Motivation Monday Just Stay Positive

Motivation Monday Just Stay Positive I had to laugh out loud.   I was watching TV and saw a program talking about how to reduce stress.   Their advice stay positive! Image from stopstressingnow.com Are you kidding me? If I cant reduce stress in my life, how in the world am I going to be able to stay positive?   The two go hand and hand.   Both are equally elusive.   If I could flip a switch and be positive, wouldnt I do that?   Come on people.     We need more than this type of help.   We need actionable steps that will us to feel positive! Here are some of my thoughts for actions that can lead to a better state of mind: Learn something new. Read, take online classes, enroll in a community college Theres nothing better than stimulating the brain.   Ive written about professional development before, here is a link to Finding Professional Development Ops Part 2. Here are some additional options for online learning: AcademicEarth.org Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class  education. iTunes U iTunes U â€" a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours â€" is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students. KhanAcademy.org With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, were on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace. Help Others Whether it is volunteering through an organization or offering help to a friend, family member or neighbor, helping others takes the focus off of us!   Give selflessly to others. Exercise and Eat Right When our bodies feel good, so do our brains!   A walk, yoga, swimming. What are you doing regularly to get you blood pumping (or at least flowing)!? Im not the best at following my own advice here, but I know when I do walk, I feel so much better after.   Hmmm, this could be because I walk with a friend who lets me dump my junkeither way, it works! If you arent eating the right food, your body wont perform the way it should.   Come on, you know this. Have on hand   healthier whole foods so you wont be tempted by the large slab of carrot cake in the fridge.   (Another laughable infomercial snippet from this weekend). Taking care of yourself- mind, body and spirit, is certainly work, but so worth the end results!