You’re going to attract more people with positive messaging, stories and ideas than you will with negative ones.
Ya, I know. Facebook would argue that point, given the number of comments that negative-oriented posts get. I still think cute Facebook vids of dogs and cats and men dancing in their underwear still get more comments, more shares and more likes.
Some people know the quote by Bucky Fuller. It goes something like: “Don’t fight the system, make something better than it.” I’ve quoted it before. I’m just being lazy.
So why is it so many people focus on the negative? I’m not going to answer that question although I know. Instead let’s look at this one: What are the benefits of being positive?
For one, there are enough people in the world focusing on the negative things. You stand out like a beacon when you are positive. Second, while people will ignore you at first, focusing as they tend to on negative things, eventually they come around. Third, you’ll feel more positive about not only the world, but your self. Lastly, you’ll have access to solutions.
Those last two are so crucial. Particularly when taking on a Big Hairy Ass Goal (BHAG). Here’s how things work. When you’re positive and excited by the positive aspects of things, when you’re enthusiastic and eager about what you’re doing (or planning to do), confident about it, you are open. What are you open to? You’re open to possibility, you are able to see things in a way people who are consistently negative can not. The world becomes full of opportunities. It also becomes fun. Keep this up and seemingly miraculously, you will find yourself producing results that are, well, miraculous. Those results are hard to ignore, even by the pessimist/realist.
When you are open, you encounter “happy accidents” some people call luck. It’s not luck but who cares what it’s called? These events allow you to move beyond problems in ways you can’t when you’re being negative. Negativity causes you to only see more negative. Including the impossibility of “problems,” the sheer enormity of them, and the sheer number of them. You can’t see problems as opportunities (which is what they are) when you’re seeing them as problems. Problems are opportunities to alter and deepen your ability to bring forth miracles.
I know some people in TZM reading this disagree. You may not believe what you just read, or believe that I believe it. That’s ok, you can’t dispute the results we’ve produced in Copiosis. And we’re just beginning here!
Here’s the critical thing about being negative: It’s very hard to turn that train around. If you’ve been negative or “realistic” most of your life, it takes a lot of work to ease through all that negative shit you’ve pushed out into the world, shit that is coming back your way to land on you. My Bujinkan instructor used to call that negative shit we send out “sending out bombers, which return still loaded, ready to unleash their payload on you.” You’ve put a lot of momentum out there. That thought train isn’t going to stop on a dime. But it will eventually if put some effort into it.
Everyone can become a positive person. It’s worth it. If you’re planning to make the RBE, or any idealistic future our collective reality, being positive is critical. Otherwise your negative focus is counteracting all your positive acts. And while you may get somewhere, you won’t get as far, and it won’t be as fun as doing with positivity.