Doom and gloom?

Is all the talk of recession, foreclosures and bank bailouts getting you depressed? It can all be so overwhelming since it is everywhere. It is the TV headlines, on the internet and front news in the papers. One can only take so much! This is one reason I don't listen to the nightly news and I skim over newspaper headlines. It is one thing to be informed and it is quite another to be innundated with all this negative information. The more you listen or read about the current happenings the more you get caught up in it and the more you focus on negative feelings. You get stressed, you worry, you get overwhelmed and feel like you are drowning with no way out. Unfortunately, we know that most news is negative because that is what gets people's attention. What I choose to do is focus on the positive things in my life and I have many things to be grateful for these days. I enjoy spending time with my family, working out and being healthy, decorating the house for Halloween, having my girls night out, enjoying the fall weather and the turning of the leaves. We may have to be aware of our spending but there is alway an ebb and flow to life and I look forward to all the wonderful things that I have yet to experience. Doom and gloom or life is an adventure and what's next? Choose to focus on the positive!