Originally Posted By: avermont
OK--I am a strong, independent woman. I can't be any other way. I can work on projecting being happier and more positive--as taking a neg view of things is my normal mindset. I can actively work on my neg thoughts (have been working on that!) and putting out there a more positive Avermont. I don't want to be a fake Pollyanna--everyone knows Avermont as having a sharp and acerbic sense of humor--so I don't want to be fakey happy happy. But work on"if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything" I have been doing more of that lately.
I think I have similar tendencies wink. But I'm realizing that I want to be more positive...for me. One cool way of working on that is the Complaint Free Challenge. I sucked at it and my bracelet actually broke before I completed the challenge blush. But I learned a lot while I was doing it and I would like to try it again. A lot of being positive or negative is just habit.


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