“If you put negative thoughts into your mind, you’re going to get negative results. It’s just as true that if you put positive thoughts in your mind, you will be a recipient of positive results.”
– Lou Holtz, Two-Time National Coach of the Year and Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
When you embrace positive thinking, you must prepare yourself for the naysayers. They’ll call you naïve. They’ll call you a Pollyanna. They’ll poke fun at your optimistic outlook. They’ll tell you to be more realistic.
But the reason so many top coaches, athletes, and high achievers choose to buy into positive thinking despite what they naysayers say is simple: positive thinking works.
Study after study has proven that positive thinkers get more done, enjoy more happiness, have more positive relationships, make more money, and live healthier lives. In the sports world, positive thinkers find a way to win more often than their pessimistic rivals.
Trendy opinions on whether positive thinking works or not really don’t matter. What matters is the results produced by positive thinking. As Lou Holtz states in the above quote, positive thoughts lead to positive results.
Who cares if choosing to think positive makes you a target for the pessimists? It’s the results that matter. If positive thinking has been proven to make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and more victorious, why should you care what anyone else tries to say about it?
Protect your mindset. Don’t listen to the cynics who love to point out failures, tragedies, and defeats. Complainers, excuse-makers, and negative thinkers have plenty of negative results to complain about—and perhaps that should tell you something.
Positive thinking leads to positive results. It’s been proven again and again. Remember that the next time someone tries to put you down for being an optimist.
Results don’t lie and the results are on the side of the positive thinker, not the pessimist.
THINK LIKE A CHAMPION:
“Positive thinking leads to positive results and I choose to attack life with a positive, can-do attitude.”
