HJ: Nothing is inherently good or bad—it’s what you make of it that determines how it affects you. Succumbing to negative thoughts makes them negative, but using them to accelerate your growth makes transforms them into a positive opportunity for growth and expansion… and the people who master this process almost always become wildly successful and happy to boot…
– Truth
7 Ways to Learn from Your Negative Thoughts
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~Plutarch
I remember when I first learned about “positive thinking.” I was to observe my thoughts, then sort them into “useful” and “not useful.”
This made sense to me, and it surprised me how many “not useful” thoughts I encountered. On a daily basis, I was telling myself that I was not good enough, that things could never work out, and that I was on the verge of being fired from my job.
