The Power of Positive Thinking

David Lowe 0:00

What are you thankful for ? Hi , I'm David Lowe , the Automotive Sales Coach , and welcome to today's podcast . Prepare to Win . Today's episode is all about how our thinking drives our actions and our actions drive our results , and so we're talking about the attitude of gratitude . I began this episode by asking you what are you thankful for ? Can I tell you something ?

David Lowe 0:39

As I study people of excellence , people that pursued being better today than they were yesterday , people that have accomplished great things , I want to know how did they do it right ? What do they have in common ? And we find that thoughts are things , and the people that achieve more really think better than other people . Right , they've decided to master their mind . Right , what goes in our computer comes out in our life . Our brain is our computer , and so thinking positive is one of the ways to do it .

David Lowe 1:09

And this attitude of gratitude , this focus on what I have and not what I don't have , is a tool or a habit that so many people I've discovered use right . I think Michael Strahan was the last one I read about that said hey , I start my morning by writing three things . I'm thankful , and I can go back hundreds of years . This habit has going on . I do it in my life . I don't know where it came from Probably my mom , like most of the good things in my life and I've fed this habit and I've reinforced this habit through my own personal searching and study , right . So here's the habit and I want to get to a little background on why it's so important . So the habit is sitting down in the morning and maybe making a list . I'm thankful for this . I'm thankful for that .

David Lowe 1:56

Now , it's so easy to go to your spouse or your family and your health and your job , right , and we should be thankful for those things . We don't want to take those things for granted , and there's so many things in America that we're thankful for that . Other parts of the world , I mean , we take it for granted . Other parts of the world , don't ? Right ? I was watching a show and it was in France I think it was Paris and this person was found . This great apartment in Paris . It was a great luxury apartment and the kicker was it also had good water pressure . Right , they were making a big deal that this luxury apartment also has great water pressure . Now , I've really never thought about it at my house . Don't we take for granted that our water pressure should be good . A lot of the world doesn't have some of the basic niceties that we take for granted . Would it hurt you to be thankful for it ? No , it doesn't hurt me .

David Lowe 2:58

I know focusing on gratitude empowers me , so let's talk about that . So focusing on gratitude is part of Think Positive , right , and here's a book that I , like you know I always say you put positive things in , positive things come out right , and so this episode what Are you Thankful For is really about the power of positive thinking , and the attitude of gratitude is positive thinking . You're intentionally feeding your mind with something that strengthens you . So many people strangle themselves with poor thoughts . They think about what's wrong and not what's right . Every day , maybe every hour , they reinforce who they're not and what they don't have , instead of reinforcing the opportunities and who they are , what they do have right . So I like to constantly feed my mind .

David Lowe 3:54

You guys know that I've read . If you've done any of our training on the dealership playbook , if you've been to our most sales coaches live , some of you know that a lot of what we talk about is not just selling with excellence , but it's like living with excellence , and you can't do either really without having an excellent mindset or an excellent attitude . You're thinking right . That's what we call your thinking , your mindset , and we know that our mindset , our thinking , is always being programmed right . It's being programmed by well , our experience right . What happens to us is programming it . Our environment , people around us are programming , of course , our education , and so we know we're being programmed . I like to say let's go ahead and program ourself with the thinking we want . Why not control what's going in our computer , right ? Our brain is a super complex computer and garbage in , garbage out that means great stuff in , great stuff out . So I pick up stuff like this .

David Lowe 4:54

This is I don't know when this was published . I don't know , maybe 20 years ago , maybe not that long . 15 years ago it was a series Chicken Soup for the Soul . This happens to be the Think Positive , I guess , version of it . I don't know . I think that my mom picked these up at a garage sale or something to start out with how I got reading them . That's how that stuff happens . There's 101 inspirational stories . These are really good . If you read one of these a day , you will really be grateful . It's so easy to take all the blessings in your life for granted , and these stories will really remind you of the good things in your life . But anyway , I want to read this foreword by Deborah Norville .

David Lowe 5:43

She worked in the news for a long time and she says this change your thoughts and you change your world . Now Norman Vincent Peale said that in one of his books and here she's talking about . I can't remember how long it's been since I first heard these words change your thoughts and you change your world . And she says it's so positive , it's packed with power and it's kind of been her lifelong mantra that she uses and she goes to whenever things aren't going well . She will immediately train her mind to think about what is right , the opportunity right . This power of the subconscious mind at work . It's constantly being programmed and when our natural instinct to go negative , she's saying remind yourself this if I change my thoughts right now , I can change my world . In other words , I can impact the people and the opportunities around me based on my mindset . If my mindset is wrong or weak or negative , will that not affect the people around me ? We talked about that heart coherence , the new science that's showing that our heart puts off something that can be felt three meters away sometimes . In other words . People know how you feel inside . Now your words sometimes are meaningless . They feel the attitude you say them with . Our attitudes are contagious , and if we're negative we'll have a negative attitude , and that will be contagious too . Right , but she went on to talk about some of the power of this .

David Lowe 7:20

There's the scientific research of people who can recall positive events have been proven to be more resilient , even in the most difficult situations . People who keep track of the good things in their lives are healthier , more active , more productive and held in higher regard by those around them . What's more , people who are aware to accentuate the positive are smarter , better able to make cognitive associations and connect . They solve problems faster and more correctly . Kids who summon up positive memories do better on tests .

David Lowe 7:57

Well , I don't have to take you through . If you're interested in the proof of what I have to say , there's plenty written about it . Spend a little time on Google and it'll prove it to you . Scientific fact that whatever you put in your computer , the programming determines what comes out right . Scientific fact whatever you put in your computer , the programming determines what comes out right . Scientific fact whatever you put in your brain is going to come out in your life right . What consumes your mind controls your life .

David Lowe 8:27

Creed said that in one of their songs , and it's so true . Solomon says as a man thinketh in his heart , so they are right , and thoughts are things . Think and grow rich thoughts . Just go back and do the research for yourself . If you're as convinced that I am , that what I'm thankful for my mindset will really impact the quality of my life , then you'll do something about it . I do Every single day .

David Lowe 8:57

I want this habit of focusing on what's right and when things turn hey , listen , things happen . None of us are perfect . We make mistakes and things happen to us even when we don't mistake . Good things happen to bad people . How do we do it ? I really believe we have to remember the power of positive thinking , and I think today's episode I want to sum up for you was all about how do you harness the power of positive thinking . I think we all know it's important and I think reading positive material , hanging out with positive people these are all good things , and I think one of the most impactful things you can do not I think I know because I've been doing it writing down the act of writing down the things you're thankful for and meditating or praying over those daily , will greatly impact your attitude . Okay , so here's the question for you . We know attitudes are contagious . True , is the attitude you're carrying today , right now , the attitude you want your co-workers to have , your kids or your spouse to have right , and that's really the gauge , isn't ? It ? Is my attitude , the attitude I want , rubbing off on those around me ? If it's not , take the hemp . Start writing three things you're thankful for .

Developing Habits for Long-Term Success

David Lowe 10:18

I'm going to tell you , if you do this 21 days in a row , it will become a habit . They say doing something 21 days in a row it doesn't make it automatic . It just means you're more likely to continue doing it . There's more research that says if you take that habit for 21 days , you start it . I want to do this , I want to do this , I think about it every day . It comes easier , but I just do it for 21 days . If I want to make it a lifestyle , I need to continue 90 days more . So I take the 21 and I add the 90 , that's 111 days .

David Lowe 10:53

They say whatever you do over and over and over will become a habit and a lifestyle . That doesn't make it automatic , but it makes it something that you count on every day . And since this is a good thing , why not start working on that habit today ? All right , thank you so much for joining us for today's episode . What are you thankful for ? Right , the power of positive thinking . What your mind can conceive and believe , you can achieve . And so if you want this habit , you can have it . Good selling .