Last week we received a ton of feedback on the topic, “Creating Our Own Weather System.”
As a result, copied below are two of the replies we received. It seemed best to simply share these insights verbatim (author's name follows each comment):
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...So, I just did a talk called, “How to Get Along with Human Beings and Other People.”
In it I offered several points... For instance, according to William Eddy, 24% of the population has either clinical conditions or a maladaptive personality that makes them not want to have “sunny weather” (that is the percentage in the general public, it is possible that in some niches, that number is greater).
I also mentioned that the best way to get along with human beings and other people is to surround yourself with human beings, and dismiss as quickly as possible each piece of necessary activity with “other people.”
As I once heard Dr. Phil state (and I am pretty sure he stole it from Yogi Berra), “People don’t want to be around people that they don’t want to be around.”
My closing was: “The great John Lennon ‘imagine(d) a world where people lived in peace, where people would be as one.’
I say that is too lofty of a goal. But each of us can create a microcosm of Lennon’s imagined world, by building our own little “world” where people live in peace; where people will be as one.”
- Jim Comin
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...Creating your own weather...
Positive attitudes are like magnets....they attract everybody, especially the glass half empty people.
I think of people who I go to in crisis situations and they are the ones I know will tell me, “things will be ok,” even if I know they don't have a crystal ball and may even be wrong in their optimism.
Sometimes these positive people are unrealistic, but, I'd much rather be around them than the down and outers...
- Dave Rodland
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Thanks Jim and Dave for your well-reasoned and joy-filled input. From what I hear, it’s 75 and sunny where you are – every-where you are!
Certainly none of us can control our circumstances. On the other hand, maybe - just maybe - we can choose how we respond to our circumstances.
