Time for Some Positive Thinking and Self-Talk  If you will it, it is not a dream- Herzl

I have played the negative tapes in my head too long and to much ill effect. It's time to change those tapes and replace them with something more positive. In some ways, I have been almost proud of my negativity, only I framed it as being a realist. I was only being pragmatic.

The problem is that negativity can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. "I don't deserve that", "I can't do that", "I'll never have that" ... all these things might well be true and there is a good chance I'll ensure that everything will come to pass exactly as I predict if I stick with my current way of looking at the world,.

On the other hand I have nothing at all to lose by looking at life as full of possibilities, of not knowing my limitations, and by believing that things will turn out better than okay in most cases. The worse that can happen is a little disappointment along the way. The best that can happen? well if I leave my life open for possibility of the best happening, I am keeping alive the possibility it might happen. By believing good things are possible, I might be inclined to work for them, and when you work for something, stranger things have happened than success.