Today was going to be a good day. My roommate believes that whenever the elevator is already on the third floor and she doesn't have to wait around for it, it's going to be a good day. I believe that whenever I don't have to run like a crazy woman with a flying laptop bag, that's when it's a good day. Well this morning not only did both of those situations happen, they happened to us together, obviously doubling our good day-ness.
My actual day? Good. :)
I've truly started to embrace the power of positive thinking. It's something that has affected me in the last few weeks tremendously. Our brains are amazing. The layers and layers of neurons and synapses and axons and fibers are actually layers and layers of thoughts and memories and knowledge and dreams.
We often forget this. I mean we don't technically forget to think per say, but we forget to really examine what think subconsciously. I used never to be able to fall asleep until I thought and thought and thought about something deeply, whether it was about a subject in school, or something that happened to me that, or if it was about my grandparents all the way across the ocean, or if it was about a fantasy of some sort of success. These days, my brain feels dead. It's almost as if I didn't want to analyze the little details of life, the purpose behind, why something might happen, fate, love, whatever it may have been.
Then a few weeks ago, I hit a low. I realized that I focused too much on just getting things done. I'd forgotten WHY I was doing what I was doing. Why was going to class (or lack there of)? Why was I a part of AIESEC? Why did I want to be the president? Why, why, why damn it?
Once I remembered to be curious and inquisitive and normal again, I felt more ... get ready for some cheesiness... I felt more alive again. I felt myself breathing, I felt the oxygen running to my neurons, sending positive messages through the axons to other neurons, anyway, I don't want to get into the neuroscience of it, but pretty much, I started thinking more positively.
I said to myself, I can do this, not because I have to do it, but because I want to do it. And I want to do it because I want to make a difference in future. I want to advocate and encourage and help companies understand the importance of the Earth, the environment, all of our natural resources. That is why I am going to class (yes I'm actually going to class!). I need to make cold calls and send out a gazillion emails because AIESEC is going help me succeed in whatever I end up doing. These are the skills that I need to master now because in the future no one's gonna give a second, or third chance. And I want to be president for a hell of a lot of different reasons. It's because I want to grow as a person, as a leader, as a student, as a professional. I want to have the experience, I want to be able to say that I've done something amazing. I want to do this as practice for when I own my own company. But most of all, I want people to know who I am, I want people to recognize AIESEC Minneapolis as a strong, determined, successful Local Committee that even on the verge of disbandment rose up and not just overcame, but empowered.
So, enough about me, and back to the title subject. The power of positive thinking, it creates a sense of clarity, it gives a goal to reach towards, it makes tedious tasks bearable, and it makes everyone else around you a little happier. And at the end of the day, we are all in the 'Pursuit of Happiness'.
My actual day? Good. :)
I've truly started to embrace the power of positive thinking. It's something that has affected me in the last few weeks tremendously. Our brains are amazing. The layers and layers of neurons and synapses and axons and fibers are actually layers and layers of thoughts and memories and knowledge and dreams.
We often forget this. I mean we don't technically forget to think per say, but we forget to really examine what think subconsciously. I used never to be able to fall asleep until I thought and thought and thought about something deeply, whether it was about a subject in school, or something that happened to me that, or if it was about my grandparents all the way across the ocean, or if it was about a fantasy of some sort of success. These days, my brain feels dead. It's almost as if I didn't want to analyze the little details of life, the purpose behind, why something might happen, fate, love, whatever it may have been.
Then a few weeks ago, I hit a low. I realized that I focused too much on just getting things done. I'd forgotten WHY I was doing what I was doing. Why was going to class (or lack there of)? Why was I a part of AIESEC? Why did I want to be the president? Why, why, why damn it?
Once I remembered to be curious and inquisitive and normal again, I felt more ... get ready for some cheesiness... I felt more alive again. I felt myself breathing, I felt the oxygen running to my neurons, sending positive messages through the axons to other neurons, anyway, I don't want to get into the neuroscience of it, but pretty much, I started thinking more positively.
I said to myself, I can do this, not because I have to do it, but because I want to do it. And I want to do it because I want to make a difference in future. I want to advocate and encourage and help companies understand the importance of the Earth, the environment, all of our natural resources. That is why I am going to class (yes I'm actually going to class!). I need to make cold calls and send out a gazillion emails because AIESEC is going help me succeed in whatever I end up doing. These are the skills that I need to master now because in the future no one's gonna give a second, or third chance. And I want to be president for a hell of a lot of different reasons. It's because I want to grow as a person, as a leader, as a student, as a professional. I want to have the experience, I want to be able to say that I've done something amazing. I want to do this as practice for when I own my own company. But most of all, I want people to know who I am, I want people to recognize AIESEC Minneapolis as a strong, determined, successful Local Committee that even on the verge of disbandment rose up and not just overcame, but empowered.
So, enough about me, and back to the title subject. The power of positive thinking, it creates a sense of clarity, it gives a goal to reach towards, it makes tedious tasks bearable, and it makes everyone else around you a little happier. And at the end of the day, we are all in the 'Pursuit of Happiness'.
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