Positive Attitude Tips for Organizing Your Life

Positive attitude tips to help you achieve organized living.

Improve your personal organization by overcoming cognitive distortions that prevent you from organizing your life.

How are attitudes formed?

In everyday common language the word attitude has many meanings but to make the concept of organized living make sense the meaning of the word as it is used in social psychology will be the reference for the use of this word on these pages.

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. This little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

Clement W. Stone

Attitudes are formed by the basic underlying values and beliefs you have adopted throughout your life. Your upbringing has a great influence on how your attitudes are formed because they influence the underlying beliefs and values that create your overall attitude.

Events that happen in your life's experience greatly influence the formation or your own personal attitudes. Things like culture, religion, politics, and family environment all have a significant influence on the formation of attitudes.

If you are not aware of your personal values and beliefs you are less likely to have control over your life, hence organizing your life may seem like a mysterious challenge.

Positive attitude tips can only be offered if we first understand what the word attitude really means.

The word attitude refers to a cognitive construct or way of thinking. Since we cannot see the way a person is thinking, attitude is inferred from behaviour. A positive attitude is based on affirming beliefs. These beliefs affirm our worth and value as a person.

By contrast a negative attitude is based on constraining beliefs. These beliefs are sometimes called cognitive distortions and reflect errors in interpretations of life's events.

Positive attitude tips for organized living would not be worth anything if they do not address the underlying beliefs that form the foundation for the attitude itself.

Attitudes cannot and will not change without a shift in the underlying values and beliefs that support them. So it all starts with attitudes, values, and beliefs!

There is an emotional side of organized living and personal organization abilities. If you develop more clarity about the ideas, values, and beliefs that are necessary for organizing your life you have a better chance of controlling your life.

You structure your life around your own beliefs whether they are affirming beliefs or cognitive distortions.

What you believe to be true is your reality. However, your beliefs may not actually be true, you just believe them to be true.

If you do not examine your own cognitive distortions they can easily become barriers to the organized life you want to create.

Positive Attitude Tips

Here are some common cognitive distortions that prevent you from organizing your life	Here are some positive attitude tips based on affirming beliefs that can help in establishing organized living
I should always behave in a way that pleases other people If I try to meet my own needs I am selfish My own needs are not as important as the needs of other people, especially people I love Other people will not like me if I refuse a request I should always respond to the requests of others When people say they need me I am obligated to respond in the affirmative	My own needs and feelings are as important as the needs and feelings of others, and sometimes they might be more important! Communicating my needs and feelings is healthy behaviour I have a right to an orderly life Organized living benefits me as well as those around me

Getting organized requires a belief in the right to an organized life.

So perhaps of all the positive attitude tips for organizing your life the best one would be:

Believe in and assert your rights to organized living!

Now That Makes Sense!

Go back to Assertiveness Training for Organized Living

Go to Lesson #2. You have the right to abandon the care of other people’s stuff (OPS),

Go to Lesson #3. You have the right to say no, and not have to apologize for doing so.

Go to Lesson #4. You have the right to focus on one thing at a time.