Bringing Positivity To A Downed Environment

In every environment you walk into, there is a possibility of having negativity filled in that environment. There is many ways you can react, or rather we can react. As humans we have a natural tendency to follow suit of what is happening. If you were to try to do anything else except join in the negativity you can be met with opposition.

When you get hit with that opposition you once again have choices. You trudge through, dragging in your non-negative attitude, lets say its being positive. If you were being positive it could be akin to dragging a boulder up the hill. At any point your boulder can start its journey back down.

If you can over come this opposition, these feelings of joy and upbeat that you bring will invade the environment. It will spread like a virus both fast and heavy. You cannot stop it once it gets going.

Although we as humans find the path of less resistant to follow suit of the norm, in this case the negativity, deep down everyone wants to be happy. If you are strong enough, and push hard you can change the entire environment. One person can give this domino effect and change everything.

Breeding happiness inside your environment will increase everything from productivity to morale. Recently I came into an environment that felt down on its luck. The location in question was behind on virtually everything. The excuses flooded in as to why. Rather than focusing on what they could tackle and improve, it was almost as if they gave up. The flood has come, rather than swimming they would just drown.

I would rather walk in and inspire happiness and joy, rather than attempting to bring it in myself. Therefore, what they had given up on, I came in and accomplished. The projects they were behind, and had set aside as never going to be finished I took on first. If you tackle the worst of the worst, the ones that they have fully given up on.

When they began to see the projects, the dead ones, getting accomplished in the face of all of the excuses they had made, they gained hope. One by one I was approached, and asked how they could help, as they wanted the projects to get done also, but did not know how. Rather than continually going down the slope of "whoa is me, we can't do xyz" they took at much more positive spin on it. Rather than these projects cannot be done, they started to think in terms of "okay, it is possible....now how do we accomplish it?".

That willingness and openness is all that is needed to accomplish the impossible. When you get into an environment like this, look for any and every opportunity to make the most impact, the quickest.

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