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<\/a>Go On a Positivity Fest<\/strong> Today, I still use a journal to catalog moments of inspiration and hope. Why? Well I know how tempting it is to indulge in a bad mood. Ever watch the evening news or listen to sad moody music? It\u2019s a quick way to fall into a downward spiral of negativity. A lot of people get addicted to the negative emotions garnered by TV and they grasp onto them filling their pot with more negativity. Instead, I choose uplifting music, videos, positive poems, quotes, and biographies of inspiring people to breed hope. It\u2019s all a part of my tool box.<\/p>\n The thing is we can choose how we want to live our lives. And if consistent negative thoughts can breed sadness and depression, then there is potential for positive thoughts to not just influence our mood, but empower our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been many times in my life when I was surrounded by a multitude of friendships. And equally times when I have felt alone. What I realized is that it\u2019s often not the quantity of friendships you have that support and lift you up. But the quality ones. The people that genuinely care about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,12,10,5,17,14,8,16,18,6,11,7,4,9,19,20,15],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-positivity","tag-addiction","tag-adolescence","tag-depression","tag-emotions","tag-health","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-loneliness","tag-mental-health","tag-mood","tag-negative-emotion","tag-negative-mood","tag-positivity-2","tag-sadness","tag-social-network","tag-social-support","tag-surrounding-yourself-with-positivity"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nOnce I fall into the pit of \u201cwoe is me,\u201d it is very difficult to climb out. Instead I\u2019ve learned ways to keep the good feelings flowing by celebrating with a positivity fest. Since I was a child, I\u2019ve kept a journal. As I got older, I used it to catalog my fears, dislikes and joyful moments and also uplifting quotes of people I admired from things I read or saw on TV. I spent the majority of my adolescence in a library glued to the self-help section. All those quotes were like rays of shine for me during a few of the darkest years of my life. They were my teachers, role models and mentors.\u00a0Dead or alive, whether I’ve met them or not, their words left an imprint on my soul and all went straight into my book.<\/p>\n