I CAN VS I CAN'T

here's a first: 2 blog postings in 1 day!

after posting my blog on the power of positive thinking, I put in a movie - I felt like some fun before I started work for the day.

"Enchanted."

 

out of all the things I got out of this movie (besides the Happily Ever After feelings - ahhhhh - sigh) was my admiration of Pip.

Pip was the little chipmonk that kept running around thru the whole movie, trying to save Giselle.

At one point Nathaniel (the wicked queen's henchman) hung Pip up in a closet by his arms - he was clipped to a hanger like a rat in a trap. He could have given up and said "What can I do? I'm trapped in a closet 5 ft off the ground hanging by my thumbs!"

He never said I "can't". He just did what he could. He swung the hanger around until it flipped off the rod. Once on the ground (still attached to the hanger with his arms above his head) he escaped by climbing out the window and using his torture device as a get- away tool, slid down a wire to the ground. On the way the hanger flipped off him, and he was free.

All because he said "I can." And he did.

 

How many of us are still in the closet hanging by whatever is holding us back, saying "What can I do?  I'm stuck like a rat in a trap!"

 

What does this have to do with emergency preparedness?

You know.

 



The Power of I can!

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING!

Positive thinking has positive power. 

 

The opposite is also true; negative thinking has negative power.

Positive thinkers attract other positive people. No one likes to be around a negative person.

 

Positive thinkers are happier (duh!)

 

 

Positive thinkers have the power to handle difficult situations, to solve problems, and to work thru things without giving up.

Those are all traits we need to have if the DHTF*.

*dirt hits the fan

 

The time to be a positive thinker is before the DHTF.

If it is normal and natural to think positive when life is good, it will be easier to think positive when life gets not so good.

 

I used to be a negative thinker. Then I got smart and changed my negative ways. It wasn't easy - especially when I thought my life was crud. It took lots of mental hard work on my part ,but my life is so much happier now. (and nothing changed in my life but me)

 

Every morning before I get out of bed I set the tone for the day. "LG. Life is good." is my motto. And I give thanks for as many things as I can think of. Just to be alive is a blessing!

 

 

I do wonder how I would do if the DHTF. I get cranky if I am tired or hungry.

 

I am hoping by giving myself positive thoughts every day and being that positive person, that when times get hard (and they will get hard) my positiveness will get me thru anything.