Happiness is keeping positive and not letting the dominoes fall

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world

~ J D Stroube

So my friends, I was having a bad day, I deleted a file folder I couldn’t recover, a really boneheaded move caused by a lack of attention on my part. A good reminder on the importance of the idea of mindfulness that we’ve talked about before at the Ministry of Happiness. For a time today I let that mistake really ruin my day, I got grouchy and that led to me looking negatively at everything I encountered. A sign at the gym that I really should have expected tweaked me off, the music at the gym was too loud the woman next to me on the treadmill had on too much perfume. This all conspired to really bring me down, beating down my mood and making my workout much harder than it should have been.

However, one of the beauties of exercise is that sometimes the physicality of what you are doing can adjust your mental state. In the middle of my workout as my body started to tire, it freed my mind. It hit me that I wasn’t that upset about things at the gym, that I was driving my mood down because I was mad at myself. I needed to get my mind right and as I did I started to relax, my legs didn’t feel as heavy, I started to feel better, my mood increased.

You see friends, negative things happen in every day but it’s up to us to put them in their proper place. We must accept them, deal with them as we can and then move on. What we can’t do, is let the bad things be the first domino that leads to another and another. If we do, we create a self-fulfilling prophecy of negativity that will ruin our day and destroy our happiness. We have to emphasize positivity, even if it is nothing more than smiling and looking on the bright side of things. So put a smile on your face and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane