Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter
The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.
Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were "stupid", you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of "I am so slow" and "it is so hard to learn". If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.
A common negative talk involves telling yourself "I can’t". When you say to yourself "I can’t" or "it is too difficult", you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.
Anytime you catch yourself saying "I can’t…", turn around and challenge your own claim with, "Why can’t I?" Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying "I can" a lot more.
A great method that I have also found useful is to say "Cancel Cancel" each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.
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positive Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.
An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.
Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.
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positive Scripts
One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.
From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.
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Replace Negative Influences with positive Ones
It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.
Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.
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Present Tense Messages
You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.
What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, "What can I do right now?" Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.
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Confront Fears
Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.
Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.
英語散文中也有很多簡短的優(yōu)美段落值得賞析，下面是關(guān)于優(yōu)美英語散文段落摘抄的內(nèi)容，歡迎閱讀！
1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美國作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道錢的價值，就想辦法去借錢試試。
——Benjamin Franklin（美國總統(tǒng)富蘭克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，當(dāng)以恒心為良友，以經(jīng)驗為參謀，以謹慎為兄弟，以希望為哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美國發(fā)明家愛迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康當(dāng)然比金錢更為重要，因為我們所賴以獲得金錢的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家約翰遜）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能處處尋求快樂的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美國作家梭羅）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有時候一個人為不花錢得到的東西付出的代價最高。
——Albert Einstein（美國科學(xué)家愛因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法國化學(xué)家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世間所有的榮華富貴不如一個好朋友。
——Voltaire（法國思想家伏爾泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身體之間存在極大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英國批評家散文家哈滋里特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
懷著希望去旅行比抵達目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英國作家史蒂文森）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一個人越偉大，對表揚和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美國博物學(xué)家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以說成功要靠三件事才能贏得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英國詩人小說家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取決于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法國思想家孟德斯鳩）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圓滿完成簡單工作的人，才能夠輕而易舉的完成困難的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德國劇作家詩人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必須相信自己，這是成功的關(guān)鍵。
——Charles Chaplin（美國演員卓別林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
無論何事，只要對它有無限的熱情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美國實業(yè)家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法國皇帝拿破侖）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
進步是今天的活動，明天的保證。
——Emerson（美國思想家愛默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美國總統(tǒng)尼克松）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇跡有時候是會發(fā)生的，但是你得為之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（愛爾蘭總統(tǒng)魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。
——G. Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天賦，勤勉會使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉會補足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美國散文家雷諾茲）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成偉大的事業(yè)不在于體力，而在于堅韌不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英國作家和評論家約翰遜）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味著終身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄國化學(xué)家門捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，與其說是條件不夠，不如說是由于決心不夠。
——（La Racheforcauld（法國作家羅切福考爾德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大膽挑戰(zhàn)，世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了，不斷地挑戰(zhàn)，它總會屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英國小說家薩克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都應(yīng)盡力而為，半途而廢永遠不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美國詩人斯托達德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一個人可以失敗多次，但是只要他沒有開始責(zé)怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。
——J.Burroughs（美國博物學(xué)家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
從一個國家的廣告可以看出這個國家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英國作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
實現(xiàn)明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美國總統(tǒng)羅斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法實現(xiàn)之前是個怪人。
——Mark Twain（美國作家馬克？吐溫）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是確定一個偉大的目標，并決心實現(xiàn)它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德國詩人、劇作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世間的大多數(shù)煩惱都是由那些想成為重要人物的人惹出來的。
——George Eliot（英國小說家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你懷疑自己，那么你的立足點確實不穩(wěn)固了。
——Ibsen（挪威劇作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明燈。沒有理想，就沒有堅定的'方向；
沒有方向，就沒有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄國作家托爾斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想猶如天上的星星，我們猶如水手，雖不能達到天上，
但是我們的航程可憑借它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美國政治家舒爾茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生應(yīng)該樹立目標，否則你的精神會白白浪費。
——R. Peters（美國法學(xué)家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放棄你的幻想。當(dāng)幻想沒有了以后，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。
——Mark Twain（馬克 吐溫）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失敗，就放棄你原來決心想要達到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亞）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想與現(xiàn)實之間，動機與行為之間，總有一道陰影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.愛略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一個人還有所追求，他就沒有老。直到后悔取代了夢想，一個人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里穆爾）
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果僅僅就變化論變化，則只是變動不羈，倏忽即逝；這是低能的表現(xiàn)，真正了解變化在于把握住在變化中完成自身的永恒目標。
——John Dewey 約翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
變化是生活的法則。只盯著過去或眼前的人注定失去未來。
——John F.Kennedy 約翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄無聲息地誕生，性情卻在生命之河里逐漸形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一個人既自傲又膽怯，將永遠一事無成。
——Joseph Roux 約瑟夫·魯
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我們想讓孩子在某個方面有所改變，我們應(yīng)首先檢驗一下，看看我們自己是否最好在這一方面變一變。
——Jung 榮格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留給孩子的最好財產(chǎn)莫過于允許他完全獨立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·鄧肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的優(yōu)點是盡可能多地駕馭外部環(huán)境，盡可能少地讓環(huán)境約束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的條件或者最佳時機，它們永遠不會降臨。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯圖亞特
51、Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永遠學(xué)不到什么東西，原因在于他們什么都理解得太快。
——Alexander Pope 亞歷山大·蒲柏
52、To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
要正確地思考，我們須領(lǐng)悟別人的意思；想知道自己見解的價值，我們須檢驗它們對別人有何影響。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·黑茲利特
53、No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
沒有人是完全孤立的島嶼，每人都是構(gòu)成大陸的一小塊。
——John Donne 約翰·鄧恩
54、No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
沒有人能讓社會服從個人的意志。倘若他想尋求符合心意的社會，也必須服務(wù)于它。
——Emerson 愛默生
55、Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
習(xí)慣做假是小人的特點，但常常是某人做假遮住了一個污點，卻在另一處露了馬腳。
——La Rochefoucauld 拉羅什福科
56、Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
每個人都是一輪月亮，都有黑暗的、從不示人的一面。
——Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫
57、The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
思想越狹隘，自負越膨脹。
——伊索
58、What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
哲學(xué)的首要任務(wù)是什么？是同自負決裂。因為任何人都不可能著手去學(xué)自以為已經(jīng)掌握的東西。
——Epictetus 愛比克泰德
59、Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
不惜一切代價奪取勝利，不畏任何恐怖奪取勝利。不論道路多么漫長，多么崎嶇，一定要奪取勝利！因為沒有勝利就不能生存。
——Sir Winston Churchill 溫斯頓·丘吉爾
60、The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
勝利之神據(jù)說是獨臂的，和平卻將勝利賦予雙方。
——Emerson 愛默生
On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration.
It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.
I have already completed the most important part of this task. A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labor, Opposition and Liberals, the unity of the nation.
It was necessary that this should be done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key positions were filled yesterday. I am submitting a further list to the King tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of principal Ministers during tomorrow.
The appointment of other Ministers usually takes a little longer. I trust when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administration will be complete in all respects.
I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. At the end of today's proceedings, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until May 2l with provision for earlier meeting if need be. Business for that will be notified to M. P. 's at the earliest opportunity.
I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution:
"That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion."
To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary Phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at any other points-in Norway and in Holland-and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or for mer colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word, It is victory. Victory at all costs-victory in spite of all terrors-victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.
Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.
I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."
