Positivity: Blank Canvas
I am a blank canvas.
Often this is where I can develop some of my best creativity. I have nothing in particular in mind, and before I know it I have something I didn’t have before.
Today, though, my blank canvas is remaining blank. Nothing has been coming to mind.
I am feeling positive overall.
That’s great, I am happy that for the most part I am feeling well, but I have had no idea what I should write about to focus on my positivity today. I am not drawing from my blank canvas anything creative.
This is not a negative, however. I could probably view it as such, but it could just as readily be a positive.
Why? Because I have a blank canvas before me. This might not be anything at the moment, but it could be something amazing. It could be an astounding work just waiting to be revealed to the world at large.
I have infinite possibility to work with. I have a ton of options, I can do anything I set my mind to doing. My blank canvas may feel less like possibility and more like a blockage, but I can choose to make of it what I will.
Sometimes it is easy to let that tired feeling dominate your actions. Sometimes that blank canvas feels far more like potential failure and inaction than success and possibility.
Once again, it’s all a matter of perspective. Do I see my blank canvas as open premise and vast possibility, or as inactivity and a lack of creativity? It’s entirely up to me to choose what it will be.
It has taken me far longer than normal to do anything with the blank canvas before me. But that’s ok. I know that it can be nothing but positive, if I choose to treat it as such. This blank canvas is not an ending, it is any beginning I might choose for it to be.
How do I perceive this moment?
Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that I can take this blank canvas and make whatever I can imagine out of it, I have nothing but a ton of choices before me. When we take the blank canvas and do not let it thwart our creativity, but instead use it to create something fresh and different and new, we empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.
This is the one hundred twenty first entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.
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