Your brain is like a rental apartment and you are the landlord. As the landlord, you have the power to choose what and who to rent an apartment to. Renting that apartment to either negative thinking or positive thinking people is a matter of choice.
Many people have failed in life, not because they want to but because they have chosen to rent negative people and negative thinking in their lives. No one has ever achieved positive results with a negative mind. The moment you think negatively, it all over a sudden overpowers and overshadows any positivity that might be in you.
The subject of positive thinking has not been that widely embraced by many people. Some think of it as just rhetoric and something that cannot work in real life. The fact is that a person who has positive thinking anticipates positive results in terms of success, believes and health. Positive thinking is an attitude. It is about developing a positive attitude towards. It is not just about thinking about it but about putting it into practicability.
To maintain positive thinking, avoid the fear of the unknown. Most people give up just on the account of fear of the unknown. To succeed, the only thing you need to fear is fear itself. Fearing that a calamity might befall one anytime is the real reason why some projects don’t even take off. Do you know what made Japan great after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb during the 2nd World War? It was positive thinking. The Japanese did not just sit down and mourn forever.
They let go of the war and channeled their energy to developing their country. Today, Japanese are among the most hardworking people in the world to the point of their government having to force them to go on leave just to rest. What made them so successful was to let go the fear of the unknown befalling them in the near future and embraced positive thinking.
Some people give up just when they are about to succeed. Part of the reason is usually on negative thinking. Negative thinking makes you feel that you have tried so hard that you are not making it. You end up giving up after trying so hard. My father used to tell me that every time you feel like giving up, first think why you had to hold on for that long.