discovered a particular passion for writing during his teens and at 13, he wrote his first article, Harlem – Then and Now, for a school magazine. Photograph: Getty | Image: Alicia Fernandes/Penguin
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