the salty dog

I do NOT function well when surrounded by negative energy. That's not some deep spiritual chakhra thing, it's just, you know, people's vibes. John Maxwell said that a positive attitude is the difference between success and failure when the talent is there.He also said that the power of negativity to spread like a cancer is much more than that of positivity. Please refer to ciloquialism: "one bad apple spoiling the whole damn bunch." I do all that I can do to keep negative people out of my life. I don't like being friends with negative people, I don't like sitting near negative people and I don't like carrying on conversations with strangers who start talking to you by saying things like "man, this weather sucks."
Life sucks! OK! We all get that! Why must you make it suck any more by telling me all the ways in which it sucks?! I can see how someone with a constantly salty outlook might get pissed when in the presence of people who have the gift of seeing what is going well. I too experience bad days on which happy people piss me off. But feeling bad and tense and angry is a BAD feeling, therefore, When in a funk, I do whatever I can to get out of it. If I have two salty days in a row, I seriously consider counseling.
Life is too short, and filled with too much potential to be pissed, aggrevated and angry EVERYday.
I've heard it said that success is really just stacking several successful days on top of each other. If that's really the case, then what would you have should you stack several negative days on top of each other? My answer? A long, sad, empty, lonely life.

So again tomorrow, like I've done many times before, I'll pull out my iPod and listen to the great John Maxwell talk to me about the power of a positive attitude. I will allow him to drown out the perpetual stream of negativity that surrounds me, and choose to overlook the external influences attempting to set boundries around my ability to choose to be happy and accepting of life's MANY smaller victories.

ya got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative...you know the rest.

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