E-lim-inate the Neg-a-tive!

Here’s a challenge. Write a list of all the negative things in and affecting your life. Now write a list of all the positive things do the same. Now strip naked, put on strategic whipped cream and dance my puppet dance!!
Oh alright not the last one… right now….

Let me guess the list of negatives outweighs the positives 2 to 1? If I’m right you buy me dinner if I’m wrong, oh well, it happens.

Look negative things, people and particles are everywhere! We get bombarded by negative press and pessimistic views from everyone, often including our own inner voices who geez, need to take a chill pill once in a while!

Some negatives we just can’t get away from, the whiny boss who flies off the handle if you ‘look at him funny-like’, the mother in law whose tongue is the only sharp part about her, the clingy ex who stalks your house and reads your mail and takes all your free samples, or even the news telling us how another toddler got mauled by the pet poodle, isn’t it interesting, oh sad, of course, but interesting hey?

What we have to do is learn to recognize these negativity creators and to realize that they do not control us! We are not passive creatures in our own lives.
Why not start to disassociate yourself from as much of the negative as you can, rather then just take it up the backside and hope that gosh, it will get better. Newsflash little one, it’s not gonna get better and if you just leave it then you’re liable to have it get a whole lot more nasty!

So why not start off small? Maybe ignore the news today, the world will get on without you, promise. If you tend to drink too much coffee, why not balance it out with a glass of water and/or fruit juice between cups? If you feel you’re not getting enough exercise, schedule in a walk with a friend, park your car at the other end of the mall, or heck, bounce around madly to music at home and hope the local peeping tom doesn’t have a youtube account!

Then try move on to bigger things. If your boss tends to rant and rave, let them have their frothing mouth moment, say thank you and continue on with what you’re doing, noting valid criticism and put the rest down to the fact that he’s just being hormonal. Got flipped the bird in traffic this morning and cut off more times then when you phone customer care? So what? You made it to your destination alive, that’s usually a good thing!
Good guys 1
Idiots 0!

Life is based largely on how you view things. Even when you can’t possibly make a negative situation into something good, you can still see the little bit of good in it, pitiful though it might be! Death comes, but aren’t you glad you got to know the person who died and that they were in your life? You get fired? A chance to find work you really will enjoy! The whole world dies of a massive virus and you’re the only one left alone? No more work stress and you can finally read all those books you were planning to!

You have choice, exercise it!
Blast that negative into bite sized chunks! Find the positives in a situation, however small they may be!
You get one life.
This one!!!
Why waste a second more on ugliness then you absolutely have to?!

(Unless you believe in reincarnate in which case here’s hoping you come back as a squirrel with no more worries then the state of your nuts…)

A dash of salt

" Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!"***
~ Audrey Hepburn



***Mind I still haven't seen anyone soaring off buildings flapping their hands, or walking through walls or de-aging 50 years back to their childhood.
So maybe believe in the impossible, strive to be the best you can be and always make sure there's a safty net, just in case, because some stains are impossible to remove...

~ Sparky Jo

See what we shall see!

Remember as a kid how you used to spend ages looking at clouds and finding the fascinating creatures within them? Why did you ever stop?

Cloud watching can be vastly entertaining and all it requires is a warm day (You can do it on cold days too if you don't mind 3rd degree frostbite on your unmentionables), a little sunscreen (That solar ball is rather giving in the melanoma department) and the optional friend or two to sit with you and be unable to see all the figures you’re pointing out because they must be doff, man look, the leg is over there! Over there! *points frantically in vague direction!*

I like to watch clouds as I walk. That one looks like a dog! That one like a dragon reading a book! That one looks like a harp and that one looks like a… OHMIWORD!!!

It’s especially fun when you see an oddly shaped cloud mass and your brain goes into overtime determined to find out what it could be… like maybe it’s a dinosaur with half his leg missing, a mustache and a big floral hat on! Yeah, must be a French dinosaur!

(Of course I’ve also had times when my cloud watching went something along the lines of, “Oh it looks like a bird! And now like a thunderhead that’s going to…” with the rest drowned out as a few 100 000 liters of water proceed to decent upon my head. So remember, timing helps.)

You can even take it a step further and join the Cloud Appreciation society!
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Or get some folk together, raise money, claim it's a religious group and watch out for the Great Cloud God to send you messages from the sky! It's your wonky world, go wild!

But, in the end, it’s a nice, day dreamy, immensely satisfying way to spend a chunk of day. Not to mention a lovely way to bond and be silly with your friends, kids or loved one. Young, old or the one pretending to be the other, either way it’s something everyone can really enjoy! So don’t be stodgy! Go lie on the grass look at the sky and see where your mind takes you!
(Oh alright use a blanket if you have allergies or fear ants crawling where they shouldn’t but just get out the house already! *Makes shooing motion* Out! Out! Out!)

Simple truth

It is impossible to look ugly with a smile!!

Oh dear they have me cornered

‎"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." —William Gibson

Introductions!

I always find that life is terribly entertaining! There is so much to see and do and feel and smell and eat up really, really fast so you don't have to share! (Oh alright you can have some too!)

But I've also noticed a lot of times, people never seem to well, stop and take the time, to enjoy all of them! They speed along like little flesh-nosed bullets, here to there, to there, to there to over there and back again, damn wrong turn, aaaargh!!

And wow, can they complain! I've met folk who have so much in the world and are mean ass, nasty, scary little sausages! Too many get caught up in the whole game of, "Look at me! Look at me! I'm better then you!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Ow, my ulcer..."

So I thought I'd add a few ideas here to get your mind churning and maybe, just maybe, make you see there is really a lot of awesome stuff out there when you know how to look! Extra positive vibes and good stuff is always worth sharing and I would so love to have you as a friend along for the ride!

So let's see what's out there already!
*Tags you, pulls tongue and races out the doorway!!*