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If you haven’t been able to find a lot of happiness in your life, maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. Our level of happiness is based on our thoughts and our thoughts are a reflection of what’s in our minds. We can begin the quest for happiness by separating our memories into three separate chests.

The Treasure Chest of the mind is where we put our most cherished memories. We open this chest when looking for happiness, comfort and contentment.

The Hope Chest of our mind is for our goals and dreams of tomorrow. As each is fulfilled it is then moved to our Treasure Chest.

The Dumpster Chest of the mind is for letting go of the hurts and trash of yesterday. Once in this chest they are dumped, to be forever let go. Once these memories are put in the Dumpster Chest you should never go digging them out.

Our thoughts are a reflection on who we are. Happy people have happy thoughts. That doesn’t mean that the happy person never has an unhappy thought, it means the happy person knows how to move these unhappy thoughts into the Dumpster Chest and then forget about them.

If someone speaks of you and is not pleasant or someone acts and is not nice to you, it is not a reflection of you but a reflection of them. Do you think they are happy? What is in their Treasure Chest or Hope Chest that should have been put in their Dumpster Chest? How sad for them, but don’t let it affect you.

If you want to be happy, take the time to sit and think about your thoughts. Put the good ones in your Treasure Chest or Hope Chest and the bad ones in your Dumpster Chest. Focus only on your Treasure Chest and Hope Chest for they are now full of the jewels of hope and joy.

Happy people spend their effort adding to their Treasure and Hope chests while unhappy people spend their time sorting through the dumpster. If you are serious about finding happiness, leave the trash behind and become a treasure hunter.

The benefits of positive thinking are well known and widely practiced. They are considered “guidelines to success” by most good businessmen, professional athletes and anyone else who wants to achieve all he or she can. However, sometimes it’s not easy to determine just how to go about becoming a truly positive thinker, especially if it represents a major shift in the way you’re used to looking at things.

The steps of positive thinking require a considerable amount of self talk and a continuously positive attitude. Once you learn to do this on a regular basis, you will gain optimism in place of pessimism, a new way of looking at the brighter side of things and, in general, the ability to expect good things to come your way. The necessary steps mean learning to have a positive attitude by finding reasons to smile more; choosing to be happy instead of sad; reading inspiring articles and books; looking at the bright side of life instead of worst-case scenarios; realizing that negative thinking is self destructive; and choosing to remain optimistic. Instead of thinking about and visualizing bad things happening, you’ll be ideating the good probabilities. Eventually, you may come to believe that no obstacle to your progress cannot be moved out of your way.

There are many benefits to be realized by accomplishing this. It will help you achieve personal and business goals and have success; successes will be faster and easier to attain; you will have the ability to inspire yourself and motivate other people and those people will respect you. Perhaps most important of all, you will be happier and have lots more energy. And always remember that a positive attitude says, “I can” while a negative says, “I can’t!” If you think that you can’t, you won’t, because you’ll never really try.

Ask yourself, “Do I really want to be a positive thinker?” If you do want to reap the many benefits of being a positive thinker, it takes a lot more than just telling yourself that everything will be okay. It has to be a conscious decision that is ‘top of mind’ with you all the time. It also has to include putting the fear of failing or rejection safely away in your back pocket for all time and becoming aware only of those good things that will come from your attitudes and efforts.

If you have a personal computer with Internet access, you can be the recipient of a wealth of detailed information about positive thinking written by experts with long experience. Merely type ‘positive thinking’ into your computer’s web browser and click ’search.” It will all be at your fingertips just that easily.