7 Steps to Enlightenment in One Week

We all seem to have some small amount of a creative streak hiding within us, just waiting to get out. Where do those creative thoughts come from? How do we make more of those inspiring thoughts? By encouraging positive thinking, we can increase the number of good thoughts in our head. Below is an easy to follow seven day guide to more positive thinking.

Day One: Bring passion into your life. Look at your life and decide what is important to you. Set goals and figure out what can be done to improve or accomplish those goals. Take a passionate leap towards making your life the way you want it to be.

Day Two: Make a commitment to love deeper. For yourself, as well as those you love, you need to start living every day with love in the front of your mind. Loving and being loved in return can help you accomplish many things. You can dream all you want, but unless you take action to bring it around, you can not expect any results.

Day Three: Begin living for the moment. You've probably always lived for tomorrow, never learning what it truly feels like to live your life the way it was intended, for each and every moment. Do not be too afraid to go for that extreme. Even if things do not work out exactly the way you would have wanted, you can turn around and learn from that moment. The important part is that you lived it, and did not let it pass you by

Day Four: Give up the regret. Replace words that will bring you down, like should have, would have, and could have with words that will inspire you like recognize, reevaluate, and restore. This can give you a better outlook on life while helping to increase your passion. It also is an effective tool to help you learn from your mistakes in the past. All of these steps work in conjunction with each other to help you have more enlightened thinking.

Day Five: Never get too serious. Every aspect of your life is likely to have at least one flaw. If you can manage to cast that flaw in a humorous light, you are on your way to enlightened thinking. Anyone can get upset and aggravated when something does not go their way. It really takes someone special to loosen up and realize that flaws are not the end of the world. By living this way you are helping keep your stress level down, which is always a big help.

Day Six: Embrace the fact that your life is your own. You need to recognize that you and you alone are in control of what happens to you. You can blame your shortcomings on no one else. That also means, that everything you accomplish is because of you, and no one else can take credit for what you have done. By your big thinking, and hard work, you have accomplished things on your own that are uniquely yours.

By incorporating these six steps into your life, one day at a time, you can help put things into perspective for yourself. You will begin to look a life with a few, fiery passion, which will allow you to accomplish things you would have never tried before. Laughing off your short comings, and realizing your accomplishments are yours and yours alone will give you strength and determination to do everything you can do. Learn from your mistakes but never give up on yourself, and you will be sure to keep your thoughts inspiring and enlightened.