Don't Let Negativity Become Your Identity

Ever meet someone who seems to be perpetually negative, grouchy or just plain unhappy? Have you ever been that person? All of us have moments of disenchantment with life, but allowing those moments to drag on into a life long pattern is a choice. Ask any child if they want to grow up to be a negative grouch and they will tell you NO! And yet some of us at some point in our life choose that role as our identity.

Perpetual unhappiness is not a personality type. It is something we do have control of. Sometimes when I tell my clients this, they complain that I just don't understand what they have been through. Truth is, I do know how life can seem to continually deal you a bad hand. But that doesn't mean that you have to allow those bad hands to forever cloud your ability to enjoy life.

Every day when you get out of bed you have a choice; you can put on a smile and attack the day head on, determined to do what you can to make it great, or you can let the darkness control your destiny. The solution is simple, however, implementing that solution takes a determined spirit. I never say it will be easy, but I promise you that if you do your best every day to smile, and do all that you can do to keep the negative attitudes away, you will begin to enjoy your life.

So I'm asking you, Do you want to grow up to be negative and unhappy? Or would you rather reach out and grab for all the happiness you desire? Determine today to make that answer a reality! You can do it.