Positivity vs realism

[Olaf]

What I notice more and more is that positivity is more important then almost anything, high energy (aka positive or really optimistic) to me almost comes a bit unnatural. From myself I am not really super optimistic or positive, more "realistic" what in another word is to be a bit of a grumpy guy. Hahaha. I have been surrounded lately with allot of positive people and I see how it works for them really well. I see how its not per say "the techniques" that make something work, lets say your the best singer, you have a very good technique, that doesn't mean you are good at presenting it well. Presentation stands apart from technique and you could say presentation what others might call marketing is a technique on itself, but I would ask you what about the energy? Can you call energy a technique? Its kind of hard to fake being positive, not only cause it comes off as robotic and incongruent when its unnatural, but because your just covering your negativity behind a smile. 

So what I am learning is to be congruently more optimistic and positive as there is endless of things to complain about, but that is only holding me back from positive momentum. Therefor I feel success is not even action, because if you act from a place that isn't positive you might get some results, but not the best possible results. Surely being too focused on the outcome is also not good, that is desperation, so its all a fine balance. But if you care a little bit, about the result, then I think becoming more positive, what in other words means, becoming less negative, less complaining or any negative talk, reducing that more and more. Surrounding yourself with positive people aswell and you will adopt a more positive mindset what will yield more positive results. 

Now especially when in your work there is allot of socialising necessary or even when its just making content what is basically a big performance, then your negativitiy will make it hard to grow, to consider being actually a positive force, you will realise that people will be drawn to you like the sun. On the other hand if your extremely toxic, sure, you might get people to join in on your toxicity, but I don't think that is something I want to promote, there is already enough dark stuff that gets promoted, I don't feel it would be any good for the world to promote even more of that. 

So for a guy who is more realistic then optimistic, I would try out for a month to just be super positive and see how it works out, like don't fake it, as that is incongruent and people pick up on it directly, but genuinely try to be more positive what is simply to be less negative, if anyone does this experiment I would like to hear there results in a month, I think it will help you allot. That was my 2 cents for the day for you guys, much love.