Daily Positive Quotes on PositiveThinkingWins' Instagram

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to let you know about Positive Thinking Wins' Instagram, where I am posting positive quotes daily! So if you want a dose of positivity every day, feel free to follow it! :D 

Click here to visit the page, I've put a couple of my posts below! 

Love, Chey x  

- Positive Thinking Wins –

 

 

Tips On How To Become Happier!: #4- Forgive

I've recently learnt the importance of letting go of past experiences that still cause you to feel negative in any way.  These experiences happened in the past, therefore, holding on to any negativity that they caused you is only doing damage to yourself.  The only thing that can make you start feeling better about them is if you allow yourself to let go.

Letting go is particularly important when it involves someone who has hurt you in the past. You may be waiting for them to apologise but what if this never happens? Will you be holding on to the negativity that they caused you forever? You may not be able to control other people's thoughts and  actions but you can definitely control yours. Therefore, if that apology is not on its way, try your best to accept that and let go of the situation because holding on to it won't bring you any good.

The amazing author Louise Hay taught me the importance of  truly forgiving others for their actions against you in her book 'You Can Heal Your Life'. This can be very difficult to do, and is something that I still struggle with but once you truly forgive someone, you feel so much better within yourself.   This may be challenging because sometimes the person that hurt you may not even feel that they did anything wrong. However, your forgiveness will help you. This is because holding anger against someone is hurting you the most, it is affecting your moods, which then affects your whole day. Forgiving them is a way of allowing yourself to feel better, and therefore, happier.

It can be difficult to know how to start forgiving someone. One thing that has helped me is trying to understand things from their point of view and accept that not everybody thinks the same as me. You can start doing this too by attempting to think of reasons why that person did what they did, even if you don't believe these reasons are justifiable. For example, if someone has betrayed you, try to think of the relationships that they've had with other people and whether they have been trustworthy. Consider that they may have never had a trustworthy relationship with anyone which could be a possible reason for their behaviour. I'm not saying to create excuses for them, it's simply a way of making the forgiveness process easier for you.

Also, do not feel afraid to forgive yourself for past mistakes that you've made. Nobody's perfect and everyone's done things that they feel they shouldn't have and many people continue to hold guilt about them every day. If you've done everything you can to try to put that situation right, then there's nothing else you can do and it's time to let go of the situation and forgive yourself.

Forgiveness involves releasing so much negativity from your life and replacing it with positivity and is bound to make you much happier within yourself.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post and that this series of posts have helped you! More posts in my 'Tips On How To Become Happier' series are coming up!

- Positive Thinking Wins -

Love, Chey x 

Tips On How To Become Happier!: #3- Be Grateful

You may not have everything you want in life but when you are grateful for the things you do have instead of dwelling on those you don't, life becomes much more enjoyable. 

Something I remind myself of when I'm not feeling in the best of moods is that things could always be worse. The fact that you are still alive and breathing is a fact that you should be grateful for because that means that there's time for situations in your life to improve.

We're all guilty of getting caught up and frustrated about little things such as having to wait longer than expected for the food you ordered or needing to re-schedule plans with a friend because they cancelled at the last minute. Something useful to practice when you find yourself doing this is thinking about what you are grateful for about the situation instead. For example, the fact that you can afford to order the food in the first place or that you have a friend to make plans with.  It's easy to become so used to having these things and forget that there are others who are desperate to have them too. 

When you focus on being grateful for everything in you life, you start to truly appreciate the life you have, which automatically leads you to becoming happier.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post and you have taken something from it! More posts in this 'Tips On How To Become Happier!' series are coming up! The next will be posted next Sunday :D Have a lovely week!

- Positive Thinking Wins - 

Love, Chey  x

Tips On How To Become Happier!: #2- Focus On Getting To Know Yourself

I already posted about The Importance Of Getting To Know Yourself  but I wanted to write more about it in this series of posts because it's such an important part of becoming happier. 

Around 5 months ago, I made the decision to really start focussing on getting to know myself by actually studying myself and it was the best decision I could have made. The book 'You Can Heal Your Life' by Louise Hay  played a great part in my journey as it taught me more about my thoughts and how they have influenced my life. I also joined an online community called Amazers and started taking part in personal challenges which helped my self-development. For example, I took part  in a challenge set by Suli Breaks called 'Create Yourself' which led to my  purpose becoming clearer to me.   

Something  that you can do in order to start off your journey to getting to know yourself  better is take the time to reflect on yourself as a person. For example, you can ask yourself questions such as, "What are my qualities?", "What would I like to become better at?", "What do I enjoy doing the most?" and "Which parts of my personality do I love and which parts do I want to work on?" It's good to record your answers to these questions  in some way so that you can keep track of your progress. Doing this is bound to lead you to learning more about yourself and how you can develop as a person. 

I can assure you that once you know yourself better, you will start becoming so much happier as in order to be completely happy, you need to be happy with  the person you currently are.

Thanks so much for reading my post, I hope it has helped you. More posts in the 'Tips On How To Become Happier!' series are coming up! Please let me know if these posts have helped you in any way :D 

- Positive Thinking Wins -

Love, Chey x 

Tips On How To Become Happier!: #1- Develop A More Positive Mindset

If you want to become happier but are unsure of which changes to make in order to, I suggest the first thing you do is become more aware of your thoughts.  One thought can lead to you feeling a certain emotion, which then leads to you performing certain behaviours. Therefore, one single thought that you have in the morning can affect your whole day.  If that thought is positive then it is likely to lead to a  positive emotion which is then likely to lead you to behaving in positive ways and therefore, attract more positivity into your life. Whereas, if this thought is negative,  the exact opposite happens. 

Something that I have done in order to help myself develop a more positive mindset, is say 10  statements about myself and/or my life  that I am grateful for when I wake up in the morning and 10 before I go to sleep at night.  For example, "I have a healthy family, I have enough food to eat, I have somewhere to live" etc. This is a way of ensuring that every day begins and ends positively, nothing negative can come out of it and it can help you so much. 

You can also start keeping note of the types of thoughts you have throughout  the day and whether the majority of them are positive or negative and how they have affected your day.  After you reflect on this, you can make a decision about whether you need to work on your mindset and the different ways you could do this.

I hope you liked reading the first post in my new series of posts called  'Tips On How To Become Happier!' and it has helped you, Tip #2 will be published next Sunday :D 

- Positive Thinking Wins -

Love, Chey x 

New Series Of Posts: Tips On How To Become Happier!

Hey everyone! I hope 2015's been great to you all so far!

 I've spent the last year focussing on working on myself in order for me to develop as a person and reach a higher level of happiness. I have learnt  SO much already during this process and I'm sure I will learn a lot more in the future. With the amount of progress I've made, it's only right for me to share what I've learnt about becoming happier with you. Therefore, I have decided to create a series of posts called 'Tips On How To Become Happier'. Each post in this series will focus on something that has helped me on my journey to becoming happier with the hope that you can use my tips to help yourself. The first post in the series will be published tomorrow at 12pm :D

It's important for me to mention that I will talk about the things that worked for me, therefore, it may be necessary for you to adapt my tips to suit yourself, depending on the type of person you are and what you find effective. I hope you enjoy reading this new series of posts and please let me know if they've helped.
 

- Positive Thinking Wins -

Love, Chey x  

Happy New Year! (2015)

Hey everyone! 

I want to wish you a very happy new year! I hope you achieve all your goals for this year and it is filled with amazing, positive experiences! 

Last New Year's Eve, I wrote down all of the things I wanted to achieve during the year and when I looked back at what I wrote this morning, I realised I achieved at least part of everything I wanted to :D The feeling I got when ticking off my achievements was amazing and made me realise just how much of a successful year 2014 was for me. This is something that I recommend that you do this year because it is a great way of realising what you want out of life and the steps you can take to make sure you get there. 

 If you went through a lot of difficult times last year, please remember that you got through them or are currently getting through them! I believe that we can all learn so much from going through negative experiences and I like to see them as ways of developing ourselves. They may not be great to go through at the time, but there are no words to express how you feel when you look back and realise the positive things you've gained due to them! 

I hope 2015 is a great year for you, think positively and positive things will happen! 

- Positive Thinking Wins -

Love, Chey x