In Case No One Told You Today
Even the most ardent positive thinkers need a morale boost once in a while and one tried-and-true way to get this boost, is through positive affirmations. Our mind is powerful and if we feed it with good things, we get positivity. Continue reading “In Case No One Told You Today”
One of the greatest challenges to being a positive person, is being around toxic people. We all know them…we’ve all had to deal with them and the important thing to remember is, we can’t let other people bring us down.
I once heard a Teacher tell a vulnerable classmate “you’ll never amount to anything….” at the time, I didn’t like what she had said, but I didn’t give it much thought. When I think back to that cruel declaration, I realize that this teacher was a strangler.
I’ve had days when I haven’t felt quite good enough — not smart enough, not qualified or capable enough — basically, that I just wasn’t enough of the really good things. On those days, reality and perception can be very blurry.
Love is so incredibly powerful and healing — and miraculously, its free to all and in infinite supply. We write about love a great deal on this blog and for good reason — love is the foundation for almost all wonderful things.
Positivity is so much more than just thinking good thoughts or looking for the bright side. An important aspect of positivity isn’t just being positive — it’s also realizing how valuable and important each of us truly are.
“I just want to be happy.” “I want to be a more positive person.” How many people, perhaps even yourself, have made these statements? We all want to be happy and positive — who on earth wouldn’t? The sad thing is though, too many people who say they want it…don’t even bother trying.
Why are messages and stories of hope and optimism so absent in our culture? We certainly hear enough of the negative, so why aren’t we reading and hearing more about the positive? A good question and one that I know many of us ask regularly, but alas, its one that has a very complicated answer.
It’s easy for us to forget about the things in life that really matter. Caught up in the daily grind, spending hours surfing social media, watching the polarizing news — all of a sudden, we forget about the things in our life that have the most value and remembering them gets harder.
We’ve posted a number of articles recently about the rise in dishonesty — half-truths, conspiracy theories and intentionally spread disinformation. We’ve covered this, because we can’t ever claim to be good or positive people if we purposely spread lies. Dishonesty, is a decidedly negative, dark trait.