3 Steps to Developing a Positive Mindset by Jason Boreyko

Self-help book author Jason Boreyko believes that a positive mindset can help anyone live a happier life as it promotes mental, physical and emotional well-being. Visit his site to read more.

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For Jason Boreyko, success follows those who live their day-to-day lives with a positive mindset and attitude. Success, he shares, for truly happy people, is no longer measured by material or financial wealth alone. As a matter of fact, the financial success that they achieve is but an incentive—a bonus—for living a happy, fulfilled and contented life. Have you ever noticed how some truly rich people seem to be unhappy? Wealth therefore does not equate happiness.

In this post, Jason Boreyko shares his own key steps to achieving a positive mindset. He believes that with a positive attitude, anything becomes more achievable, whether it is a small goal or a larger-than-life dream.

These are the 3 steps he'd like to share with his readers:

1. Go within

The most critical and arguably the most important step to developing a positive mindset is learning how to go within—how to go into the silence and be comfortable with it. Sometimes, people avoid being still because they know that the answer they need is not necessarily the one they seek. In other words, they already know what to do with a major issue, for example, but they do everything they can to avoid it because it's not something they're comfortable with.

When you go into the silence, certain things that you're uncomfortable with may be revealed to you and this could mean your own actions and participation into the life that you have now. But, Jason Boreyko insists, once you've become comfortable with silence, and you've learned to truly go deep inside, you will find that it will become a habit—your go-to practice when faced with a major decision or you're going through a difficult phase in your life.

2. Be mindful of what you feed your mind

With the onset of the internet and social media, negativity is easier to come across. From news stories to rants and complaints, the internet is overflowing with negativity. When you read these negative stories or watch negative videos day-in and day-out, you are unconsciously imbibing negativity into your psyche. You may soon find that you've become easily agitated, more irritable; you're looking for opportunities to complain and become offended and so on. Do not seek the negative in your daily life, advises Jason Boreyko; instead, feed your mind with positive things—positive news, positive stories, feel-good movies and videos, and anything that evokes happy emotions from you.

3. Help more

It's been discovered in various research countless of times: helping others does good to the recipient as much as the giver. Benevolence makes you happy because you're doing something that not only will enhance the lives of others but more importantly, you're doing something "bigger than yourself." In the words of the great American poet Walt Whitman, "The gift is to the giver—it comes back most to him…it cannot fail."

There are several other steps that can help you develop a positive mindset and consequently help you live a better life, says Jason Boreyko; but these three should help you get started on the right track.