When we think about future, first we are going to get to mind is Fear and sometimes we are going to have Blind confidence. Often the self help books or people advise you to be confident and think positive about the future. I assume most of us will not understand what exactly mean “Think positive” unless we invest our precious time in thinking about it. Man or anything exists is made up of both good and bad things, it is like a same coin of different sides. When we have capability to think negative how can we suppress it and think only positive?

Everyone has to face both positive and negative side of the life and no escape from that. But you can keep your mind from upsetting while facing the negative side of life

In reality, you cannot think only positive unless you are true spiritual leaders. Those who are leading a material life (I mean, those who associate themselves with materials like this is my car, I am expert in writing books, etc…) and enjoying cannot think positive all the time.  Because every material also has both properties of good and bad, it can visible to us any time. In reality, you opted for material life, don’t crib just face the music.

 Any situation if you don’t have enough skill or strength to handle will be called as a problem - don’t hesitate to define your own J

One of the reasons may be we cannot think always positive is we interact with different types of people daily who got different mind-sets, different types of unknown problems we face and there is a natural change in the whole universe. This kind of interactions and the feelings changes due to various reasons makes our self very unstable and make us to think negative most of the time.  

We are disturbed about our future not because any fear, original reason is you will be thinking always either past or future which is never born yet. Current work which you are doing you will ignore and you will get the unexpected output or less output than expected. As day passes mistakes which you are doing will also increase, one day these mistakes will become big and it will stand in front of you to challenge your capabilities. If you fail to address it, that’s where it starts unhappiness or you will have upset feelings. Who created this problem? It is YOU created due to your own ignorance of past and today you are facing the problem and most of the time you blame the god or nature power for this problem.

Problem will not end over there itself, during the process of solving the problem, again you will be thinking either future or past, you will again create either new problem or you will fail to solve the old problems itself. It continues… it eats all your life energy in solving all the time, silly problems. Remember, solving new problems will enhance your knowledge. But, repeating the mistake is what makes you more unsuccessful and that exposes that you are stagnant in learning new things in daily life. Those who do not have intention to learn things in daily life by increasing knowledge through books, by talking to people, by analyzing the environment, etc… will always face hard problems for sure. Like it or not you will face it, to know about this, think how many problems you repeated in your past life? Repetition of problems means you did not have enough knowledge to solve the problem, so you are getting the same problem back in daily life.

When you face a problem, if you have analyzed the problem and solve it, then you could have learnt it and when u face the same problem after solving it, you may not treat it as a problem in most cases. But, if you are lazy you might fail to apply known solutions also.

Till you understand what the problem mean? And how did we created, you cannot mitigate problems in daily life and also you cannot have confidence about future.

“Think only positive about the future” I will not agree this for material life. But I believe “Try to think positive more than 75% about the future” will be more valid for people like us who leads material life. To think more than 75% positive and to be happy in daily life you might need to think of following suggestions and try to implement it:

• Fool less people
• Reduce guilt in your mind
• Increasing the readings of various topics about life which includes your career books too. I don’t mean read 100 topics, I just mean start reading books, and it will give capability to cover more type of books(again, I don’t mean only books if you have access to good people around you, talk to them and learn from their experience). More you gain knowledge from various sources, it reduces ignorance’s and give more tools to solve your daily problems
• Keep limit for your selfishness about the family, friends. Extend your contributions to unknown people (society) too.
• Focus more on what you are trying to do currently. If you are enjoying party, just enjoy it. If you are reading book, just focus on it and read it. Work out to eliminate disturbance in your mind, if there is any kind of disturbance in your surroundings it doesn’t matter.
• Success or Failure is just a state of mindset, don’t worry about past problems. Just try to solve current problem properly.
• Talk to people as it is, without hiding things in most cases.

Think deep about each point, understand it, try to map to your situation, have some kind of plan to implement at least one point by taking your own time, even if you are successful in implementing by taking one whole year, it is still worth since you are going to live for long.

Let me explain some more about Future and will leave you to think how much true it is for yourself. First and far most it, we do not have RIGHTS to think either positive or negative about the future because it’s never born yet. If you are thinking negative like I am going to die tomorrow, how can you expect you will be alive till tomorrow?  If you are thinking tomorrow you will win a lottery, how can you expect that? But, there is a difference here between those 2 methods of thinking, when we think of positive things about future we feel very good, it increases our energy level up and makes us to do our current work better.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is - Bhagavad Gita

When people ask us, will you become millionaire in future? People will hesitate to answer “yes”. But, you have to remember before turning anything into action, you should get some thought about it, and then you will try to convert into action and see some kind of result. If people ask any kind of question to you, try to think and answer more % positively (If you work out above mentioned points, you can increase confidence). The more you give positive answer, you will get good feelings and you might try to work hard and achieve what you want. After all you are just answering (theory) about the future, have full confidence in you and just try to answer positive.

Let me give one more reason why you need to answer confidently or think confidently, When you come back home from office you will spend some time and go to bed by thinking that tomorrow you are going to go office. Instead you will not think like “If I am alive tomorrow with the god grace I will go to office and write that document”. In each every moment you will not think like this kind of negative thought but you are well known the any moment you might die. This explains that by default everyone has capability to think positive; we just need to extend to all levels of our daily life as much as possible. Same positive thinking will make you to have a big goal in life and have confident about that you are going to achieve it in future.

In an object-A, if you enjoy the positive side, negative side of the same object-A will be a like a puzzle (or a tunnel) to go to next object-B to enjoy the positive side again. During solving the puzzle of object-A if you solve it with some mistakes you might end up in a negative side of the next object-B first, after solving this new puzzle of object-B you might end up enjoying the positive side of the same object-B and continues… till you die