Sometimes it can feel like nothing is going well in life, everything is going wrong, and you never seem to get a ‘win’.

That obviously doesn’t make you feel very positive. You might be feeling like you’re stuck in a negative mindset that’s rubbing off on everything.

What can you do about this? Firstly you need to be OPEN to a perspective shift. Then, you track your ‘bright spots’, and start recording everything that’s going well. Believe it or not, but in doing this, your brain starts to look for success, and often starts finding it.

Each Friday at the gym, we celebrate ‘Bright Spots Friday’, and encourage members to share with other members their wins, achievements or breakthroughs each week, no matter how small. It could be as simple as the fact that they made it in the door this week.

ALL ‘wins’ count, no matter how small. They might be related to health, fitness, your work, family, or anything else in your life.Eg, you might notice that: 

even though your morning started as chaos, you were able to cross one thing off your to do list.

you packed your lunch today instead of buying it

you didn’t make it to the gym, but you managed a 15 minute walk

This isn’t about pretending problems don’t exist, but sometimes we need some counterbalance as it’s a human tendency to focus on the negatives. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t some good happening as well. 

Give this a crack and see how it works for you. Celebrate each bright spot so that your brain  learns that these new behaviours feel good.