Welcome to today's episode of The Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial, if you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode.

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today we're going to be talking about why positive thinking hasn't really been

working for you I'm going to talk about why

positive thinking doesn't work for a lot of people and then what I'm going to do is

talk about how to actually make it work for you. It's funny because I hear a lot of people talk about

positive thinking and they talk trash about positive thinking and they say

oh that's just toxic positivity and you just you're just saying when you're saying be positive you're saying you know just ignore the negative

and don't think of any of the bad things in your life think of only the good things. I'm not saying that at all

What I'm saying is with positive thinking and negative thinking it's not just like a once a day kind of thing. It should be

the overall state of who you are.

Are you more of a pessimistic person or even more of an optimistic person?

And I'm not saying at all, ignore the negative, pretend it doesn't exist.

What I'm saying is if you have a positive attitude, you can

then take action to create whatever it is that you need to from the negativity that might be

existing in your life.

Thinking positive actually helps you create a better life and that's

scientifically proven. And so before we go any further for those of you guys that are

a little bit skeptical I guess you would say, let actually bring some time scientific studies in here

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