Self Worth, Positivity and State of Mind

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So it is Sunday morning at about 7am and I'm sitting here listening to Coldplay (green eyes)- ya that concert a few weeks ago really kicked some butt. I can't wait to watch Tiger rampage the course in the PGA Championship later today as well. It's been a while since I've written something useful ...so I might as well go for it.

So I was reading a couple self- help books/articles in the past while and found what they had to say really interesting and of course it got me thinking. I actually found myself agreeing with most of it.

So the articles were essentially saying that your place in life (economic/social) is determined by your state of mind and self-worth. A couple examples, if you grew up with less in your life you may believe that is what you actually deserve and sabotage the positive things that you achieve. Thinking subconsciously you don't deserve these things in your life. Happiness, success, wealth!?!? So rather then trying to achieve the life you deserve, you end up sabotaging the positive things in your life or the cool life you already have/or could obtain.

I think it boils down to self- worth/confidence, if we value the person that we are or want to become then we will always strive to be a better person. It means thinking you deserve the best for yourself. And before anyone jumps the gun on that one ... I think the best for yourself is a realistic perception of the things/people/status you want in your life, rather then the crazed glamour & glitz version of life that the media portrays of a successful life on a daily basis. All that is really important is lifelong happiness, whatever that may be for the individual person.

Some people are really good at bringing out the best in themselves/other people and achieving their goals in a short span of time, other people take longer to find out who they really are and what they want. But both roads go to the same destination in the end. I for one belong in that latter group, I've always had multiple talents but could never figure out which direction to lean, even now I'm not fully where I need/want to be yet... but that is Okkkkkay.

Achieving your desires in life I view as more of an evolutionary process rather then a snap my fingers and it will happen now type approach. Lets put it this way, if I was already where I wanted to be... then I would have missed out on all the life lessons I've been taught/or rather that have been thrown in my direction. These lessons from other people/experiences have helped me to become a stronger person with more conviction and belief in my self then I've had at any point in my life, so YES life lessons are a really good thing believe it or not.

Hmmm how does it feel right now? It feels like you really want something, you are pretty sure you can achieve it and think you want to share it with people. But in order to do this, your head needs to be in the right place, you must build yourself into the person that can achieve those things, even if that means sacrificing things that would give you great pleasure at the present moment. I think that everyone feels this at some point.

So yes, I must agree with those articles saying that your self-worth/the way you value yourself, and your state of mind impact what you shall achieve in life or your level of happiness. And yes I still believe that a big aspect of achieving and weeding out those negative aspects in your life can be done by just flat out thinking positively. If you can find the positive in even the worst/most tragic moments in your life, imagine the internal strength you could muster to achieve the things you want the most (socially, financially, emotionally). I spoke about this in detail here and it is worth a read: http://wordonthestreetto.blogspot.com/2009/05/power-of-positivity.html. I'm a big believer that we all have the capacity to think/do/create amazing things, it just comes down to if we decide to fully apply ourselves or not and can create the right physical/mental environment to achieve results.