#PositiveVibes - Rah, Rah, Rah

By John R. Nocero

The VIBE: Positive attitudes are contagious.

I had a chance to spend some time in one of our center’s last night. I got there around 830 and had a chance to talk to one of the technicians. After a couple minutes of small talk, she asks me “Are you a head coach or a motivational speaker?” I said, no, I am a quality and compliance administrator, but I believe in positivity. Life is hard enough without you tearing yourself up about it. We talk for a bit more and she says to me, “John, I am so re-energized by talking to you. I can feel your positive energy. Rah rah rah.”

That was the second time someone said it to me today, that they can feel my energy. I take it as an extreme compliment. I think this is coming from the fact that I am doing what I want, and much less of the stuff that I hate to do. In the quartet of being and having, now and in the future, we focus on the wrong ends: our now of being and our future of having. Flip that to what you have now and who you could be, and you’ll eliminate not just a lot of disappointment, and impatience, but the desire for many goals altogether. You are just present and happy with what you are doing, living on your own terms. And since the only thing you can control is you, you should do more of that work on you. Sometimes you will change your attitude, actions, perceptions, or peer group. If the outside world won’t comply, update your operational system.

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