So one of the things that I've made a concerted effort to be is more positive. When I was younger, I was told that I had an acerbic wit, which meant I was sharp and hard on everybody around me with sarcasm and cutting comments.
Over the years I've toned that down quite a bit, but it's still there. One of the things that I've been doing lately is something that I feel like God told me to do. Be quiet. And even my wife has noticed that I'm a lot quieter than I used to be.
I still have just as much to say, but it comes out differently now because I'm writing or recording and then editing the transcripts. One of the new things that I've been doing, and I've tried it a couple of times before and it just never stuck, but now I'm really kind of trying is when I make divider lines in my emails or in something that I'm typing, I use pluses instead of dashes.
The dash is the minus sign and I don't want to be negative that way. I know that's silly, but it is an effort that I'm making and it's one of those things that is interesting and when I go to do dashes, I catch myself and then shift and find the plus symbol.
So that's part of my effort. Hopefully you make some effort to be positive too. The world is such an easier place to navigate when people are more positive. Now if I can just work on the drivers around me, that would help too.
Or at least my attitude about them.
