Each day, I read a lot of blogs.  Many of them are motivational and I learn a great deal from reading them.  Today, like most days, I read something that made wrist this post.  The post is from a blog called Tiny Buddha and the title is “It’s time to make a change: If not now when?”

What I read told me to stop making excuses and do what I want to do, now.  I keep telling myself, I need to have the perfect post written before I publish it here but I am having a hard time writing the perfect post.  I realized that if I wait for the perfect post, I may never publish anything.

Many people try to make everything they do perfect and never reach that goal.  Sometimes, people who share ideas or advice that is less than perfect help others much more than if they wait around for perfect.

Are you holding back because you are waiting for perfect?  Leave a comment and let me know if the same thing has happened to you.

For a long time, I always try to have positive mental outlook.  I know that bad things happen, sometimes for a reason and sometimes for no reason and your mental attitude can make a difference on what do when bad things do happen.  I like to read blogs that have a positive message, blogs that give me hope that things will work out.

What I have noticed, just recently, is many of the blogs that I read for positive motivation are very negative or down and depressed.  The same people that I look to for a positive outlook are talking about how life is going bad for them and they are considering giving up their dreams.  These are people who have been positive, some for at least a couple years, who are now saying that it might be time to give up and just be miserable like everyone else that they tried so hard not to be like.

What does this have to do with my posting habits?  Reading negative posts from people who were always positive make me feel negative too.  Reading those negative, unmotivated posts made me negative and unmotivated too and it kept me from posting here.

Luckily, I realized what was happening when I didn’t have to time to read those blogs over the last few days.  Not reading about their lack of happiness and not hearing all their negative words helped me understand that I don’t have to be negative or down because they are feeling  that way.  If they keep focusing on the bad things, they are only going to make them worse and there is a good chance that they will miss out on a good thing that might be right around the corner.

If you notice that the people you go to for motivation are unhappy or negative, put them on hold for a while so that they do not bring you down with them.  Many have heard that old saying, “misery loves company” but make sure that misery has company other than you.