How to Positively Shape Your World

The world is a beautiful and complex place. If you pay attention and examine the world, you will find many incredible experiences, encounters, and opportunities. Or, you may find problems, people or nations fighting, and tragedy.

The world can also be a painful place. This seems especially relevant today; there is war, major natural disaster, and a lot of polarization and division amongst people.

Whether you see beauty or tragedy is up to you, you have all the power.

How you choose to view your life and our environment determines your level of happiness. If you look for negativity and disaster, you will find an endless supply of it. Conversely, if you choose to focus on things of beauty and joy in the world, of noticing acts of kindness between people, you will also find an endless supply of positivity.

By choosing to look at the world through the lens of positivity and optimism, you are likely to find beauty and joy in every corner. This allows you to appreciate the small moments, as well as the many grand acts of courage you witness throughout your life. Taking this view will allow you to have greater faith in the promise of a better tomorrow. You recognize difficulties are just temporary, setbacks to be overcome with creativity and determination. You’ll be more likely to persevere, knowing that substantial rewards often come from significant challenges.

However, if you choose to view the world through the lens of negativity and pessimism, your focus will be on obstacles and failures instead. You will always be able to find a reason that something won’t work, why you can’t contribute to making things better.

Change will feel impossible.

Instead of feeling appreciation and gratitude for what is in your life, you will only notice what is missing. You will be much more likely to give up in the face of adversity, rather than push through it and learn from the experience.

This means that you have an incredible amount of power to shape your world — and a lot of responsibility for how you perceive your life.

You can choose light and joy, but that requires that you put your attention on the positive things in your world, paying less attention to the negative aspects.

You get more of what you focus on.

Choose wisely my friends!

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