Being Positive

When I last blogged about positivity I mentioned how difficult it is to change your mindset at first, to constantly have the positive thoughts and attitudes. In reality it took us about a month or 5 weeks to really get into it but one thing I have noticed that prohibits maintaining this new outlook is those around you.

Whether it is coworkers, family members or those people you run into casually they all can change your attitude and thoughts from positive to negative with relative ease. Remember, being 5 or 6 weeks into this new outlook and behavior is easily wrecked or at least temporarily derailed by what has always been the norm and let’s face it, most people behave in that negative is norm mode. You know all of the signs and words, they are all over the place; I feel crummy, I don’t feel so good, everybody is out to cheat me, nobody cares, nobody gets anything for free, this sucks, nothing is going right, I have a right to be down, etc. etc. etc

Well, you are right, you do have the right to be down and you do have the right to feel like nothing is going right and you do have the right to feel like nobody gets anything for nothing, etc, etc, etc BUT you also have the right to feel like everything is going right and the right to feel good and the right to feel you can get something just by believing that you can ask and you shall receive but first you have to believe. If you don’t believe, it won’t happen and you won’t feel better and things won’t go right and you will be right back where you were.

I myself had been thinking of something I wanted to change very much, and this past weekend I was seeing it happen, feeling the good feelings of what was coming and later that day when it was offered to me I replied with a negative comment that reflected what I had come to expect, that something would happen to keep the good thing from happening and you know what? My negative thought did exactly that, it completely killed the chance of what I had been positively seeing and feeling as ready to happen. I, by my own negativity, destroyed that positivity I had been manifesting. We can be and usually are our own worst enemies. What we have to do is become our best friends, our best supporters, our best, most positive beings we can be. Then we can feel and embrace the manifestations we are feeling and creating for ourselves.

So, what do you do when you are around negative influences? Ignore them? Put forth your positivity? Avoid being around them? Be a positive example? This is where, especially in the beginning before all of this new found thinking is second nature, where you have to consciously make the choices and be aware of these influences on you. If this is someone you don’t have to be with, then by all means leave, their negativity puts you in negative environment which can do you no good.

Yesterday I was talking to a contact person at one of the facilities I call on a regular basis, this lady has married a relative of the business owners and now the behind the back comments are making their way back to her about being a gold digger, stuff like that. When I told keepers they said they hoped I had suggested she ignore these people or better yet, let them know exactly how happy she is now and how wonderful her new marriage is, in other words be happy and positive in the face of the negativity and she is right.

We must maintain our new way of thinking to bring about the prosperarity! Positivity brings prosperarity, negativity does not. No one said this would be easy, only that it would change your life, but only if you let it and truly want it, want it enough to change how you think, how you feel, how you feel. The world is yours, all you have to do is truly believe.

Peace and blessings

John Michael

No Way Jose!!! (please, not trying to be offensive to anyone)

I admit it! I am afraid of heights, so there is no way on God's green earth you will ever see me walking out on the new glass skywalk that juts 70 feet over the rim of the Grand Canyon and offers a breathtaking view of a 4000 foot drop!!!!!!!

Would you? I know some people that would go out there and if left alone they would be walking on the top rail like one of the Flying Wallendas! I won't mention any names Josh but if you read this you knew I meant you anyway. I can do roller coaster, giant ferris wheels and to some extent cars on mountain roads, as long as I don't look out the window and see nothing but a sheer dropoff!

I'm not that thrilled with trying to get off of the roof and onto the ladder or getting close to the edge of the roof to lean over and clean out the gutter. Imagine how thrilled I was when on my first day on board the USS Juneau in our US Navy I was told we would be hanging over the side of the ship or hanging from a radar tower to chip paint with a pneumatic paint chipper, of course we had a safety belt on, which made it all the better!

I think it cost people $30 or $40 to go out on the glass sky walk, all I can say is "Why?" I know the Indians are poor and I know this is to being some money in to the tribe but if they get any from me it will just be a donation, no ticket necessary. Or maybe I can donate a ticket to my son in law Josh, he would enjoy it!

Why do I have the feeling that if Alfred Hitchcock was still alive and planning on making Vertigo now, it would have to include this sky walk in some way, shape or form, complete with the cheesy special effects of someone falling off into the canyon!

Well there is my take on this newest of engineering marvels that I have no desire to even be close to. What is your take?

peace, blessings and safety to each of you

John Michael

Not Feeling Well

Wouldn't you know it? I take last Friday and today as vacation days so me and keepers can do some fun stuff together and relax, that kind of stuff, and what happens? We both get a hellacious head cold from hell and just today are starting to feel somewhat normal. This is very counterproductive to my Positivity brings Prosperarity outlook!

When your nose is acting like a lava pit ready to erupt looking at the positives is difficult, except that you are positive it is going to erupt soon. When your head is so clogged up you swear that if you look in a mirror your head is going to be at least twice its normal size, positivity is the last thing on your mind. When you and your SO go through 4 boxes of Kleenex in 3 days, you feel positive about your Kleenex stock value going up but that is about all.

So that is how our last several days is going and has been going. But....and we all know there is always a but (and a however) we did keep as positive as possible, and we did see positive things happen, including feeling a lot better than last night. They are small things but progressive things, little things build on little things and the little things build up to not as little but a little bigger and they build up to hmmmm, thatsa nice! We know this is the way to go, to continue the positivity because it is bringing prosperarity!!

peace and blessings to each of you

john michael

Positivity Brings Prosperarity

According to the Webster-Merriam on line dictionary positivity is defined as follows:

Main Entry: pos·i·tiv·i·ty

1 : the quality or state of being positive

2 : something that is positive

The state of being positive, therefore not negative, which may be one of the most difficult things you have ever attempted. Try changing your outlook, your attitude, your expectations, your viewpoints, your inner and outer beings to being 100% positive. Remove the negative in every avenue of your thoughts. It is not as easy as it sounds because we are so trained in the negative outlook and perceptions from birth right on up?

How do we replace our everyday actions and comments and attitudes with positive ones? How do we acquire that ability? With our minds. We have to make a conscious effort to keep our thoughts 100% positive. When we find ourselves straying we have to make the effort to remove the negative and replace with the positive.

Keepers and I have been doing this for two weeks now, making full out conscious efforts to change our thinking, not only to positivity but also to prosperarity.

You can look prosperarity up in the dictionary, but you won’t find it. I made it up. To me though it is that rare form of prosperity, where we prosper in all aspects of our lives. You can be prosperous money wise, or friend wise or land wise or talent wise, but prosperarity

Is the ability to prosper in many aspects of life, in fact as many as possible, which is indeed a rarity.

As I said earlier, keepers and I have been changing our thought processes for a little over 2 weeks now, and we do see changes already. We see changes in ourselves and in each other. There is way less stress which in turn makes us feel better physically and emotionally. We have been told that we look different, younger and more energized. We have received many blessings already in the form of donations to Keepers Korner, in the form of a reduced dental bill that was unexpected, of a free dinner courtesy of a friend, our friends who were sick have recovered from their illnesses, and we know there is more, much more to come.

I know some of you are asking “What has John been smoking?” but the answer is just the usual, menthol light Marlboros…so no, I am not whacked out on anything except for this new found method of making our lives better in every aspect possible.

Whenever something negative occurs or you find the negative thoughts and attitudes creeping back in make every effort to remove them asap and replace with positive thoughts and affirmations. Look for positivity in the people around you, look at the people you meet at the bank or store and see if your positivity isn’t reflected back to you. People pick up on it and I firmly believe if they are positively motivated people they will respond to you in a positive manner. These are people with the same outlook, one full of possibilities, all in the positive forward aspects we all are striving for.

In another week or two we will let you know how our positivity is progressing as well as our prosperarity and we hope you will also. Maybe some of you are already using this to better your lives. It comes under many theologies, many practices, many religions, old and new, many philosophers and such have been promoting this for years.

It is one thing to ask your God for this or that but it is quite another to believe with every fiber of your being that God, the Universe, the Higher Power will actually grant you your request. You have to have positive faith that it will occur, and it will.

Peace, blessings and joy

John and Keepers