A POSITIVE PERSON IN A NEGATIVE WORLD
The biggest challenge you will ever face is living as a positive person in a negative world.
Negativity permeates the twenty-first century. The news media has turned disaster and despair into negative entertainment; they routinely stalk victims of tragedy exploiting their grief to satisfy twisted voyeuristic curiosity. Television is now a dumpster for Hollywood's toxic waste, and if you let their rubbish into your mind, it will eventually make you sick.
Helpless and Hopeless have become our uninvited and unwanted guests. Helpless tells us there's nothing we can do, and Hopeless tells us there's no reason for hope.
While it's true that politicians live above the law and flout the will of the people, and while it's true that drugs and violence are out of control, and while it's true that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, you can still live as a positive person in a negative world. But the only way you can make it happen is to focus on positive things.
A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind.
If you want to be a positive person, you will have to rigorously control what goes into your mind and maintain a relentlessly positive focus.
If you really want to be positive, nobody can stop you.
Excerpt from :
Maximum Strength Positive Thinking : What to Say When You Talk to Your Mind
