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Hello Positive People!
Well, I've been working like a crazy woman updating my website, ignoring family, hygiene, and sleep. (I've been blaming the odor on the couch which now has a very prominent imprint of my rear.) Anyway, I'm done with the website...for the night...except for this blog entry.
While researching positive thinking the past week, I've discovered many new ideas. And, some concepts are more clear in my head...which is a scarier than usual place to be right now! I have so many passwords and numbers in my head, I can barely remember my own birth date, let alone what time I am supposed pick up my son from lacrosse. Oops. I'll be right back. Just kidding.
I have also discovered that my task of passing along info about positive thinking for TEENS is a much larger challenge than I originally anticipated. I have been informed by my own teenagers that they are totally not interested in positive thinking or anything that has to do with thinking, for that matter, unless it involves their ipod, computer or cell phone.
So, it would seem that the age group of my 5 kids, approximately 11-18, is apparently lost...doomed to live in negativity, if that is their current state (uh-huh), until they become adults and realize how miserable they've become, and then it will be all my fault, of course. Could this possibly be true??? Have I destined them all to years of psychotherapy... and second jobs so they can afford to pay for it?
I refuse to believe it!!! There has to be something I can do to reach this age group to show them that positive thinking is a MUST. I guess it is too late to put love notes in their lunch boxes. Do kids even CARRY lunch boxes anymore? Let's see......mass hypnosis? Subliminal messages in their alphabet soup? Oh wait. They don't eat soup anymore. Hmmmm....I could put an ad on television. They'd be sure to see THAT! What else....???
(Picture me tapping my foot...twirling my hair...looking up to the right with an empty idea box above my head. Yes, that's it.)
A-n-n-d, I'm stumped. I did get my 2 boys to agree to gather some friends for a focus group. Perhaps actually talking to some hormone-driven, neurotic teenagers will help me figure out how to teach them that controlling their impulses will make their lives a little less crazy. Hey! You can stop laughing at me now. I must be nuts to think I can help change the world one kid at a time!!! Right? Donations for MY psychotherapy bills are greatly appreciated.
All joking aside, I KNOW that I'll come up with the solution. It is RIGHT there! See it? I can...it is just a little out of focus yet.
And, FOCUS is the name of the game, people. We need to FOCUS our attention on the POSITIVE thoughts...the BLESSINGS in our lives...our DREAMS...our GOALS. SUSTAINED FOCUS ON ANY TASK OR THOUGHT OR GOAL IS UNSTOPPABLE! So, make sure YOU are focusing on the POSITIVE.
Remember, we are what we think about!
Chanin
P.S.
Here is a pretty picture for you...this was in Yellowstone last year.
Well, I've been working like a crazy woman updating my website, ignoring family, hygiene, and sleep. (I've been blaming the odor on the couch which now has a very prominent imprint of my rear.) Anyway, I'm done with the website...for the night...except for this blog entry.
While researching positive thinking the past week, I've discovered many new ideas. And, some concepts are more clear in my head...which is a scarier than usual place to be right now! I have so many passwords and numbers in my head, I can barely remember my own birth date, let alone what time I am supposed pick up my son from lacrosse. Oops. I'll be right back. Just kidding.
I have also discovered that my task of passing along info about positive thinking for TEENS is a much larger challenge than I originally anticipated. I have been informed by my own teenagers that they are totally not interested in positive thinking or anything that has to do with thinking, for that matter, unless it involves their ipod, computer or cell phone.
So, it would seem that the age group of my 5 kids, approximately 11-18, is apparently lost...doomed to live in negativity, if that is their current state (uh-huh), until they become adults and realize how miserable they've become, and then it will be all my fault, of course. Could this possibly be true??? Have I destined them all to years of psychotherapy... and second jobs so they can afford to pay for it?
I refuse to believe it!!! There has to be something I can do to reach this age group to show them that positive thinking is a MUST. I guess it is too late to put love notes in their lunch boxes. Do kids even CARRY lunch boxes anymore? Let's see......mass hypnosis? Subliminal messages in their alphabet soup? Oh wait. They don't eat soup anymore. Hmmmm....I could put an ad on television. They'd be sure to see THAT! What else....???
(Picture me tapping my foot...twirling my hair...looking up to the right with an empty idea box above my head. Yes, that's it.)
A-n-n-d, I'm stumped. I did get my 2 boys to agree to gather some friends for a focus group. Perhaps actually talking to some hormone-driven, neurotic teenagers will help me figure out how to teach them that controlling their impulses will make their lives a little less crazy. Hey! You can stop laughing at me now. I must be nuts to think I can help change the world one kid at a time!!! Right? Donations for MY psychotherapy bills are greatly appreciated.
All joking aside, I KNOW that I'll come up with the solution. It is RIGHT there! See it? I can...it is just a little out of focus yet.
And, FOCUS is the name of the game, people. We need to FOCUS our attention on the POSITIVE thoughts...the BLESSINGS in our lives...our DREAMS...our GOALS. SUSTAINED FOCUS ON ANY TASK OR THOUGHT OR GOAL IS UNSTOPPABLE! So, make sure YOU are focusing on the POSITIVE.
Remember, we are what we think about!
Chanin
P.S.
Here is a pretty picture for you...this was in Yellowstone last year.
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