{"id":57150,"date":"2015-04-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/2015x104x1my-new-positive-outlook\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:28:39","slug":"my-new-positive-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2015\/04\/my-new-positive-outlook.html","title":{"rendered":"My New Positive Outlook – Mrs. Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me start by saying, I am NOT a morning person. My first thought when rolling out of bed in the morning is either, \u201cI hate mornings\u201d or \u201cLet\u2019s talk about how exhausted I am.\u201d But day after day of thinking this to myself began to wear on me. I realized that this pattern of negativity as soon as I woke up, was setting myself up to have a bad day, before the day even really began.<\/div>\n\n
My new pledge is to wake up and think a positive thought, first thing. No more negativity. So this morning, even though I\u2019ve been laid up with a stomach bug, I thought, \u201cI got a long night of sleep last night.\u201d When the sun is shining, I think, \u201cWhat a beautiful day!\u201d I know it seems so simple. I know it sounds like it won\u2019t make a difference. But, try it. Give it a few days- a week. Start by telling yourself something positive as soon as you wake up. This one tiny change may really change your outlook on your entire day. It has made a big difference for me in the past few weeks.<\/div>\n\n
Next on my list of things to do, is start a gratitude journal. Studies show when we write down what we\u2019re grateful for, we become more grateful. Think 1000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp. (If you haven\u2019t read that\u00a0book<\/a>, do it!) I\u2019ll share my journal once I get it started.<\/div>\n\n
Go ahead and give it a try- and please come back and share your results with me. Let me know if \u00a0this positive outlook positively influences you. And if it doesn\u2019t, let me know that too.<\/div>\n\n
If you have a gratitude journal, I\u2019d love to see how you all go about keeping those as well. Let\u2019s share them with each other- and be a positive influence on each other as well.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me start by saying, I am NOT a morning person. My first thought when rolling out of bed in the morning is either, \u201cI hate mornings\u201d or \u201cLet\u2019s talk about how exhausted I am.\u201d But day after day of thinking this to myself began to wear on me. I realized that this pattern of negativity as soon as I woke up, was setting myself up to have a bad day, before the day even really began. My new pledge is to wake up and think a positive thought, first thing. No more negativity. So this morning, even though <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-positivity","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}