So often we allow others to take our peace of mind. To project their insecurities and deficiencies upon us. While it would be wonderful to eliminate such downers from our lives, that is not always an option. So the real issue, the one we can always control, is how we will react in response to such attacks.
I’m an emotional person, so quite often my first reaction reads across my face like a headline on a Sunday morning newspaper. However, in recent weeks I rediscovered a tool that I have found quite effective in helping me to maintain my peace of mind regardless of the things I cannot control in life. It is the Optimist Creed.
It is a simple set of affirmations that help you to take responsibility for your own life, happiness and peace of mind. I am trying to focus on one or two of the affirmations each week. The two I’m focusing on during the week ahead:
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
What are your favorite tips and tools for keeping a positive frame of mind, no matter what is happening around you?
Roxanne Ravenel (263 Posts)Roxanne is a freelance journalist and novelist living in North Carolina. Her alter ego, Reese Ryan, writes smart, spicy fiction populated by deliciously flawed, multicultural characters living in the Midwest and Southeast. Her debut novel, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, will be published by Carina Press July 22, 2013. She is Managing Editor of the long-running e-zine, All Things Girl.
Roxanne Ravenel (263 Posts)Roxanne is a freelance journalist and novelist living in North Carolina. Her alter ego, Reese Ryan, writes smart, spicy fiction populated by deliciously flawed, multicultural characters living in the Midwest and Southeast. Her debut novel, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, will be published by Carina Press July 22, 2013. She is Managing Editor of the long-running e-zine, All Things Girl.
)
Roxanne, great post! People are always projecting their insecurities or deficiencies on each other, whether it’s done intentionally or unintentially—it happens. We have to learn when NOT to allow other people’s issues to become our issues.
Also, one of my favorite tips for keeping a positive frame of mind, no matter what’s going on around me is to take a deep breath and say to myself, “Everything is as it should be. Nothing happens to you, it happens for you. God is in control of this situation and these circumstances. All I have to do is believe that He is.”