The power of Optimism

What if there was a way to expand your mind to see greater opportunities?

When people think of having a positive attitude, they tend to think of keeping a smile on their faces and thinking only positive thoughts. But it’s more than that.

Staying positive in the face of adversity, is a valuable skill. When things go well, it is easy to stay positive, but when everything seems like an uphill battle, it can be emotionally and physically draining, dampening one’s spirit and their efficiency.

If you add the Covid-19 factor in, staying positive can sometimes feel like an absolute struggle.

Having a positive attitude will change how people see you. Being negative all the time can rub off on everyone else. Why be the person who drags everyone down, when you can be the beacon of light for your co-workers and lift everyone’s spirits?

Or to put it another way: Would you like to be surrounded by colleagues with negative mentalities who look at their lives and their positions with disdain? Or would you like to be around those working towards success, and growing from their disappointments?”

Give it a thought.

As the Dalai Lama said, “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” When you fill your mind with positive thoughts, you will be able to reflect that out on other people and your surroundings.

Preaching positivity is easy but embodying it is more challenging. Start by creating self-awareness: understand what triggers your negative thoughts. Once you figure that out you’ll be better able to have a positive attitude.

Studies tell that showing a positive attitude is all about your demeanour.

It’s human to give more thought to the negative things in our lives and less focus on the good things. We are surrounded by negativity and our brain is hardwired to direct our focus to the negative thoughts.

One way to increase positivity could be to avoid complaining.

If you think there are a lot of changes happening that at your workplace, don’t just resort to speaking negatively about what’s going on. Don’t just look at how it might affect you adversely.

Consider change, even if it involves challenges, to be something worth being thankful for that prompts development and accomplishment for the business as well as for you personally.

Remember this – there is opportunity in the biggest challenges – the opportunity to get better. And that, in the end, is an essential part of the human experience: the chance for self-development.

And looking at what we can control, our silver linings – that is what will help us see opportunities instead of problems.

Rebel towards life.

The feeling when you come back home after a sapping day and you realise how lonely you are, because you have nobody.

The feeling when you know that all you have at this point is yourself, because you have nobody.

The feeling when you can’t do anything but just accompany your soul by your thoughts, because you have nobody.

The feeling when you had a tough day and you need somebody to listen to your rants about how perturbed you are but you cannot, because you have nobody.

The feeling when you need a shoulder  to cry and a tight hug and a moment of affection, but you have nobody.

And after feeling all these emotions when you finally stand ceaseless, that is the moment of truth, the moment when you realise no matter who stays and who leaves, if you can control your emotions and hold your feelings, nobody can ever break you because my friend you are a REBEL – A rebel towards life.

Tranquillity

Since I belong to a family where I’ve seen my dad travelling now and then due to his journalism profession, I was kind of or probably very beguiled by the idea of travelling. 

I would preferably find my career in travelling rather than being in some ho-hum kind of a corporate job, where you have to complete your 9 to 5 shift every freaking day and still strive for promotion. Actually, I desire to travel every nook and corner of the world but I still have a long way to go, as so i believe in this wise old saying ” A dream doesn’t become reality through magic, it takes sweat determination and hard work” so definitely I’ll have to work towards it completely.

How happy I was, oh! And the one in green is my sister.

I was fortunate enough to get a chance to experience the beauty and serenity of one of the most beautiful hill stations in India, Manali. It is amidst the mountains with  captivating views, the enthralling beas river, the abiding redolence of the pines and every little thing that could make you feel in heaven. I have this affinity for places like this. I was there with my family and some of my closest cousins, so the trip just became merrier. 

The evenings in Manali were like none others, it was a totally different feeling, a good one though infact the happiest one. The streets of manali, the cute little eateries, everything was so good. The most ecstatic moment was when I sat on the banks of the beas river, the sound of the gushing waters of the river, the fog surrounding the area and the amazing picturesque made me feel like I was dreaming, a dream i would never want to wake up from. 

BE YOU..

I’m Ambika Srivastava,19 years old, not through with my graduation yet, trying to study hard to fulfill my not so consequential dreams. This is my very first blog. Honestly speaking I have no idea how a blog has to be written but ‘it is never too late to start’, so I’m trying my hands on writing. Have you ever had this feeling of being completely vulnerable? As if things were never in your favour nor would they ever be, just totally broken and crestfallen. I’ll tell you, though I haven’t been through so much, maybe many of you have had such phases which might have ripped you apart, but I was a person who was a total fusspot and completely nebbish and i have outgrown so many unimportant things in my life. All those people who have had bad experiences, or lost somebody very close to their heart, have had roughest times of their lives, let me tell you you are strong, stronger than the most of us and can surmount anything in life be it your fears, your hard times or anything. I was a  person who believed in fairytale ideas and somewhere I still do and I’m very sure most of you do, but how sure are you about them being fulfilled? I loved the idea of falling in love and somehow I did fall in love with a person who could never love me back, a treacherous kind he was, all that while he gave me hopes of being loved back and cheated on me but never did my hopes got light and the saddest part is to know that you will never be loved by the person you love. But it’s okay you know, you cannot force somebody to love you back. But trust me behind all this bad that happened to me was a good part, now I have a better person in my life who is proud to be with me, as I was always conscious about every inch and tone of mine, he made be realise how beautiful I was, he not only accepted my flaws but started loving them too, he made me love myself first and him later, it’s good to know how one person can make such a huge difference in your life. Find a person who loves your soul and everything about you and not just your body. Surround yourself with positive people and let go the negative ones. Accept critisms and surmount them in a positive manner. Love yourself first and believe me you’ll start seeing things with a totally different perspective yet a happy one.