The Power of Positive Thinking

How It Changes Your Outlook and Outcome

Ben Neyen
Performance Course
3 min readJun 6, 2024

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Positive thinking is more than just saying “yes you can.” It is a powerful way of thinking that can transform the way we view the world around us and mold our outcomes in life. By having an intentional, positive outlook, you can experience multiple positive outcomes that will improve your everyday life.

Positive Thinking

Your thoughts and attitudes play a huge role in shaping your emotions and behaviors. Positive thinking can change outcomes in any situation that you’re involved in. If you focus on the good in situations, then a more positive outcome will be the result.

If you focus on the negative in the situation, a negative outcome will be a result. You have to be optimistic in situations good or bad. Having a positive and optimistic mindset can help reduce your stress, open up your mind to more creativity and help keep you calm to become a better problem solver. Keep a positive mindset and good things will come.

Positive Thinking and the Effect on Outlook

Positive thinking will greatly impact the way we see and interpret events that happen in our lives. When facing tough situations, the people with positive mindsets are the ones most likely to observe, think, and come up with a solution. People with a negative mindset or ones who will blame others, dwell on situations, and tend to overthink bad outcomes that haven’t even happened.

Positive thinking can and will change outcomes in any situation that you find yourself in. Take a moment, see what’s going on, don’t overreact, and don’t let your emotions get the best of you. Stay positive and good things always come your way at one point or another.

Athletes who usually have a positive mindset or positive thinking, are usually the ones that take bad situations and use them to their advantage to overcome their adversity. For example, an athlete who endures a major injury will take this opportunity not to dwell, but to use this as a bounce back to prove to others that they still got it. They are the ones that will push themselves to no limits. No excuses. No time wasted. These are the people who usually have great careers and successful lives.

The Positive Influence on Outcome

The power of positive thinking goes beyond an outlook and a mindset. It will guide you to outcomes that you wouldn’t believe would come true. People with positive mindsets are more likely to pursue bigger goals, more success, and a happier, healthier lifestyle.

Those thinkers will take challenges head-on with confidence, desire, and consistency. They are the ones that will see an opportunity for growth in any setbacks or failures. The setbacks and failures motivate them to want to overcome any negative outcome or setbacks. These are the people that won’t take no for an answer.

Conclusion

Surround yourself with like-minded people to achieve like-minded things. High achievers who are determined do not like lazy or undetermined people. Take time each day to assess how your day went. See what you could’ve done better, look back at any moment that you thought negatively impacted you and you could’ve turned it into a positive outcome. Reflect on the choices and reactions you made in certain situations. If you change your mindset to a positive mindset, expect there to be more positivity and more success in your life.

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