The Power of Positive Thinking

February 22, 2014 by ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~ 1 Comment

I bought this book a month ago. I am almost through it and I love it!

The mind is a powerful thing. Prayer is a power thing.

I truly believe that there’s so much negativity in the world, we’d be better off if we’d all embrace a positive outlook.

I have been doing some serious soul-searching. I shared some of that here.

To be our best, I believe that everyone needs to find their baseline happy. That’s so other people in their life only add to the happy.

Zach likes to refer to it as the (er) in happy. He’s happy. His kids make him happy(er). He’s happy. His family makes him happy(er). Horses make him happy(er). I make him happy(er). The list goes on.

If there’s no baseline happy, it’s hard to have any sort of passion. In order for a relationship to work, be it with our horse, with our dog, or with another human (adult or child), you’ve got to be whole to be part of that “pair”. If a person isn’t whole(ly happy on their own), nature dictates that the vacuum created must try to draw from other sources.

We’ve all heard it.

We’ve all probably done it.

If only I get [insert something you want], I will be happy.

If I could do [insert something you want], I will be happy.

Instead what we should say is, “I am happy in my circumstance and I will do what I can to affect the change(s) I want to have happen, but I will smile while I try and be happy in the fact that I can try”.

We need to find the blessings in our everyday life – our health, or family, or friends, or dreams we have. If we were forced to make a list of good-in-our-life vs. bad-in-our-life, I think we’d find the good outweighs the bad (and the book will ask you to do just that!).

Have you read this book? Did you find it helpful?

Happy Trails!

About ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~

Jenn Zeller is the creative mind and boss lady behind The South Dakota Cowgirl. She is an aspiring horsewoman, photographer, brilliant social media strategist and lover of all things western.

After a brief career in the investment world to support her horse habit (and satisfy her mother, who told her she had to have a “real” job after graduating college), she finally took the leap and stepped away from a regular income; trading the business suit once and for all for cowgirl boots, a hat, and jeans. She has not looked back.

When Jenn first moved to The DX Ranch on the South Dakota plains, she never imagined she’d find herself behind a camera lens capturing an authentic perspective of ranching, and sharing it with others. Jenn has always been called to artistry, and uses music, writing, images, home improvement, and her first true love of horses to express her ranching passion.

Horses are the constant thread and much of her work centers around using her unique style of writing to share her horsemanship journey with others in publications such as CavvySavvy, the AQHA Ranching Blog, the West River Eagle, the family ranch website, and her own website.

Using photography to illustrate her stories has created other opportunities -- Jenn’s brand “The South Dakota Cowgirl” has grown to the level of social media “Influencer”. This notoriety has led to work with Duluth Trading Company, Budweiser, Wyoming Tourism, Vice, Circle Z Ranch and Art of the Cowgirl, to name a few. She also serves as a brand ambassador for Woodchuck USA, Arenus Equine Health, Triple Crown Feed and Just Strong fitness apparel. Her photography has been featured by Instagram, Apple, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Jenn’s work has been published internationally, has been seen in several books and has graced the covers of several magazines.

Jenn became a social media influencer by accident when she started to explore Instagram as a way to share her life on the ranch with folks that don’t get to experience it. It’s grown into an incredible platform that she uses to empower women, create an environment for self improvement and share life on the ranch.

When she’s not working, she loves to drink coffee, play with her naughty border collie named Copper, start ranch colts, and run about the country chasing cans. Her mother still thinks she doesn’t have a “real” job.