Since Kolby was gone early for basketball and not available for questioning, I just proceeded to go get the batteries and install them into the remote.
I inserted the battery and couldn't help but notice the + and the - like I always do. Of course you have to insert the battery with the positive facing a specific way or it wont work. Or do you have to face the negative facing a certain way for it to work. How do each of us see this? Of course for me that led to what an optimist or a pessimist would think. The truth is that neither is right or wrong!
If you turn the battery with the positive facing the way you believe its supposed to go then you haven't eliminated the negative. All I have done is focus on the positive. In fact, you wouldn't want to eliminate the negative anyway because it is the interaction between the two that create the flow of energy.
We look at batteries all of the time. But this time the "positive" and the "negative" signs on the battery spoke a different message to me.
All of a sudden I started thinking about positive and negative thoughts. I started thinking of the negative thoughts that enter my mind any given day. It took me back to a time in my life that negative thoughts consumed me after some hard trials that I had faced. I remember wondering where they came from and why they were there. How do the negative thoughts just pop up out of nowhere and cause conflict to my day. And I am a pretty positive person but this does not mean that I don't have to fight off negative thoughts.
I remember thinking years ago that I was ready to conquer these negative thoughts once and for all. And I quickly learned that it seemed I was a failure at this attempt. The more I tried to remove the thoughts the more they entered my mind. I quickly learned that what you resist persists.
The more I focused on trying to get rid of negative I realized that I was giving energy to the negative. By giving all my energy to pushing away negative things I was pulling my energy away from the positive that mattered most to me.
This is when I learned how imperative and important mindset was. Really my introduction to learning about optimists, pessimists, and self claimed realists. My husband mingles with all three. I consider myself a natural optimist. Through the years I have learned to appreciate the perspective of all three. They are all better attributes when mixed with components of each other.
I have had many years practicing how this all works and today when thinking of the batteries it came full circle for me.
I started thinking of things that were positive to me that were negative to another... I thought of the recent craziness that came from the movie FROZEN. I thought it was great and picked up some real value form the movie. Then only to find posts about its demise. I ask myself did we watch the same movie? Or how about when you listen to two political opponents...We hear the same message from them both and determine our opinion then plastered everywhere are the arguments against each other.
Everyone gets a different result, WHY??? MINDSET!!! MINDSET!!! MINDSET!!!!So where am I going with all of this? You cant get rid of negative! It's around all day, everyday and it only gets worse everyday!
Everything is like the battery with a positive and a negative end. When the input or situation hits our MINDSET then we immediately determine which end of the battery will get the energy!
So maybe instead of trying to disconnect from the negative you can focus on the positive! We also know that the negative is still there, we just are not going to give it any focus.
We have to live in this world that is combined with negative and positive! We live in a world that has major scary headlines almost daily. It's OK! Just decide which side of the battery you will focus on...The positive or the negative?
Invest your energy in what will further you in your life! Tune your mind into showing you opportunity and passion! As you pursue the best things in your life the negativity will move out of focus and become a blur and the positive will emerge and create a clearer path! I am so thankful for life's little lessons from ordinary things such as a remote control and a battery!
When I looked at the remote I noticed the INPUT button. It reminded me that everyday we have a choice as to what we will fill ourselves with and even the VOLUME and the MUTE button.
Find JOY every day creating your beautiful MINDSET!!!
