Instead of honing-in on the negatives, we should choose to look for and highlight the positives, instead of honing-in on the negatives – look at what the negatives are trying to tell us – on what we're being shown.
Drawing Positives from our Lessons
We should choose to draw on the positives from our lessons, make those more prominent and noticeable so that we continue to look for the positives. The more we hone-in on negativity, the less positive we or our lives will be.
Learning to Adapt
It is important to adapt to situations. Using the Coronavirus as an example, it would be easy to spiral into negativity, to think why us. If you believe things happen for a reason, we should look for the reason and highlight the positives. The Coronavirus is giving us reasons to learn our lessons – not for us to pick holes and complain about the inconvenience – to think about what we’ve done to the natural world, to see where we can change and turn things around.
Negative people
Negative people don't look for or see the positives, therefore will never see their experiences positively, but that isn’t to say they can’t. It is important to look at things positively. Life works out better when we do. Experiences may not always be positive, but we can take positive things from each experience and choose to highlight those. It's how we choose to look at things.
Although a very grim lesson, some scientist have said the virus could offer tough lessons for how to prepare and ideally avoid, the most destructive impacts of climate change.
The key question governments should be asking as they consider restarting their economies, is whether it is acceptable to go back to the status quo with its inherent impact on our health and on the planet.
We must tackle these environmental impacts and restructure our economies and reduce emissions and pollution. It's a no-brainier but unfortunately the main protagonists have no brains.
Thank you. Yes, where you say the main protagonists have no brains, you're either dealing with ego or narcissism.
There can be no place in government for either. When governments begin to make the issues we face about them, you know you're on to a loser.
I do have concerns how politics is going right now and will always try to highlight the positives even in politics, although it's getting harder to do that.
I will always choose to look forward, it's the better option I feel given the circumstances and the state of where we are in the world.