Monday, August 18, 2008

Positive Thoughts....Part 2

I am not sure whether you all have read the "Six Thinking Hats" by Edward de Bono before, but i strongly urge you all to at least give it a go. It's a simple book, but it somehow bring us closer to the way we think and see things in our life.

I would only highlight 2 colors out of the six colors being mentioned in the book. Black and Yellow...Black means negative thinking and Yellow means positive thinking. Generally, black is perceived as a dark color and yellow is more towards a bright vibrant color. Well, if everytime before or during we make decisions, if you were somebody which has been inherited with Black Hat Thinking. you would always think of negative outcome 1st instead of positive outcome. For instance, " Our company would place an advertisement here" .....Positive thinking would immediately gives you positive answer such as. "Good Idea, This is how we can further innovate our advertisement and increase it's visibility"....Negative thinking would straight away say, "It's not good to do this, or place it there. what if this happen and many curiosity would appear in his mind" WHY? Reason being....he/she is so used to wearing the Black Hat in making decision and putting thoughts. Black Hat thinking is good when we need to do certain evaluative judgement, too much of black is not good. We need a balance of few colors to make a good judgement in our thinking. My belief is, Yellow Hat thinking is the strongest among all, it gives you the power or urge to create something great or out of this world. It gives you the strength and courage to proceed to the next level of career or your life. Why are there so many new ideology, concept, technology, scientific discovery and etc.....simply because they believes in what they are doing and they are always positive in searching for the best out of what they are doing. "Dreaming or Thinking of The Impossible" to me is a very powerful thoughts. It would give u the extra edge in you mindset, it would make you feel good at the same time. Everybody is born with their own speciality and talent, only you know what you are good at. Therefore, use you talent and add-on more "Yellow" instead of "Black" to it. Black will always give you FEAR!.....Yellow would always give you COURAGE! .....of course there are many other elements which is important in life, another example of color is "Green", which means creative thinking. 

What i learnt from the "Six Thinking Hats" is, people should only keep good thinking with them, bad thinking must be minimized in our life. On each and every occasion or circumstance, we should wear different colors of hat to make decision. We shouldn't just rely on one color of hat to make that decision. 


Positive Thoughts....Part 1


What is positive thoughts...does it reflects our daily mindset and thinking? Does positive thoughts indirectly trick our mind and soul. Does positive means yellow which represent the color of the sunlight.....

My Perception :
It's good to have positive thinking in order to be a happier and successful character. Negative element always keep us from taking the next move...what if this happen, what is that occur & etc.. I strongly believes that "thinking of the impossible" is good because it give you the confidence to move further and create something which is out of this world. Positive thinking gives u the edges to think further in order to innovate your life. If everyday we think of positive future and outcome, our thoughts might turn out to be true provided that action has been taken to support our thoughts. Positive thoughts would not bring you to somewhere if no physical action is taken to realized your thoughts. Try this at home, try to visualize what you want to achieve every night before you go to bed...it can  be financially or socially. If you think you want to earn XXX amount by certain time period, if you visualize hard enough, amusingly you will get there. This action indirectly will kick start your next day in a positive mood, picking up from your last thought before you go to bed. Therefore everyday you would start your day happily and working towards the thoughts you've embedded in your mind. If you are sad or very down during a particular period of time, and have bad thoughts all the time. It's time for a change, bad thoughts need to be erased from our memories, but it's not as easy as it says...ERASE!, if it was so easy, this world would be a prefect place to inhibit. However, if we keep on focusing on our negative thoughts, it would somehow lead us to a deeper sorrow and we would be sunken by it. So what should we do? I strongly believes that negative memories should be remembered as part of our life lesson and it should not be a guideline to the way we live our life. We live at present time and hoping for a better future .... what has happened in d past should be part of our core memories...good ones, we should keep, bad ones..we should study them and replace them with our good memories.....i strongly believes that this method could be applied to any kind of circumstances or environment. Life is a beautiful thing... 

"Imagination is better than knowledge" ~Albert Einstein...