Now let's say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what's on your mind?
The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.
Here's another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?
You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.
Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearancen too, unless, of course, you are a great actor.
And it doesn't end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.
The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.
Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.
Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.
A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.
We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely carry a positive attitude.
You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. Projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.
A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you will love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others are around feel the same way.
A negative attitude, on the other hand, has, of course, an opposite effect. So, carrying a negative attitude has a twofold drawback. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.
If you want to have a positive attitude, you have to feature healthy thoughts. This is probably very hard to do nowadays since, all around us, the media feeds us nothing but negative thoughts. A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.
If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think happy thoughts, and you have to hear positive things as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimuli, which in turn promotes positive attitude.
Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.
And this positive attitude you now carry can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.
If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to adopt a negative attitude instead? One who carries a negative attitude may be actually sending a signal for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.
As always, if you are beset by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the good things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome.
You do not have much to lose by adopting a healthy, positive attitude. Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So, what's not to like about a positive attitude? Adopt one today.
American antiques moments of the appplication of humor to make a point are many, and most good stories have been well repeated. My recent article about the application of humor by Dr. Benjamin Franklin at the family estate of his English patron,my ancestor Sir Francis, was well received, and went to more relevant sites, 1,165 than ever before. And I notice one of the sites was wise parenting, which,come to think of it (which I had not to this viewpoint), Sir francis was the understanding parent encouraging young Ben to show up the the stuffy head table groupies and see how they would feel.
In this brave situation Benjamin Franklin preceded in this mockery of King George, soon followed with far more eloquence young Tom Jefferson would soon express in his Declaration of Independence. In the case of Franklin he dared sail to England and in front of America's tormenters, make a mockery of the recent Edict of King George with his fictitious Edict from the King of Prussia, taking over England and the colonies. This would make light of the mad King and see how he might react by this mockery Franklin had made of the King's Edict, now posted in all town centers in America.
Franklin's Edict from the King of Prussia, which he had read to many of the King's Parliamentary Cabinet, at the home of his patron and Cabinet Minister Sir Francis to the disruption of many, had inverted King George's Edict to one against the people of Britain. The assembled gentlemen, red faced, embarrassed, forced to laugh at themselves, felt some understanding of how if felt to walk in American mocasins. However, word to the King of this treasonous mockery was as quick as a horse could be whipped quickly back to King George.
Dr. Franklin received a quick Royal Escort to the Tower for treason. So far, a mis fire of a prank to make a point. Point taken, unforseen re-action as well. If this was a fable, which it is not, Sir Francis would happen to be a favorite of the mad king, which he was, and was soon on one knee pleading for the forgiveness of his majesty. Sir Francis pleaded to a king slipping in and out of madness: dear old Ben has served the Empire well as Post Master General of North America, which is to say the United states or Colonies of America, and Canada, conquered by Britain only in 1759.
Dr. Franklin had been appointed by Sir Francis in 1760 to overview the full network of communication between Montreal to Savanah, at which he had excelled in seeing postal roads completed between all. His scientific discoveries were a boon to all mankind, he was not a rebel. Was too.
You can do this too. And now imagine how such a mind works, and recall this is one who almost killed himself playing with lightning, until he learned to harness those bolts from the size of the right metal rod at the high point (zap), and run a wire down the side of your house, your barn (zap), and play with how far and large the rod is that you pound (zap) into the ground. And then choose not to patent this (zap?) as a benefit to all the people of the world. How out of his mind and his thinking, his brilliant electrically charged mind and original approach, Dr. Franklin's viewpoint teaches us yet.
-Elevate, even exagerate, achievement.
-Mock an obvious folly but with a twist.
-If attacked, return their volley as a mirror.
-Never use cutting humor, disect theirs.
-Keep your humor light, fun, open to participation.
-Reflect your humor to show you row your own boat.
-You row merrily, and you attract others to you.
-As you deflect bitterness, fear, answers appear.
-And humor as with Mark Twain should elevate, not desecrate. Ever.Any more.
And whether you are in Paris, Persia or Panama, your good soul should see you through; but take care. Back in 1700's Philadelphia, Dr. Franklin's City of Brotherly Love, remember he escaped there as a boy after having taken one beating too often back in never forgiving Boston of Puritan prissiness, the rack, the whip. you can do this: think deeply of the times, and while they seem hard, you would have got by with less in the time of Dr. Franklin.
His Poor Richard's Almanac is about due for a re printing with it's humor, wit, and how to survive on a few pence a week. No wonder the pirates, starting with Sir Walter Raleigh, made ample all those Spanish dollars and cut them up as they were pure silver, so half a half a half gave your parrot some pieces of eight to squak about. And something for us to feel proud of: pirates in our blood, our American antiques history, our resilience, our humor.
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