The Power of Positive Attitude
- Introduction: What Brings Us Down
- Case Study: The impact of our surroundings
- Why we let things “get to us”
- Focusing on the Positive
- Accomplishments exercise
- Translating strengths, talents and value into positive thinking
- Exercise: Switching to “Now Focus”
- Case Study: Playing with Words (a terrific tools for thinking positively)
- Understanding Positive and Negative Thinking
- Case Study: Triggers that cause negativity or defensiveness
- Understanding biochemical reactions in our body
- Defeating adrenaline, cortisol, and other chemicals that try to bring us down
- Eight strategies for regaining a positive attitude
- Exercise: Five minute self-meditation
- Proactive Positive Thinking
- Understanding our body’s reactive, adaptive, and proactive responses to the external environment
- Case Study: Moving our approach from reactive to proactive
- Tips to remain positive, in proactive mode, continuously
- Using self-motivation to keep us upbeat continuously
- Video – The Humor Perspective: A lifestyle of positive thinking
- Action plan: Making positive thinking a reactive and proactive way of life
