{"id":9,"date":"2002-08-15T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:07:04","slug":"thinking-positively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2002\/08\/thinking-positively\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Positively"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are a lot of negative (and many even frightening) things going on in the world and society right now…. I myself know that I let lots of things “get” to me a lot of the time – from traffic to annoying or rude people, sitting around and criticizing this and that etc.<\/p>\n

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\nEven though I admittedly do this a lot (and am sure to continue to, ha ha), I started wondering if thinking more positively about things – consciously trying to find something “good”, even in the “bad” – could help my mood sometimes.<\/p>\n

\nFor instance, the traffic or the way people drive might drive me crazy at times – but at least I’m lucky enough to have a car (that runs) (barely). Hmm, or maybe someone’s being rude out in public or something – but the good thing is, hey, I don’t HAVE to respond to their rudeness.<\/p>\n

\nThere’s also the more “permanent” or important things that can be good in your life…. Like, I’m blessed to have a good job, doing something that I love to do (especially in this economy!). I’m also blessed with a loving family.<\/p>\n

\nI’m just saying – perhaps sometime when you’re feeling especially annoyed \/ upset \/ depressed or negatively about something – maybe take a moment to force yourself to think “well it’s bad – but at least ….” [something good and positive]!<\/p>\n

\nCheesy, I know, but maybe it’ll work sometimes ;-)<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of negative (and many even frightening) things going on in the world and society right now…. I myself know that I let lots of things “get” to me a lot of the time – from traffic to annoying or rude people, sitting around and criticizing this and that etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-positive-thought","8":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}