How Do You Stay Positive?

I just wrote an article for Open Forum called Staying Positive in an Economic Depression.  The news is so negative: each day you hear of someone close loosing their job or companies closing or employees being asked to take time off without pay each month so the company can stay financially afloat. 

With all that negative – how do you stay positive?

Or do you?

In the article I talk about:

• Finding a new approach to your sales process – selling smaller and more frequently rather than putting all your eggs in the basket of a large proposal
• Using this time to learn something new -with social media being front and center in the news – are you using your down time to learn what it is and how it can help you connect with customers/employers?
• Surround yourself with positive people.  Every situation has a positive spin – do you hang with those that focus on the negative or those that look for the silver lining – the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
• Back to basics – one person who commented on the article said that she views this as an opportunity to have quality family time – board games, rented videos, home cooked meals, tossing the ball in the back yard – planting a garden that will help feed you this summer (I added that little ditty)

I went to a Weight Watchers meeting today becuase I’ve been faithfully watching my weight…grow. Part of the Weight Watcher process is writing down, or tracking what you eat.  The lesson today was the importance of tracking your food intake. When you write what you bite you’ll find more success at the scale. 

The leader talked through all of the EXCUSES we have for not doing what we know we need to do:  writing what we eat.  So she passed out pens and paper and had us each write one thing that helps us be successful at writing down our food intake.  She collected our answers and as we left the meeting we took one idea out of the basket.  A positive tip to help us be successful.

Sharing positive ideas is a great way to spread the positive feeling.  So how do you stay positive? Share you tips here so we can all benefit.