About six weeks ago Chris Cree brought up the possibility that negative thinking might have some power in SuccessCreeations. I’m still on the fence with that one.
My vote then was for what I called the “equalizer”, the spot between negative and positive where we realize things need to be and/or are going to change. The spot where we face and address the reality of our situations and decide what action to take.
After some thought, though, it can’t be a simple spot. That place needs to be a plateau. We need time and space to put the clutch in, shift gears and maybe even stop the car. Today, I tend to agree with Chris that we can’t use positive thoughts to forget or ignore unpleasant negative realities.
From Norman Vincent Peale’s “The Power Of Positive Thinking” to friends who say “just think happy thoughts”, we have the idea we can think ourselves out of trouble. Well, we can think and wish all we want, but we still wake up in Kansas unless we act.
"We shouldn’t live in such fear of the term “negative” that it keeps us from facing reality." ~~Chris Cree
2 comments:
The flip side, Carolyn is to not let ourselves get over obsessed with the negative either. Our best bet is to face our negative reality and move on. Like you said, we have act.
The past might as well not exist because it only has the power over us that we allow it to have.
Yeah, Chris. Facing the negative and moving on is really a tough balancing act sometimes. You're right, we have to release ourselves from the power of the past and move on.
Carolyn
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