POSITIVE MOMENTS CAN BE BENEFICIAL!
Positive moments can be beneficial when we focus on them instead of what’s not currently working. What we focus on expands! Thus, we have to be careful what we think about. It’s easy to focus on the negatives and most people do. Champion focus on positive moments!
MY NORTHWESTERN EXPERIENCE
When I spoke in Chicago, I went by Northwestern University in Evanston. That visit was a case of nostalgia. I spent my 1965 summer, between my junior and senior years in high school, at the National High School Speech Institute at the university. The picture above of Northwestern is from questbridge.org.
That was an amazing summer as I worked in the radio and television studios of the university and got to know high school students from all over the country who were part of the program. Keeping in mind that positive moments can be beneficial, those were positive moments.
THE BASEBALL T-SHIRT IN ISRAEL
Something else that I remember with great fondness is what my uncle in New York sent my brother and me in 1956 when we lived in Israel. That was just before my family immigrated to the United States and my uncle sent us a couple of yellow T-shirts.
That’s me in the picture, after we arrived in America, when I was 9, along with my mother, in February of 1957.
I was wearing the T-shirt, which was from the old New York Giants baseball team. You’ll notice the old-fashioned phone, when it was wired into the wall.
POSITIVE MOMENTS CAN BE BENEFICIAL IN OUR MEMORY!
We all get depressed from time to time and I certainly do. Perhaps, at those moments, we should think back to simpler times that meant a lot to us, were positive experiences, and made us feel good.
That summer at Northwestern was very special. The feeling of wearing the T-shirt from America to school was very special. Those were positive times that I need to treasure in my memory bank and bring to mind when I feel down.
MAKING A LIST OF 10 MOMENTS
What if we made a list of 10 moments from our past that made us feel special and that we cherish? And, when we feel depressed, what if we took out that list and brought those moments from the past to the forefront?
Positive moments can be beneficial. Thinking about them could change our momentum and, for a moment, put the past ahead of us.
A NOSTALGIA DAILY AFFIRMATION
“I’m making a list of positive moments from my past and think about those to help me move ahead.”
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