SOAR TO SUCCESS / Personal Growth Strategies we can control who we willingly spend our time with. Remember the Earl Nightingale quote: “You become the average of the five people you hang aroundwith.”Avoidpeoplewhodrainyour energy and your mood and stick to true-blue friends who are satisfying to be around. When suffering from being down and anxious, many times it pays to forgive people who have done you wrong. Holding on to grudges and feeling hatred toward people can make you feel worse. Letting go of these negative feelings can help you learn how to feel more positive both toward yourself and toward others. Treat yourself with compassion. Give yourself grace. Have you ever seen someone yell at themselves when they make a mistake? Have you ever thrown a golf club after a bad swing? Being so hard on yourself can push you deeper down the anxiety spiral. Treat yourself with love and compassion, like you would treat a friend or a small child. Remind yourself that everyonemakes mistakes, and remember, that we all learn more from our failures than we do from our successes. In view of the increasing negative events happening around the world here are five things you can do to help you stay positive. 1. Take a news sabbatical. Listening to the news can be downright depressing. All bad news all of the time can drag you down and keep you there. Give yourself permission to stop listening to the news, especially before bedtime. 2. Use your influence to do good where you live. Shift your focus from what is happening in other parts of the world to your community. Get involved in making a positive change or contribution. 3. Focus on what is working in your life. Choose one thing that you are grateful for and focus on it for the rest of the day. 4. Express your appreciation toothers. You can create a positive world one person at a time by saying thank you every chance you get to everyone you interact with – from the person who holds open a door for you, to your child who does a chore, to a cherished friend or loved one. 5. Focus on what you can change, let go of what you can’t change. When faced with a distressing situation ask yourself if you can control over the events. If you do, change what you can. If you don’t, learn to let it go and move on. You have much more control over how you feel than you might realize. Get off the couch and connect with other positive people in your community and make the commitment to be the kind of person that brightens the roomwhen you walk in versus the person who makes the room brighter by leaving. You have much more control over how you feel than you might realize.
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