Category: Positive Thinking

How do you feel about your trash when you remove it from your house? Would you say you discard it, or reject it? Clearly you discard it. Rejecting your trash sounds a little too emphatic! What about beliefs/values/attitudes/sensibilities/mindsets? For the ones that don’t line up with your values, do you discard them? Or reject them?

Take ‘your thoughts create your reality’ for example. For the Absolutist in me, one counterexample will nullify that claim. It’s easy, we’ve all got plenty of examples in our lives. This morning I was certain there’d be no clean plastic cups… lo and behold, there were. And how come Mick Jagger didn’t die before he… Continue reading Absolutes vs. Tendencies

I’ll cop to the link-bait headline, but it is not without merit. The simplicity of the term positive thinking belies the depth and complexity of the topic. It causes misunderstandings from people on both sides of the matter, and the misunderstanding can be summed up as: don’t be negative. I suspect this misunderstanding is at least… Continue reading Negative Thinkers Have It Right

“Calm seas don’t make good sailors.” —Anonymous “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” —John F. Kennedy What a frail species we are. Without others,… Continue reading Strong or Frail, Which Would You Rather Be?

It’s fall, and I’m doing one final rake to get the straggler leaves off of my lawn. I noticed a tendency of leaves to settle in gaps where there is no grass. Leaves on lawns make a less favorable situation for the growth of grass, and leaves gravitate to where there is already no grass…… Continue reading How Leaves on Your Lawn Predict Your Future