This document provides tips for maintaining a positive attitude and outlook during economic downturns. It advises focusing on goals and surrounding yourself with positive people instead of complainers. Additional tips include reading success stories, visualizing the life you want, and taking action instead of dwelling on negative thoughts. While changing your mindset may require effort, investing in a positive attitude can help you improve your situation over wasting time with negative thinking.

1. Turning Economic Downturn Into Your Professional AND Personal Advantage!

2. It is a well-known fact that when the state of economy is good, one has a satisfying and well paying steady job, one feels good and tends to be happier and more relaxed. On the other hand, when the state of the economy looks unpromising, there is a tendency to think and feel negative about everything. It is so easy to accept negative thoughts in harsh circumstances and see everything crumbling down. If your life now is not what you want it to be, and this makes you believe that there is no way out. Your inability to stop thinking and focusing on your current situation makes it look worse than it really is, stifles creativity and initiative, being negative will not make things better. Attitude is Everything

3. Acquiring a positive attitude is most important, even if it might not be so easy when your job is at risk, or when don’t have a job. You have to act as the gatekeeper of your mind and refuse entrance to thoughts about self-pity, failure and lack, and let in only thoughts about success and growth. You might say that it is like cheating yourself, but it looks this way only in the beginning. Before long, your subconscious mind will accept the new reality you are creating in your mind, and will work overtime to make it be true, if only you let it, and don’t revert to negative and pessimistic thinking. The Secret of Change

4. Stay away from people who keep complaining. Don’t listen to the whiners and complainers and don’t get involved in their theories. Just because they are negative or failing does not mean you will too. Stay away from negative people, and don’t let them suck your energy or distract you from your goals. Cut on the time reading the papers and watching or listening to the news. Surround yourself with positive people, who expect success. Tips on How to Change

5. Read books about people who achieved success and accomplished their goals. Focus on your life as you would like them to be, and not as they are now. Focus on what you want, and get busy working on making it come true. Refuse to allow into your mind mental images of hard times and of the life you don’t really want. Focus on mental images and scenes of what you want to happen. Be positive, but be also practical, keep an open mind, take action and do things. Tips on How to Change, continued

6. Even in the direst of economic and financial conditions there is a way out and up. There are people who fell really hard and deep down, and yet, got up on their feet and climbed again. You can do so too. This might require some effort and time on your part. Why invest your time and energy in thoughts and attitude that will only hurt you, when you can direct the same energy and time to ways that will benefit you? There are many books on the market that can help you gain a positive attitude and teach you how to improve your life. Take the initiative and search them and you will find them. Remember….. Written and Posted by Remez Sasson