{"id":3428,"date":"2018-05-25T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:43:03","slug":"positive-mindset-matters-create-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2018\/05\/positive-mindset-matters-create-one.html","title":{"rendered":"Why a Positive Mindset Matters and How to Create One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"be<\/a>Eight years ago, Oprah Winfrey hosted a contest that was meant to find the next talk show host. Krista Rizzo entered the contest. If she won, she planned to call her show \u201cWhy Am I Yelling?\u201d When she entered the contest, she decided to create a blog that would cover similar topics to the potential TV show. Rizzo was not the winner of the contest, but she decided to continue blogging anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had one child at the time\u2013he was four\u2013 and [blogging] was really just a hobby,\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cI enjoyed writing. I had a full time job in corporate America, but stuff about motherhood would pop up\u2026and [blogging] turned into an outlet for me\u2026Then I had another child and changed my life, [but blogging] just stuck with me through everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rizzo\u2019s blog still has its original name, \u201cWhy Am I Yelling?\u201d and continues to deal, in part, with topics pertaining to motherhood and childrearing. The blog, however, is not just a \u2018mommy blog.\u2019 In her blog, Rizzo often addresses the importance of communication and a positive mindset, both of which are topics she often address in her work as a life coach.<\/p>\n

To Rizzo, a positive mindset is essential because \u201cit dictates the person that you are\u2026.It says a lot about your attitude, about your feelings, about your views on how you want your life to look and how you want your situation to look. I feel like it\u2019s a reflection of who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rizzo admits that a positive mindset is not always easy to achieve. \u201cIt takes work,\u201d she said. \u201cBut if you\u2019re living in negativity, you are not going to reap the full reward of what\u2019s out there in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, negativity can be hard to avoid in today\u2019s world. Children and teens are constantly surrounded by negativity, often competing with friends to see who could claim to have had the worst day. Social media has not helped either as it is so easy for people to get swept up in an online argument and form a digital mob.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [social media] has brought people together and raised awareness of social issues when they\u2019re using it the right way,\u201d said Rizzo. \u201cIt\u2019s a very slippery slope\u2026There\u2019s a lot of negative social media out there and people get sucked into it\u2026It\u2019s a double edged sword.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for dealing with the negativity Olympics among teens and children, Rizzo said that the biggest defense against such things is the example of parents. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of negativity [in the world]\u2026and we need to be stepping up and showing them that the stuff they see on the news is not really a reflection of life as a whole,\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cWe are all going to go through bad times\u2013a bad situation, a bad friend, a bad word coming toward us\u2013and I think that arming our children and parents, especially teenagers, with the right tools is so vitally important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those tools enable people of all ages to develop a positive mindset. \u201cThere is always something to learn from negativity,\u201d said Rizzo. \u201cIt takes work just like everything else, but [you can do it] when you have tools available to you.\u201d Among Rizzo\u2019s favorite tools are gratitude and meditation, though she recommends affirmations and journaling as well.<\/p>\n

Rizzo knows as well as anyone that there are good days and bad days. Positivity is harder to come by on some days than others, but a positive mindset can help turn a miserable waste of a day into a tolerable day that teaches an important lesson. \u201cAll the days you have going forward, do you want to live under the cloud of rain or under the cloud of sunshine?\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cIt really is a choice, and it\u2019s all about choosing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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