TRY A CLICHÉ

Do you ever use clichés? Do you hear them often? No doubt you can answer "Yes" to either question. But have you stopped to consider what they may mean? People say that you should avoid using it, but I think that there can be much truth in it. If you dismiss things immediately if they sound like a cliché, you might be missing some good stuff. Clichés are simply “unoriginal ideas” and that’s fine. Let’s think of these: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away". Many would say this means to them, if you eat well, you will never fall sick! But I thought of this in a different way.

Try this apple.  Write down things you’re glad about every night before you go to sleep for one week, maybe even just one.   

Read all the entry/s each night. See what happens. Sometimes we need reminders to help us reflect on the good in our lives. Yes I know you need more things (money, car, house, etc), but what do you have now. A bed, food to eat, a mind that helps you to think, feet that causes you to walk, etc. Simple things, yet they have such a profound effect on us.   

Consider what you usually think about as you fall asleep? An assortment of worries or concerns slights from difficult co-workers, things you need to remember… negativity and chaos? Now why not try to think differently each night, one thought.  If you purposefully inject the positive into your brain then the negative worries and concerns get bumped out.

The positive isn’t fluff. Its real things in your life that you’re actually grateful for, you just tend not to notice. We tend to have a pretty tight focus on what’s wrong with our lives and ourselves for that matter. With that tight a focus, you’re really missing the big picture. Sometimes our minds need a manual focus adjustment to see the real picture. Try it out and let me know what you notice.

Let’s beat the # smed2010 group with the positive things we are grateful for each night and see the conversations we can start and the attitudes changed. 

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