Why do we focus mainly on the negative? Do we ever get excited and say, “Wow, my computer is working great today!” or “someone let me get in front of them when I was driving”, or “work was nice today?” Not usually, we seem to ignore all the wonderful tiny life details, but when something goes wrong, watch out, cuz we just can’t seem to stop talking about it.
Could this be true with you as well? Do you take time to recognize all the thousands of amazing but not so obvious great things that take place in a day?
This week, in fact lets just say today, acknowledge all of the things that go right, then watch as more of the same seem to mysteriously appear.
As you better yourself, you better the world
This is a great post. I know how hard it can be sometimes to focus on the positive.
Thank you for your comment. I woke up the morning my blog posted and was just feeling “off,”so I made a list 50 things that did go right in the past 4 hours and just changing my focus on the positive completely changed my day.
On another note, you have a wonderful blog 🙂
That’s a great idea and I’m happy you did so many great things! Thank you for the kind words about my blog.
I need to do this too….lately it seems that everything is going wrong.
Perhaps the thing that is going wrong is the way that I am looking at things.
I need to make the list of the things that are going right. It is the end of the day, and I am still alive. 😉
Mary, sorry I did not see your comment earlier. I hope things are going better for you. Even though it may not be easy to change focus when things seem to be going wrong in every area, it will definitely ease the stress when you place your attention on all that is going right. I like this quote
“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.”
Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901)
writer and clergyman