How to get rid of negative feelings - now there is a challenge for us! The world is going crazy! Turn on the TV and watch friend killing friend, slaughter of nations, horrors world wide, flooding, starvation, financial crisis and calamity after calamity going on around the world.

How can you not have negative feelings with all of this going on?

Isn't in normal to have negative feelings? Well yes actually it is. So how can you be positive when the world is turning upside down?

Firstly, remember that everything will come to pass. Everything is temporary and nothing lasts forever. No matter how bad it seems to be it will not last forever.

Also remember, that for the most part, and this may sound uncaring, but it is not, most of the bad things in the world are not actually happening to you.

It maybe true that you maybe struggling with money and they may be knocking on your door to come and get the money you owe them, but that problem is small compared to the man with no legs or the woman in Africa who has no food for her kids.

"I worried about having no shoes, until I met a man with no legs" goes the famous expression and this really sums up just about everything relating to our problems. It may be of little solace to you to know that no matter how big your problem is, there is always someone else with a bigger problem.

No matter what the problem is that you have, you took a road that got to it. If you owe money because of gambling debts for example, remember that you were the one that went gambling and ran up the debt. And so if you can get into debt, with time, you can get out of debt. It may take 5 years, 10 years or even 20 years, but you can get out of it.

Also remember that if you have a debt, for example, most money lenders will be happy if you pay something. They realize that if they put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, they will not get any money, so something is better than nothing. So you can talk to them and explain the problem you are having and organize schedules and even lowering the amount you pay.

I spent the first 40 years of my life working so hard to build my empire. I wanted a big company making thousands of dollars and big contracts and loads of staff and a flashy lifestyle.

When I had all that I lived in a nightmare. I was working 20 hours a day 7 days a week and my stress levels were so high. I never saw my friends or family and all I did was work, work, work. I was miserable and unhappy. I gave it all up! Now I have a small business and I live on an island in The Philippines in Luxury in a small unit surrounded by friends, beauty and laughter. In the end all of the work was for nothing because I was unhappy. Now I work less, play in the sea more and have a wonderful lifestyle, but even this will one day end, so remember in the end "nothing really matters."

1) Remember everything is temporary;
2) Someone somewhere has a bigger problem than you;
3) If you got into the problem, you can get out of it;
4) Everything is negotiable;
5) In the end nothing really matters.

These may seem non-conventional thinking ways to get rid of negative thinking, but we live in a world where conventional thinking does not work quite so well anymore.

Most successful people are a little "odd" or "Crazy" or at least "unconventional". I say watch where everyone else is going and then go the opposite direction...

The 5 ways to avoid negative thinking work for me and if you give them a try, they may just work for you.

Tim Bennett helps hundreds of students find their purpose in life and helps put them on the road to success through his programs and non-conventional trainings. you can get a free glimpse of what he does at http://www.mylifeismypassion.com/hiddenself/

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