Positivity

There is nothing productive about being negative.

Multiple people have given me the compliment that I am a positive person.? If I did not hear it as often as I have, I would still be taken aback by it.? Admittedly, I am not an energy guy or hype-guy or even that upbeat at all.? I am probably more characterized as being rational, efficient, and calculated.? I have learned to acknowledge that I don’t believe there is any benefit to feeling sorry for myself or focusing on the negative.? By default, that has apparently made me a positive person.

There is no benefit to negative thought.? The only outcome of negative thought is eventually giving up, and there is zero benefit to focusing on the negative.? When there is adversity, rather than focusing on the potential or likely bad outcome, I focus on what I can control, what I can do, to improve the situation, even if it is just marginal improvements.? It is efficient, it is not positivity in the peppy sense, but it is productive.

Even in my darkest low recently as I contended with my sister’s illness, I found myself trying to live out this concept.? There was no positive and nothing that I could do to fix the situation, but I felt the need to be productive in any way that I could find.? Even the details, knowing what status or updated diagnosis was, became unnecessary to me as the outcome was fairly certain and weighed more heavily on me.? My actions did not change with new details because they didn’t change my actions.? I watched my niece which was helpful to my brother-in-law, but I quickly ran out of things that were directly helpful.? So, I transitioned to general productivity and starting painting half of my house (that was unpainted for 10+ years, so it was due anyway).?

I wrote a previous article about how simple and great puzzles are.? Connecting two pieces is a simple win and you get to keep adding those productive steps up.? In my example, there was no winning, but for me to be productive, I needed any small wins I could get as a way to keep momentum moving forward, so I painted like a crazy person.? It was a win that will hopefully carry me to the next opportunity that I can help my sister’s family, when there is that opportunity.? I aspire to be productive, even in situations are really dark, but maybe some people would just call that positivity.

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Jason Hornberger is a 30-something year old commercial lender at Orrstown Bank in Berks County.? He would likely be considered a dinosaur by his Millennial peers, but he tries to regularly put together engaging content to show his brand and thought process.? Social media is an online billboard and his goal is to establish himself as an ethical thought leader and someone that other people want to engage with (hopefully in business and in the community).