Do you have a hard time listening to or watching the news? If you are like me, you have probably noticed and been troubled by the barrage of negativity and hate that has pounded us in the mainstream media. Police versus citizens, black versus white, Clinton versus Trump, us versus them. Such division and hate. […]
Just be yourself, because everybody else is taken. I first encountered this message on the profile of a young Facebook friend. Now Alex Boye’ has captured it in a song. This inspired me, so I thought to pass it along to you. Thanks for being who you are – nobody else can do it! Choice
You’ve heard the question a hundred times: “Is the glass half empty or half full?” If we are operating in noxious negativity mode we see the glass as half empty. It is absolutely true. It is half empty. Of course it is. Any dang fool can see it’s half empty. When we are
How sure are you that six o’clock is coming? Pretty darn sure? How sure are you that you will be around for six o’clock? Almost as sure? Yes, six o’clock is coming, and most likely we are going to be around for six o’clock. I used to think that there were three options – I
What have you noticed about problems and challenges? polemecatech.com/bad-credit-loans-personal-money-collateral If you are like most people, you encounter problems and challenges on a regular basis, and some of them don’t seem to go away. Keeping a positive perspective through these challenges is essential to our mental health and sense of happiness. This positive attitude and perspective
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A video clip from an advertisement for Becel Heart Healthy Products features two people going up an escalator. The escalator suddenly clunks to an abrupt stop. “Oh, that’s not good,” one says, as the other complains, “I don’t need this. I’m already late!” They shout for help. Their need for rescue echoes off the walls of
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To manifest great things we must do a little more work than we may have anticipated, but less than we fear. Remember, stuff just sits there until you move it. Water runs downhill until you add pipes and pressure to alter its course. Cake ingredients are just ingredients until someone mixes and bakes them. There
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Is there a program or process that propels us predictably to unprecedented personal power, productivity, and profit? Yes. Pathological Positivity. Our planet is plagued with a pandemic of poisonous pessimism. The popular perception of painful or perturbing problems is pathogenically paralyzing. Pathological Positivity programs and positions us to perceive positive possibilities in problems. It inspires and provokes people to
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What is the biggest barrier to happiness, success, prosperity? Fear and worry. Fear gets in our way more than anything else I know. When we feel fear, we have a natural avoidance response. It is built in – automatic. Avoidance brings with it short term relief, but in the long run makes the fear worse. After we
When you turn on a flashlight, you see a little spot of light projected wherever you point the device. Have you ever seen a flashdark? This is a device that projects a little spot of dark wherever you point it. Not! Similarly, what happens when you open a dark closet in a brightly lit room?
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