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Each day for the month of December, I’ll be posting one of Marc and Angel’s “30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself” with a little commentary from yours truly.
29) Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen. – Focus on what you do want to happen. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, you’ll often find that you’re right.
Don’t be a Negative Nelly. Worrying about the bad things that could happen will only make you miss all the good things that are already happening. You can’t predict the future, so you might as well hope for the best.
Reblogged this on Late Nights, Food, and Some Strong Medicine and commented:
My original thoughts for my blog post today were going to be completely different from this, but I saw this post and it made a lot of sense to me. The majority of my hesitation with medicine is focused on what I don’t want to happen. I don’t want to apply and not get in. I don’t want to have to choose between an acceptance letter and my relationship, should my boyfriend and I not get into the same school. And I don’t want to be faced with the reality that I might get in, and he may not, even though he has been completely set on medicine from a young age and has no idea what he would do otherwise, and would resent me for going to medical school without him. And I don’t want to start medical school and realize that I hate it. I guess I am a bit of a “Negative Nelly,” always worrying about things I have absolutely no control over. I am trying to stop… but it isn’t as easy as just a snap of my fingers. So I guess all I can do is wait for that fateful letter and do my best to stay focused on the positive things, like the fact that biochemistry is over and next semester should be better. I need to learn to take things one day at a time instead of spending each day worrying about where I will be in ten years.