Want to listen to your negative internal chatter? Or you wish to try? Mindset is magical, it just turns the tables. Decide what state of mind you want to be. I can’t has I can in it just the way I don’t has an I do in it.
As the saying goes, ‘Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.’ Our thoughts make us who we are. We can choose to see the glass half empty or half full. Every problem we encounter doesn’t seem huge at first. But it surely becomes gigantic if we hold on to it for long. The longer we hold, the greater the stress. Very often we discard things that we’ve been hearing since childhood and dismiss them as untrue. ‘Mind over matter’ is true!
Overcoming challenges has always been a mental game. Tricky situations and ambiguous roads are the real boulders we need to get past. Our beliefs define us. Most of the times, when we encounter a problem, our first reaction is either to submit and give up or to jump up to a solution. We normally do not follow the tendency of reaching the root cause. We just want to provide a symptomatic relief to the problem, which is superficial and temporary. As a result, the chances of the problem resurfacing become very high and we fall back into the trap again. It is essential that we define the problem first, get to the reasons that have caused it in the first place and then generate possible solutions to the problem. This way we get rid of the problem in the first instance.
Out attitude to win or lose matters. Haven’t we heard of cases where a patient recovers from a fatal disease or an accident by virtue of his will-power? That is evidence of a resolute mind. It is very critical to harness the power of our mind and use it to our advantage. When we face a major trouble, the mind automatically starts thinking of why has the incident happened, why am I affected, why not someone else. The trouble starts becoming an obstacle to a normal life and we start to drown in it. The tendency of our minds getting affected severely by problems makes us fall into the trap of mistaking such thoughts for truth.
There is no problem so big in life that cannot be sorted. It just needs a strong mind, a positive approach and will power. If we train our mind well, there is really nothing that we can’t win over.