My husband Steve, teases me about living in an orange bubble. Those of you who know me know that the color orange plays a big part in my life and how I brand myself. In fact, I often receive orange gifts from friends and colleagues…which BTW I love!
Radiate O.R.A.N.G.E.!
So what is the Power of O.R.A.N.G.E.? Well different colors generate different energy and emotion. The color orange creates feelings of happiness and positive energy! I surround myself with orange to inspire happiness and positive energy. A happy and positive attitude is one of my core values that defines how I choose to live my life. Because I am an acronym addict I felt the need to come up with one for O.R.A.N.G.E! Are you ready? Optimistic Radiant Attitudes Nurture Great Energy! O.R.A.N.G.E. simply is about radiating positive energy to attract more great energy in your life. In other words if you radiate an optimistic attitude you will nurture great energy in your environment.
So why should we care about radiating a positive attitude? Well, you may have heard our attitude determines our altitude in life! Our attitude affects our altitude by creating positive or negative energy in the environment around us. This energy we create can generate either our success or our failure based on the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction is like seeks like based on the frequency of energy emitted. All energy has different vibration frequencies. Positive energy seeks other positive energy with the same frequency and negative energy seeks other negative energy with the same frequency. I would like you to think about a day when your world seemed friendlier. Maybe the birds sang louder, the sun shined brighter, and people even let you merge into traffic. We have all had one of those days when we think wow, if everyday could be like today, it would be awesome. Maybe they can be. I wonder what your role was in that day. I wonder what mood you were in when it started. I wonder what you wearing, how it made you feel, and were you smiling? When we feel good about ourselves, we radiate positive energy! The energy we put out there always resonates back to us. We do create our environment whether it is positive or negative!
Not only does attitude affect our environment it also affects our health. Bad attitudes are harmful to our health. Consistent negative thoughts, words, or actions, such as anger, gossip, or complaining, whether we are the giver, or the receiver, or even just in the vicinity, change the electricity in our brain, which changes the energy in our body. The organs that need that energy are no longer nourished and they get disease and sometimes they die. Our attitude is everything in creating a happy and healthy environment.
I am often asked how I stay so happy and positive. I will share with you that it is not only because I meet nice people. I meet some of the same people that you meet who are not always so lovely! It’s also not because my life is perfect or that everything is easy. I have had many difficult times and things don’t necessarily go my way. Instead it’s a choice I make every day! It’s a choice to be happy and positive regardless of what may come my way. I choose to smile and impact others in a positive manner regardless of what is happening. I don’t ever want to give my power to be happy over to another person or a situation.
I created two orange rubber bracelet bands as a reminder that I have a choice to be positive and happy! One reads “Smile & Shine” and the other reads “TA-DAH!”! I wear them every day. They are available on my website at www.PracticeSolutionsInc.net. Smile energy is extremely powerful and wide spreading. A smile instantly creates positive energy in the environment and uplifts the mindsets of the giver, the receiver, and everyone in the vicinity.
Sometimes life can seem difficult. Here is the biggest secret about staying happy and positive in difficult times. It does not take any super powers or anything special. It is simply a clear understanding of the power of focus.
“Our focus creates our attitude.” If you focus on the positive you will have a positive attitude. If you focus on the negative you will have a negative attitude. Find a reason to be happy and feel good everyday and you will be. It is simple but not easy to do. Focus on the positive. Focus on what is good and right regardless of how simple, normal or mundane it may seem. See the value even in the little things in life.
The hard part is that our human nature to emphasize the negatives and downplay the positives. We are drawn to the negative! Just look at the news and the shows that get coverage in the newspaper, magazines and TV! Drama and negativity draw the biggest following. There are very few shows that highlight the positive. Negative is what sells! The sad truth is it is not in our nature to focus on the positive!
However, we can change that by developing S.P.F.! A Super Positive Focus! I told you I was an acronym addict! It is important to focus on what is already in our life and our world and appreciate it. It becomes much easier to do this if we embrace these simple facts:
• Life is uncertain
• Life is unexpected
• No one owes us anything
• Life can change in a moment
Once we embrace these facts we will learn to appreciate what we have and what is regardless of what has happened and what isn’t. Regardless of how difficult a situation may get you can always find something positive to focus on. Even if the only positive is the lesson learned. Look for three potential positives in any situation or any person. When you find yourself sliding to the negative ask yourself the following questions:
• What are three potential positives?
• What lessons can I learn from this?
• What changes can I make to make it more positive?
Practice giving thanks and praise daily for what is already in your life. The more grateful we feel the happier we feel and the happier we feel the more we have to give thanks and praise. It is a very fulfilling cycle of positive circulation.
Words that label have tremendous impact on our attitude. We have to be careful on how we label the relationships, events and outcomes we have in life. If we label something as bad it becomes our belief and we manifest feelings and emotions that support the label of bad. I find using the word interesting instead of bad, stressful or difficult takes away the negative power.
Our beliefs of positive and negative are based on our past experiences. If we do something and we have what we believe to be a negative outcome we will label it as negative. Yet we may have an entirely different outcome if we attempted to do it again. For example, I went on a hot air balloon ride over Napa Valley for my 50th birthday (just a few short years ago). It was serene and wonderful. I am even afraid of heights and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I would label it as a very positive experience. However the following day the winds came up unexpectedly and the balloons had a difficult time landing. I may have labeled it as negative had I gone on that day…and most likely would never consider going again. The great news is we can change our belief from negative to positive when we add new experiences that are positive.
Truthfully, how can we label something as good or bad if we don’t know the end? None of us have a crystal ball. So how do we really know if something is good or bad? There have been many things in my life that at the time seemed interesting that actually turned out generating a very positive outcome. Haven’t we all thought or said this is going to be bad at one time or another and yet it turned out to be one the best things to happen to us.
The bottom line is that a positive attitude is really just a skill set that we can learn to develop. Choose to be O.R.A.N.G.E and radiate an Optimistic Radiant Attitude to Nurture Great Energy in your life!
About the Author
Judy Kay Mausolf is a dental practice management coach, speaker and author with expertise in helping others become happier and more successful! She is Past President of National Speakers Association (Minnesota Chapter), Director of Sponsoring Partners for the Speaking Consulting Network, and a member of the National Speakers Association and Academy of Dental Management
Consultants.
