Find a way to celebrate more often.
Yes, sometimes life can be dull. Yes, it can be dreary. Periodically, it is even painful.
However, that’s probably not the majority of time.
Check Your Body Language Regularly
If you’re not smiling, make an attempt to do so.
Negative moods are caused by “stuck thoughts.” When that happens, get up for a few minutes and change your environment. Spend some time walking or call a friend or just breathe deeply. Change your focus – even if it’s only for a short time.
You’ll notice that your mood lifts almost immediately.
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Join the Seven-day Positivity Challenge!
Every Monday for the last several years I’ve sent out the Monday Motivational Memo (“MMM)”. It’s designed to help you move forward with whatever is holding you back and always offers some small piece of advice.
For the first time in the several hundred MMMs that I’ve sent out, I’m changing the format.
I’m asking YOU to spread a very positive message.
Please join me in making this go viral. The details are below.
My friend, mentor, and Zumba instructor, Greg Parnell, inspired me with this idea. He posted on my Facebook page, three items for which he was grateful and then he challenged me to do the same for seven days.
I accepted this, and I thought
“With all the negativity in the world right now, wouldn’t it a great way to remind us of what’s going well?”
What am I asking you to do?
Video: Starbucks Customers Pay it Forward 378 Times
This video is way too cool.
One customer decided to pay for the drink for the next customer in the drive through and each subsequent customer did the same for 11 hours.
Verbs Versus Nouns
Language evolves; it’s a living entity.
As example, in the 1700s, what was a “butt-plate?”
If you thought it to be the 18th century version of shape wear or something on which you placed your “pratts” (buttocks), you’d be completely wrong. Rather, it was the metal plate at the “butt end” of a musket, used to protect the wood and possibly make the butt a better weapon unto itself.
Moving into the late 1800s, “seven miles behind the moon,” had nothing to do with astronomy. Rather, it was a way of saying someone was “crazy,” or “out there.”
We needn’t look too far into the past to see this evolution.
In our lifetimes alone, the use of words has drastically changed. I’m probably the only person on the planet who still uses the term “righteously bitchen.” Yet when I was a teen, that manifestation was about as common as platform shoes and aviator glasses. Now it’s heard as often as we see pet rocks.
This year, the latest additions to Webster’s dictionary included “crowdfunding,” “selfie,” and “fracking;” three terms that would have made its users seem seven miles behind the moon in the very recent past. [Read more…]