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Positive and negative have long been used as common modifiers for the word attitude; a “positive” attitude or a “negative” attitude with positive meaning “good” and negative meaning “bad.”
Positive is like in math, symbolized by the “+” sign and meaning add; “to add to.” Negative is symbolized by the “-” sign, meaning subtract, “to take away from.” Think in terms of the positives “adding to the quality of your life” and the negatives as “subtracting from that quality.”
Using this analogy, life is the “sum” of all the positive things you have thought, said, and done and it’s a non-stop, on-going process. The negative things subtract from that sum, leaving the “remainder” which hopefully is still an astronomical number of positives.
Let’s say that each day you start with a clean slate and the math begins with points added for all the positives and points subtracted for all the negatives. An audit of the total would be “eye opening.” Just imagine how many points you could accumulate every time you are considerate, caring, charitable, dependable, encouraging, enthusiastic, fair, faithful, generous, gentle, good, grateful, happy, honest, joyful, kind, loving, nice, optimistic, patient, peaceful, polite, respectful, responsible, trustworthy or unselfish or every time you smile or laugh or hug, not to mention all of the others positive things we could do each day.
Maximize the positives and minimize (and eventually eliminate) the negatives. Make sure the negativity is rare and brief; it doesn’t happen very often and it doesn’t last very long.
And do not reciprocate (DNR) the negativity of others. Make sure the negativity is completely out of your character. Spread joy up to the maximum and bring doom and gloom down to the minimum.
Life should be about adding and multiplying good and not by subtracting and dividing.
The equation for a good life is solved by the enormous number of positive things you think and say and do each and every day, all day long. These good things become the content of your character and are a powerful influence for all those who have the pleasure to be in the realm of your presence.
How many positive points did you accumulate today?
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