Last week my health professor challenges our class to stop complaining for just 24 hour. So I decided to challenge myself not to complain for 24 hours. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be at all. It turns out that I do a lot more complaining than I realized . It wasn't until I started really paying attention to what I was saying and thinking did I start to see how much negatively I was actually putting out. For the most part, these are tiny things- phrases like “why did I even sign up for Friday class" and " I just want to go home." Every time you complain, you're putting negative energy into your life. That is something you definitely don't want to be doing if you're striving to live more positively. The more you complain, the less space you leave for positive thoughts. As I made it through the 24 hours of attempting, it became very clear to me that I needed to change some of my thoughts and habits in order to create a more positive mind to myself. I thought about how I could avoid from bringing negative thoughts in my mind. The first complaint I notice myself uttering during this 24 hour challenge was this morning how much i didn’t …show more content…
In my mind, I was dreading the art sculpture which I had to do for my 3-D design class which the professor assign the project today. which she mention during last week lecture. I was complaining on the amount of money I’m going waste for materials. In order to complete my assignment. In addition, I will be completing my project the night before the test. Even the art professor gave the class three weeks to work on it. These things weren't even happening and I was already complaining about them. I soon discovered when I pulled my mind back to the present moment, I had a lot of less to complain
On the first day, I went for about twenty minutes before cracking a joke at my best friend. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary for me, but I actually stopped and thought about the possible consequences of my actions. Breakthrough! I went for another twenty minutes, most likely, before making some sort of snide comment, though. Oops.
If someone thinks negatively towards something the outcome will not be good, and vice versa. Thinking you can achieve the American dream is a major key in doing so, and some Americans are already on the right track. In the U.S., a survey showed that 36 percent of Americans say they have achieved the dream, and another 46 percent believe they are on the path of achieving it. It is not so easy, though, to always look on the bright side. Sometimes it seems as if nothing is going right; that is when negativity occurs. People can argue that mindset has little impact on the outcome, or that it does not matter how positive a person is because some things are just not meant to be. An article, however, proves this wrong. The paper argues how negative emotions prevent humans from flourishing; it also states, “if your ratio of positive to negative emotions is greater than 2.9013 to one, you will flourish both physically and psychologically.” If a person believes in themselves, they are more likely to accomplish their
One of the few steps that have helped me immensely are step 1, step 5, step 9 and step 17. Each of these steps has their own way changing a person’s perspective. The first step says we are required to observe our behavior; does what we say affect us in a negative or positive way? What we need to analyze is whether or not we are subconsciously insulting someone or are they offended by what we said? We need to think before we speak, and that is a problem for some people, including me, I am a social extrovert and occasionally I may make impulsive responses and won’t realize what I said before I realize someone did not like what I said. However, that is when step 5 comes into place, it talks about reviewing our responses in order to see our thought process and what were some strengths. Another is to practice positive thoughts one thing we need to keep in mind, we need to be assertive with ourselves, at times we can be our worst enemy so being self-motivated can help you in the long run by having confidence and how others with positive conversations. Additionally, with positive reinforcements comes rewards, the last step, says it is important to provide ourselves ongoing support and receive a reward for asserting ourselves this way we can have encouragement at the end of our
I first considered a public health career when I interned at the Ghana Health Service Family Health Department as an undergraduate student. Participating in national meetings focused on strategies to reduce maternal mortality in Ghana, I recognized that, in order to create sustainable advances, it is crucial to address the underlying social inequalities that exacerbate adverse health outcomes. To advance this goal, I am seeking admission into the Global Health and Population Doctoral Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.
I had a month to submit my research paper, so I didn’t have to start doing it right away. Surprisingly, I put it off for 27 days and now I only had 3 days to finish it. Knowing the due date was near; I jumped up on my table and started to write. Unfortunately, I couldn’t believe that choosing a tiny topic for my paper was a challenging task for me. Then, I decided to work on it another day. Only 2 days were left for the deadline, it was Sunday, so I had to go to work and came home late at night, too tired to use my brain for anything. Just 1 day remaining, today I had 2 classes and came back home late again, so I had to fill my stomach up before starting the paper. Finally, I had to spend all night for picking a topic, finding information and
How much time do you spend thinking about tomorrow or yesterday while not thinking about today? Constantly dwelling on the past or dreaming about the future prevents you from experiencing happiness today. Spending too much time thinking about the job you lost last year or the vacation your planning next year will prevent having happiness now. Enjoying each moment of a day is one of the most important steps toward having inner fulfillment and happiness. By focusing on the moment, you are able to complete the other essential steps to have complete lifelong happiness.
Self talk is another huge thing that I learned this summer. Along with not knowing that I could control my attitude, I didn’t know that I could talk to myself without being crazy, talk myself into having a better day, talk myself into being more confident, even talk myself into being friendlier. I realized this summer that self talk, is a major game changer. You’re constantly talking to yourself all day, whether you know it or not, and your mind will throw negative, self-doubting thoughts at you, which can consume you, but when you self talk it helps to bring out better thoughts. The positive loud affirmations are so much stronger than the silent evils in your mind. When I self talk constantly, I drown out the silent negative things and fill the world with positive beautiful thoughts of confidence, happiness, dorkiness, and kind of just anything random. Without even realizing it, the things that I am saying I am really starting to believe and get super jacked about. I can go around and talk myself out of a bad mood, which is pretty
You often think that everything boils down to deadlines. If only the tick of the clock is much slower and if deadlines don’t exist, everything would be much easier. Sometimes you blame your failures to somebody or to a circumstance where in fact, the real problem is just the way you perceive stress.
If you don 't like where you are, it 's important to reinvent yourself. If you stay the person you are and keep doing the things you do, and you are not happy, then you are going to stay unhappy until you make some changes. You may convince yourself that life is great once in a while, but more often than not you 'll be disappointed.
...igerence a result of hours of work, the ticking clock yet another deadline, and I could practically feel my teacher’s eyes burning into my back, challenging me to loose control of the situation.
The other dilemma that occurred was that I started to “think” about the good things. This is my nature state of processing. Soon I realized that I need to “feel” the good things if I truly wanted to see how this exercise could offer an alternative impact in my life. Thus, I tried to center my thoughts and push them aside while allowing the feelings to move from second nature to the forefront of my state of mind.
She was a wonderful teacher that went through a lot of information within one day. This in return, made it so you really had to study for the quizzes and homework that she would give out during the week. Now during this time I thought that this class was going to go smoothly and that I would just get it down without any troubles. But that wasn’t the case. I had a really hard time with our weekly quizzes and making sure I got a good grade. So when the teacher asked to talk to me after class I started to panic. This is when I realized that this criticism would help me within her class and make it so I was more successful within the learning experience. So when she pulled me aside she gave me some great tips on how to study for the quizzes and some tools that I could use to make sure I did well within the class. So as you can see criticism is a big part of communication and is
It was at this point, I gained some momentum on the project. I had the task of completing such a large amount of work that doubt still lingered in my mind. Then through some sort of a miracle, I managed to complete the project in time and received an excellent grade on it. The amount of relief that I had once it was all over was indescribable. I promised myself that I would make better choices next time if an assignment like this were to happen again.This experience taught me that hard work is not something to take advantage of. It taught me to supress my complacency so that I could all the more be proficient in my studies. Moreover, this was one obstacle that allowed me to determine whether I gave importance to the advice I was taught in my childhood.. Therefore, I will make better decisions to have a great and happy
Unhappy people are focused on negative things. They can 't see the positive because they are
But looking in the present, I realized that all (technology, health care, social skill and so on) that is here is due to someone dreams of the future, that person took the importance of the present facts of his/her life. My present is influenced by someone desired to change. An expecific example would be the creation of a cell phone which is a result of Reginald Fessenden’s and many technicians (engineers, computer science, psychology and so on) who work for its implementation. I admit to the fear of future plans because I am weekly updating them. I hardly discuss future plans for many reasons, first life is not guaranteed for many years as we hope for.