I Refuse to Be a Negative Person

I spent the week with my mother-in -law down in Florida. Now before you start thinking " I know where this is going" I do love her...most of the time.

God bless her she is almost 89 but you know she is one of the most negative persons I have ever met in my life. After day twoI dreaded coming out of my room in the morning. It took a few minutes of meditating and shoring myself up to enter the kitchen with a big smile on my face.

Have you ever been around people like that...people who after sometime spent with them one of two things has happened? You either feel as though the energy has been sucked out of you or you have jumped right in there with them and everything coming out of your mouth is negative as well.

It is easy to do...the jumping in thing and one of the best ways to avoid it is to begin t minimize your exposure to people who want to see the negative in all things. Unless that is who you want to be.

Sure sometimes we can't avoid it. You can't choose your family for one, but you do have the power of choice over many other people you spend your time with.
I haven't always made the wisest choice but I am discovering that when I surround myself with the glass half full kind of people.....I like it and I have more fun.