Hi Everyone
Happy February. I hope you are having a good start to 2019 and that it's not too cold where you are located (or too hot for some parts of the world)!
I'm doing great. Today is the 4-month anniversary of my brain seizure. I hope I'll get my driver's license back on Monday. I have to do a phone interview with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Gaaa. One step at a time.
I noticed something interesting the past couple of months. Right after I had my surgery, I was still in great shape, so it was pretty easy to write on a weekly basis. But, since I could only do small amounts of exercise for the first 2-3 months after the surgery, I slowly lost some energy from reduced fitness levels and even gained 5-10 pounds. Recently, I was able to start doing my exercise bike again and I can already feel the extra energy from that coming back. This also makes it easier for me to write.
This week, I would like to share a formula to be a positive person. This is a way to be "strategicaly positive" -- this means not just being blindly positive, but figuring out the right way to be positive as you'll see below.
Here are the 5 steps to this formula:
- If there are both negatives and positives in a situation, be positive overall (gratitude). Point 2 shows how this does not mean being blindly positive.
- If something is negative (either as an overall situation or as a sub-point of #1 above), get really good at recognizing what is negative, why its negative, and most importantly equally good at figuring out how to make it positive.
- If something is positive (either as an overall situation or as a sub-point of #1 above), get really good at figuring out how to continue this, capitalize on it as many ways as you can, and build momentum from this.
- Actively practice analyzing situations and repeating this over time in all areas of life. By doing this, you will build pattern recognition, wisdom, and strong strategy expertise a highly valuable skill. Pattern recognition simply means seeing similar things happen in a pattern, which can help you know what is more likely to happen next.
- Life will likely be better!
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Chris "SparkGuy" Downie
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