Honey and vinegar

Chapter 340

It’s so hard to be the person that encourages everyone all the time. It’s far too easy to get bogged down in your own concerns and worries. But people have little desire to be with someone bogged down all the time, instead they want to be with someone who is breathing sunshine, farting love, and overcoming all the challenges of life and are oozing that energy out their pores. I know that is who I want to spend my time with, and I bet you do too. This occurred to me this morning in a powerful way for some reason, when I laughed out loud to something in the audiobook I was listening. I realized then how long it has been since I laughed out loud. People need to hear me laugh. They need to hear you laugh. It will make them believe that they can laugh too.

Obviously this cannot be faked, and so don’t even try. The point here, is to look for, and find the humor in life and situations and put the best possible narrative to life far more quickly than we have been doing for the last 6 decades. It’s time to be a huge ray of bright optimism for the world, especially those in our world closest to us. 

Let me say it a different way - be a joy to be around. Honey attracts far more flies than does vinegar as the saying goes. I for one have developed (or just naturally am) a personality of vinegar. I must take intentional steps to mitigate the sharpness of my vinegary persona and look for more rays of sunshine and blessings to pour out. Or in my case, be forced out.

Think of it as the discipline of spreading power and love.