Right out of nowhere, my 8-year-old son, Garrett, asked me, “Dad, why are there more bad things happening in the world than good things?”
“Why do you think that, son?”
“Well, every time I hear you watching the news it sounds like just all bad things are happening.”
I sat for a moment in silence. I thought about the negatively-slanted-media-bombarded world we live in. We all are getting our dim, dismal, daily dose of disaster, aren’t we?
What to do? Stop reading the paper? Stop watching the news, looking at the evening stock reports? Perhaps, but is there an alternative to living uninformed and ignorant? I believe there is. If our daily dose is our problem, could it also be our solution?
What if we developed a habit of injecting a little mental magic, some positive perception, some spiritual oomph into each day? We wouldn’t let a day pass without feeding our bellies, shouldn’t we also endeavor to daily feed our personal development, program our minds with possibilities, buoy up our hearts with optimism?
Grab a book, listen to a positive podcast, watch a hilarious YouTube bit, phone an optimistic friend, subscribe to an uplifting blog. Develop a habit of getting your daily dose of power and possibility, brightness, hope and anticipation. Give yourself the gift that inoculates you from the setbacks and worries of our daily disasters. With that positive daily dose of energy and optimism, life will just get better and better and better.
“Hey, good job, Dad! Now can we go watch that cool Nova science program?”
