1. Stop Focusing on the Impossibilities
The first step in becoming a possibility thinker is to stop yourself from searching for and dwelling on what’s
wrong with any given situation. Sports psychologist Bob Rotella recounts, “I tell people: If you don’t want to get
into positive thinking, that’s OK. Just eliminate all the negative thoughts from your mind, and whatever’s left will
be fine.”
If possibility thinking is new to you, you’re going to have to give yourself a lot of coaching to eliminate some
of the negative self-talk you may hear in your head. When you automatically start listing all the things that can go
wrong or all the reasons something can’t be done, stop yourself and say, “Don’t go there.” Then ask, “What’s
right about this?” That will help to get you started. And if negativity is a really big problem for you and
pessimistic things come out of your mouth before you’ve even thought them through, you may need to enlist the
aid of a friend or family member to alert you every time you utter negative ideas.
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