I am a positive person. Why? What made me that way?
The Beatles were together as a group during my formative years from 1960 to 1970 (when I was 10 to 20 years old) and their music really influenced me. I even had a poster of Paul my favourite Beatle hanging in my bedroom.
Most of their songs were positive from She Loves You to Good Day Sunshine to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Do you know the song Let It Be by the Beatles?
I watched James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” in which he was driving around Liverpool with Paul McCartney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ . Each time they sang a song I laughed or cried. Every one of them reminded me of my youth.
I started thinking that perhaps Beatles’ music affected me in another way than I had thought. Could it be another of the reasons I’m so positive?
When I say positive, I don’t mean “Pollyana-ish”. I’m not positive all the time. I’m human and sometimes I feel down – but not for longer than a day or two. I always look for something good in everything that happens. There’s sunshine behind every cloud.
Positive thinking allows me to be self employed, look for the good in everything that happens especially when it’s a “bad” thing, not take things personally, look at problems as opportunities for learning, have hope that the pandemic will end, be curious, and so on. (More about positive thinking to come in another post.)
Was I born a positive thinker? No. No one is.
So be positive and as the Beatles say “Here Comes the Sun”. Here it is for you to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc1ta1UMGeo