A new year always means the opportunity to reflect on our past and plan our future. Here at Real Positive Vibes, we hope to continue bringing a little light into your inbox and helping find and cherish those bright spots in the world and your own life.
To that end, in addition to our regular newsletters, we invite you to join our free online community, where you can meet and engage in fulfilling conversations and interactions without the distractions of ads or politics.
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Celebrating Small Wins
All day, every day you are getting things down and achieving goals but how often do you celebrate or reward yourself for your victories? If you are like most people, not often or you wait until it feels big enough to celebrate.
Contrary to that common practice, celebrating the little victories along the way is crucial to meeting your goals and will make you feel better and be more productive and help you power through to the finish on the bigger goals.
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Over the past couple of years, we’ve all learned that true heroism is just stepping up at the right time. That’s what one Colorado woman did when she noticed that some children had fallen into a frozen pond just outside her window.
She immediately rushed to their aid and was able, with the help of a teenager get all of the children out of the water and to safety. Her courage and quick action saved those children’s lives and to them, she is a hero.
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There Can Only Be One: Josh
We’ve been there, joining a new website lo and behold someone else is already using your preferred name or user name. For Josh Swain of Arizona, enough was enough, so invite all the other Josh Swains to a battle royale, the victor could keep the name the rest would have to rebrand themselves.
Naturally, it was all in good fun and initially, it was just a joke. But after word got out, the Battle of the Joshes was on, and dozens of Joshes showed up in Lincoln, Nebraska to have fun and determine which Josh would rule them all.
Josh Swain turned a minor nuisance into an opportunity to reach out to people with positivity, have fun and raise a little money for charity. In the end, adding a few numbers, symbols or underscores to your username might be worth it after all.
So much personal happiness and satisfaction comes from finding and maintaining contentment. But then what is contentment? Does it mean not striving for more, keeping the status quo?
No, of course not. Contentment is about loving and celebrating each step on your journey. One of our very first positivity exercises was about being thankful. Now we’re going to take it a step further, more than being thankful for what you have, let’s start wanting what you have. It can be anything, finding new joy in an old book or hobby that you haven’t enjoyed in a while.
Think about how happy you are when you get something you’ve been longing for and how quickly the feeling fades. Wanting what you have is more than a simple act of gratitude for necessities or basics. It’s about reinvigorating your desire and attention to the blessings and joys that are already yours. If you woke up every day looking forward to what you had already accomplished, what you already had, reaching for the next challenge would be fulfilling not tiring.
Give it a try and see how you feel.
Thanks for reading and spending these few precious and positive moments with us. Remember that a small act of kindness could radically change you or someone else’s life.
Have a wonderful day,
Asja
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