My eight year old daughter just said this to me during our usual father-daughter conversation the other day. She had never said this before and I was pleasantly surprised by her usage of the phrase. It was a gentle reminder for me to focus on positive and be positive. Since then, everytime I sit down to teach her or have a conversation with her about good habits, I am reminded to not only start on a brighter note, but I am also reminded to stay positive for the rest of that day - it is a good thing that I always start the date with an interaction with my wonderful daughter. Lesson learned... it would be helpful for us to pick some visible clue in our house, on our drive to work, at work, or elsewhere preferably earlier in the date, to show positive and negative characteristics. Understand and appreciate the positive characteristic that makes the object what it is and/or what it could be. This could be things like:
- a two year old who is just terrible to manage - without that child your life will be meaningless, that child's energy is a source for you to emulate, it is a trigger to your creative brain to come up with creative solutions to handle that
- a flashy combination of paint colors on a building - look at the creativity of the person who did that, their courage to be different, their solution to grab your attention every day
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