Negative thoughts don’t just happen.  They are there for a reason, and you need to discover why.  Embedded in each negative thought is an important lesson you need to learn, and the sooner you learn it, the better off you will be.  After you learn the lesson, the negative thought will leave, and you will never have a problem with it again.  You will have a permanent strategy that eliminates it from your mind.  Each negative thought contains the seeds of its own destruction if you listen to its message. 

Problems remain problems until you discover their solution.  It doesn’t matter if a problem pops up its head a million times, once you know the solution, the problem loses it power because you know how to deal with it. 

The solution to difficult problems can be surprisingly simple.  I have worked in international medicine for my entire professional career.  I am committed to excellence, and I have often been frustrated when large bureaucracies don’t respond to the needs of my patients.  For many years, I hurt myself as I tried to force unmovable bureaucracies to change their ways of doing things.  Disaster happened when the unstoppable object (Dr. Abbott) struck the unmovable object (the bureaucracy), and I was the one who usually got hurt in the collision. 

I learned an important lesson. Never believe in something more strongly than the people who are in charge.  Once I stopped trying to change the unchangeable, my life immediately improved.  When I wanted something positive to happen in my profession, I first checked it out with the people in charge.  If they believed in what I wanted to do, then I moved forward at maximum speed.  If they didn’t believe in my proposal, I politely let it die a quiet death, and I moved on.  I never had to surrender my integrity, and once I learned this lesson, I was much more effective in my job.  Now I can easily work in any bureaucracy and still achieve my personal goals.  Once I learned this lesson, bureaucracies were no longer a problem.  I eliminated bureaucratic negativity from my life.

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Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.