Thought is creative. All thought, good and bad, is creative and tends to become a material thing. That is why we must learn to be more positive. Our environment and all the experiences in our life are the result of our habitual and predominant thoughts. Negative thoughts can tell us about something that needs our attention. Our job is to discover what needs to be done and take care of it. Many people fail to see a negative occurrence as a learning experience and continue to feel victimised and helpless, ultimately blaming others for what they drew to themselves, however unaware of that fact they may be.

Steps to Take

1. Practice positive thinking. Begin to exchange your negative thoughts for more positive ones, substitute riches for poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for disharmony and freedom and independence for duty and obligation. Everything which exists is some manifestation of this one basic substance from which and by which all things have been created.
2. Recognise that it is our mental process, our mental action and interaction that determine the infinite variety of situations and conditions that we have and will continue to experience through out our life.
3. Focus your imagination and efforts on creating the 'state of mind' that will spontaneously create the desired results. It is much easier to affect change internally because we are dealing with an aspect of the universe that we have some control over. We can't always control our outer universe, but we can, with some effort, control our inner universe.
4. Create your life from within. If you want more success, focus on all the ways that you are already successful. If you want more love, focus on all the people that already care about you and the abundance of love you have to give to others. If you want to create greater health, focus on all the ways that you are healthy, and so on and so forth.
5. Reverse the evidence of your senses; trick your senses into believing things are better than they are, until they are. Think about what you want, create a picture of it in your mind, and make it very clear and precise. Hold it there and focus on it in a gentle, positive way until it becomes more and more of a reality to you. That is positive thinking.
6. Learn to act as if the life you visualize were already here. The only thing between you and your desire to be successful and wealthy is one single fact: You are not successful or wealthy because of how you think. This little known fact keeps many from reaching their goals of success and wealth. You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, your intentions create your reality.

Tips

• Success lies just beyond your thoughts. Know that this understanding is what inspires you to accomplish what you really desire in life. And if you are satisfied with yourself and your thoughts, there is nothing you cannot do or be – because your thoughts are powerful!
• Think about what you want, not about what you don't want - that is positive thinking.
• Be sure to cultivate positive thinking for the right reasons - to enhance the quality of your life and the lives of others.
• Find some positive affirmations that will help you and repeat them often. Statements such as "I am a very positive person", "I am very capable", "There is nothing I cannot do if I put my mind to it". Affirmations are very empowering.
• Keep trying

Warnings

• The thing to remember is that we created the circumstances that have become our cross to bear. We must recognise how we allow ourselves to succumb to thought patterns that bring us down. *We get what we expect to get, therefore begin right now to expect the very best of everything that this world has to offer - and know that you deserve it.
• So long as you don't intentionally hurt yourself or anyone else in the process, you can ask the World for whatever you want.
• Remember 'Your thoughts make your reality'