If we can’t see our future, how are we going to get there?
Gen X ladies, are you having a difficult time really seeing your future? Do you look ahead and see a mundane life, disappointment and worry or are you looking forward with anticipation, curiosity and joy? Maybe you aren’t even looking forward at all and thinking I’m just going to keep chugging along in hopes I get to happy.
The way we see our future plays a tremendous role in what our future looks like and it’s through a lens of positivity that your future will continue to get brighter
In this episode, we’re talking about prospection and how to create a more positive outlook for your future.
What is prospection? Prospection is part of the positive psychology movement. For decades, psychology was about dismantling the past in order to create a better future, focusing over and over AND OVER on what didn’t go right, what shaped you, what defined you.
Positive psychology focuses on your strengths, what’s good, to get you to your goals. Prospection is the study of how daydreaming, planning, envisioning, and imagining your future can be a powerful tool for helping you actually attain the future you want.
Sure, Positive Psychology is a fairly new concept that came into play only within the last 20 years or so. Prior to this, psychology was all about healing the mental challenges bringing back into focus negative happenings and emphasizes them as a way to heal.
Martin Seligman is the ‘founder’ of Positive Psychology - and started bringing new concepts to psychology. The concepts of focusing on haplessness all to create a more positive outlook on life ultimately providing a more positive outcome in life.
In research studies on prospection and positive psychology. Those who consider themselves happiest tend to imagine positive future scenarios for themselves.
We need to be able to envision our happier future. Often times when we work with clients and ask them about what they would like their life to look like in six months, they aren’t even able to articulate it.
This is where the work we do comes in. While we might consciously CHOOSE a positive outlook if our SCM is set to negativity then when it takes over (95% of the day) then that’s our Resting Place ie our Resting Mind. We need to make conscious, consistent, metered efforts to shift our mindset 8% of the time, so we are closing the gap between our conscious goals and subconscious settings.
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