I've developed this horrid habit of reading the headlines before preparing my imagination for a full day of writing and producing. During this Social Distancing I've remained very disciplined about being up at 4:30am. Take that walk first thing through late night becoming early morning. I view the moon and the stars while listening to the owls and all other things beginning to wake. Then I poison the moment with headlines from CNN.com, ABCNews.com and everything local. While picking up my writing instrument its wham! I hit a wall so thick that being a free form thinker during my date with stream thinking breaks a part by the poison caused by sensationalism. You never know how important your Martial Arts studies are until the moments of Positive Thinking are invited to the parade. But its only a tool. You can't buy it at Home Depot or have it delivered by Amazon. It's a tool. More than ever its needed during this lingering shutdown. Sadly the power of positive thinking is worthless if you don't activate it. Anyone can bring up a happy thought. It works like ice cream. Up you go for a moment and boom biff bam you've fallen again. On this podcast episode we take a walk through this very subject. I've never hidden the truth about my positive thinking. There are people that just can't stand it because to them it looks fake by way of acting out something so that others don't see the truer colors. Winning is a choice. So is being in a bad mood. Uncertainty is a horrible place to be sitting in everyday. Especially since the news people are laying out the bricks for a path that could send us through the greatest economic depression of all time. How does positive thinking work in this atmosphere? Tools break and positive thinking is one of the first to go. Prayer and meditation right? If you knew how many people tell me that doing it requires too much work and time. We want to be fixed now. Here's what always works. Gratefulness. All of your pieces parts are brought back together. Gratefulness begins with being mindful of everything around you. My computer crashed in a big way this morning. I lost an hour in a half of work. Yep. Start all over! In that down time I sat in my dining room with school teacher wife who was five minutes from starting class. We shared breakfast together. The little stuff man! Be grateful for the almost invisible mundane stuff. It does amazing things for the mind body and soul that's been poisoned by so much gone wrong. The headlines aren't going away. The power of positive thinking will always be available but it becomes a minute by minute choice to really believe in its activation. Yeah I know too much work. Gratefulness always wins.