Why Is It Usually Easier Said than Done?
I’m striving to live one day at a time as best I can.
I’ve been writing about positivity every Monday for more than 10 years. I’m frequently exploring new paths to positivity, new ways to view it, different perspectives on what it is and isn’t, and more.
There are three reasons why I share these ideas.
- To inject positivity into a world dominated by a fear-based society. Especially on a Monday morning after the weekend.
- In the interest of clarifying genuine, usable positivity over toxic positivity.
- To remind myself to seek the positive.
The third is often the most challenging. In the face of being only human and reacting to matters that come up personally and impersonally, it’s easy to lose sight of positivity.
Recently, a situation has presented itself that’s been majorly plaguing my ability to feel positive. It’s been causing me a great deal of distress, anger, and self-doubt. While I can keep a handle on it most of the time, certain things make it flair up and make me feel negative.
Don’t get me started on the upcoming election in the US. How people can blindly follow a convicted felon who doesn’t even deliver clear speeches is beyond me. Not to mention the BS happening overseas with Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, and more. Seeing the good and positivity in a world going increasingly mad feels impossible sometimes.
That, however, is part of why I share positivity every Monday. Both to remind myself and you that the good and positive of the world is more abundant than the negative.
So why is it usually easier said than done?
Your psyche can only take so much abuse
There is a mental health crisis in the world today. Many don’t see it, but it’s very much messing with you, me, and virtually everyone.
The tools created to connect us all are actually causing far more disconnect than connection. Social media, texting, and the internet overall have created a space of anonymity where accountability is close to nil. On top of that, new technology like AI is being used to disrupt in nearly as many good ways as bad ways. Those elected to make laws are too concerned about petty things and matters that line their pockets – and those of their backers – to do the good they should be.
All these things and more begin a swirling, spiraling cacophony of input that’s as jumbled as it is overwhelming. Nearly all of it is far outside of anything you or I can control. That makes it worse because nobody teaches you how to look within and get to know yourself.
Hence, your psyche can only take so much abuse. In time, you start to feel disillusioned, lost, distressed, uncertain, confused, and unsettled. Is it any wonder that the idea of “woke”, something everyone should aspire to experience, is being weaponized? It keeps you off balance.
Still, in the face of this ongoing insanity. I’m striving to share and spread positivity with the world. Every Monday I continue exploring various aspects of it. Even when I don’t feel it myself, in part to help find it I keep sharing it.
You can counter the abuse to your psyche with positivity. That, however, requires time and effort to one degree or another.
Easier said than done doesn’t mean not giving it ongoing effort
Because of all the reasons mentioned before, this is frequently easier said than done. Many weeks have found me scrambling to come up with a topic worth exploring related to positivity.
This is where toxic positivity gets it wrong, FYI. Toxic positivity is all about ignoring, negating, and avoiding negativity. But you can’t. It is always present and, frankly, necessary.
The yin and yang of life is unmistakable. You cannot have good without bad, up without down, happy without sad, or positivity without negativity. The opposites need one another. What’s more, they’re the extreme ends of any given spectrum. It’s between them, to one end or the other, that you and I exist.
Seeking out, finding, and/or creating positivity in this fear-based society is essential to your mental health, wellness, and wellbeing. Negativity is a huge element of this fear-based society. It ranges from the innocuous, like most advertising and notions like FOMO; to the downright obscene like notions that transgendered people will turn kids gay or immigrants are taking your jobs and freedoms away.
Positivity is necessary to counter this. Not toxic positivity and its disregard of the negative. Genuine positivity is the opposite of negativity that needs that opposite to stand on its own.
Because of how important this is, and because I deeply desire to make the world a better place in whatever ways that I can – even when it’s easier said than done – I share these ideas weekly. Moreover, because I know that positivity can and does benefit you as much as it does me, it’s much more worthwhile.
So why is it usually easier said than done? Because overcoming this fear-based society is so challenging.
For me as much as for you
Life is going to always be challenging. That’s because there are always things you and I can’t control that are going to come up and complicate things.
Everyone has bad days. Everyone. That’s part of life. You get to choose, every day, how you move through it. It might be easier said than done to seek, find, and/or create positivity sometimes. Yet it’s always worth it because positivity is there to counter the lack, scarcity, insufficiency, and negativity of this fear-based society.
Everything I can do to change the narrative is as good for me as it is for you. Hence, I continue sharing weekly positivity ideas with you. Together, we can shift fear to reason, and genuine positivity can play a major role in that. Thanks for doing your part, too.
Seeing that easier said than done doesn’t mean not doing it isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that this fear-based society needs you and me to change for it to change, you and I can choose – even when it’s easier said than done – to seek, find, and/or create more positivity. Knowing that positivity is the yin to negativity’s yang – and that it’s a choice that can counter the fear that so dominates the world – you can choose your approach to things to feel better and take control over how you think, feel, intend, and act.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens more dialogue. With a broader dialogue, you can explore and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself in the now, the more you can do to choose and decide how your life experiences will be. When that empowers you, it can spread to those around you to their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred and thirty-ninth (539) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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