How to Cultivate a Positive-Creative Attitude and Achieve Your Dreams

A positive-creative attitude is a mindset that helps you overcome challenges, embrace opportunities, and pursue your goals with confidence and joy

Prof. Aécio D’Silva, Ph.D
AquaUniversity

A positive-creative attitude is a combination of positive thinking and creative thinking, which are two skills that can be learned and practiced. It’s not about disregarding the odds; it’s about confronting them with the right attitude. Positive thinking is the ability to focus on the bright side of things and to expect the best outcomes but be prepared for whatever is coming. Creative thinking is the ability to generate new and original ideas and to find novel solutions to challenges. A positive-creative attitude can help you cope with stress, improve your health, and enhance your happiness. It can also help you achieve your dreams, by enabling you to overcome obstacles, seize opportunities, and create your own reality. In one of my books, The Power to Change Your Story: Transformation from Inside Out, I describe how having a positive attitude is everything and else to succeed in life.

Do you have a dream that you want to achieve, but feel stuck, frustrated, or hopeless? Do you often doubt yourself, worry about the future, or dwell on the past? Do you struggle to come up with new and innovative ideas, or to find effective ways to solve your challenges? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may benefit from cultivating a positive-creative attitude.

A positive-creative attitude is a mental approach that empowers you to conquer challenges, welcome opportunities, and pursue your objectives with assurance and delight. It merges positive thinking and creative thinking, two skills that can be cultivated and honed. Positive thinking involves concentrating on the positive aspects of situations and anticipating favorable outcomes, but never give up if a negative outcome takes place. Meanwhile, creative thinking entails generating fresh, original ideas and discovering innovative solutions to challenges. [1]

A positive-creative attitude is an asset for managing stress, promoting well-being, and increasing happiness. Moreover, it catalyzes realizing your aspirations, empowering you to surmount challenges, embrace opportunities, and shape your own reality. This Collaborative Intelligence post will delve into the concept of a positive-creative attitude, underscore its significance, and provide insights on how to nurture and develop it.

What is a Positive-Creative Attitude

A positive-creative attitude is a mindset that combines positive thinking and creative thinking, which are two skills that can be learned and practiced. Positive thinking is the ability to focus on the bright side of things and to expect the best outcomes. Creative thinking is the ability to generate new and original ideas and to find novel solutions to problems.

Positive thinking and creative thinking are interrelated and mutually reinforcing. Positive thinking can boost your creative thinking, by enhancing your mood, motivation, and self-efficacy. Creative thinking can boost your positive thinking, by expanding your perspective, increasing your optimism, and stimulating your curiosity.

Embracing a positive-creative attitude not only aids in stress management and enhances well-being but also contributes to increased happiness. This mindset becomes a driving force in realizing your aspirations, empowering you to overcome obstacles, capitalize on opportunities, and shape your own life.[1.2]

Why a Positive-Creative Attitude is Crucial in Your Daily Life

A positive-creative attitude is decisive for many reasons, such as:

• Coping with stress: A positive-creative attitude can help you cope with stress, by reducing the negative effects of stress on your body and mind, and by increasing your resilience and coping skills. A positive-creative attitude can help you view stress as a challenge rather than a problem or threat and as an opportunity to learn and grow rather than a setback. A positive-creative attitude can also help you find creative ways to manage and reduce your stress, such as by using humor, relaxation, or hobbies.
• Improving your health: A positive-creative attitude can help you improve your health, by enhancing your immune system, lowering your blood pressure, and reducing your risk of chronic diseases. A positive-creative attitude can also help you adopt healthier behaviors, such as eating well, exercising regularly, and sleeping enough. A positive-creative attitude can also help you recover faster from illnesses and injuries, by boosting your healing and recovery processes.
• Enhancing your happiness: A positive-creative attitude can help you enhance your happiness, by increasing your positive emotions, such as joy, gratitude, and love, and by decreasing your negative emotions, such as anger, fear, and sadness. A positive-creative attitude can also help you find meaning and purpose in your life, by aligning your actions with your values and passions. A positive-creative attitude can also help you improve your relationships, by fostering trust, empathy, and cooperation.
• Achieving your dreams: A positive-creative attitude can help you achieve your dreams, by enabling you to overcome obstacles, seize opportunities, and create your own reality. A positive-creative attitude can help you set and pursue realistic and challenging goals, by boosting your confidence, motivation, and persistence. A positive-creative attitude can also help you generate and implement new and innovative ideas, by stimulating your imagination, curiosity, and flexibility. A positive-creative attitude is essential for your personal and professional success, as well as for your well-being and happiness. A positive-creative attitude can help you cope with stress, improve your health, and enhance your mood. It can also help you achieve your dreams, by enabling you to overcome obstacles, seize opportunities, and create your own accomplished existence.

How to Cultivate a Positive-Creative Attitude

A positive-creative attitude is a mindset that can be learned and practiced, by using various strategies and techniques, such as:

• Reframe your thoughts: Reframe your thoughts is a technique that involves changing the way you think about a situation, by replacing negative and limiting thoughts with positive and empowering thoughts. For example, instead of thinking “I can’t do this”, think “I can do this if I try hard and learn from my mistakes”. Instead of thinking “This is a problem”, think “This is a challenge that I can overcome”. Instead of thinking “This is boring”, think “This is an opportunity to learn something new”.
• Use affirmations: Use affirmations is a technique that involves repeating positive and encouraging statements to yourself, either aloud or in your mind, to boost your self-esteem, confidence, and motivation. For example, you can say to yourself “I am capable and creative”, “I can achieve anything I set my mind to”, or “I am worthy and deserving of happiness and success”.
• Practice gratitude to God: Practice gratitude, primarily to Jesus, is a technique that involves expressing appreciation for God to the things and people that you have in your life, either by writing them down, saying them aloud, or showing them through your actions. For example, you can reserve a daily moment to thank Jesus by writing a gratitude journal, where you list three things that you are grateful to God for every day. You can also say thank you to the people who help you or support you or do something nice for them. As we cultivate a mindset of gratitude, we always find ourselves discovering numerous reasons to thank God Almighty each day.
• Exercise the 478-Psalm 23 Meditative Breathing Technique: Are you feeling scared, stressed, depressed, worried or anxious? Do you find it difficult to relax and rest after a tiring day? Is your blood pressure high? Are you disappointed, disillusioned, angry, angry, hateful? Do you have insomnia, or difficulty sleeping? Are you giving a class, conference, or lecture? Are you experiencing turmoil on your journey? Are you having a panic attack? If so, the 478-Psalm 23 Meditative Breathing Technique may be just what you need to calm your mind and relax your body. Visit the link to learn more about 478-Psalm 23 Meditative Breathing Technique. [1]
• Seek inspiration: Seek inspiration is a technique that involves exposing yourself to new and diverse sources of information, ideas, and experiences, to stimulate your creativity and broaden your perspective. For example, you can attend church services, read books, watch movies, listen to music, or visit museums that are related or unrelated to your field of interest. You can also talk to people who have different backgrounds, opinions, and expertise or travel to places that are unfamiliar or exotic.
• Brainstorm ideas: Brainstorm ideas is a technique that involves generating as many ideas as possible, without judging or evaluating them, to explore different possibilities and solutions. For example, you can use a pen and paper, a whiteboard, or a computer to write down or draw your ideas or use a voice recorder or a video camera to speak or act out your ideas. You can also use tools, such as mind maps, lists, or diagrams, to organize and visualize your ideas.
• Experiment and prototype: Experiment and prototype is a technique that involves testing and refining your ideas, by creating and using models, samples, or simulations, to evaluate at a small scale their feasibility and effectiveness. For example, you can use materials, such as paper, cardboard, clay, or Lego, to build a physical prototype of your idea, or use software, such as PowerPoint, Photoshop, or SketchUp, to create a digital prototype of your idea. You can also use methods, such as Deming PDCA, surveys, interviews, or observations, to collect feedback and data on your idea.

Remember, a positive-creative attitude is a mindset that can be learned and practiced, by using various strategies and techniques, such as reframing your thoughts, using affirmations, practicing gratitude, exercising 478-psalm 23 meditative breathing technique, seeking inspiration, brainstorming ideas, and experimenting with and prototyping. These strategies and techniques can help you develop and improve your positive thinking and creative thinking skills and enhance your positive-creative attitude. [1. 2. 3]

In conclusion, in this Collaborative Intelligence post, we have explained what a positive-creative attitude is, why it is important, and how to cultivate it. We have shown that a positive-creative attitude is a combination of positive thinking and creative thinking, which are two skills that can be learned and practiced. A positive-creative attitude can help you cope with stress, improve your health, and enhance your happiness. It can also help you achieve your dreams, by enabling you to overcome obstacles, seize opportunities, and create your own reality.

A positive-creative attitude is a mindset that helps you overcome challenges, embrace opportunities, and pursue your goals with confidence and joy. A positive-creative attitude can help you transform your life, and make your dreams come true. In one of my books, The Power to Change Your Story: Transformation from Inside Out, I describe how having a positive attitude is one of the key elements to succeed in life.

References:

[1]Aecio  Dsilva. (2022). The Power to Change Your Story: Transformation from Inside Out – 12 Principles/Steps for You Never To Be The Same (Kindle-English Edition) Moura-Enterprises Publishing House. US

[2] K. Weir, “The science behind creativity”, Monitor on Psychology, vol. 53, no. 3, 2022.https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/04/cover-science-creativity

[3] Mayo Clinic Staff, “Positive thinking: Reduce stress by eliminating negative self-talk”, Mayo Clinic, 2022.https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950