{"id":110,"date":"2013-03-29T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/the-power-of-positive-thinking\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:26:26","slug":"the-power-of-positive-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/the-power-of-positive-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of positive thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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”So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed. Now we all know that is hard. And what would be harder is: doing that with a negative attitude. What we found — Timmy and Vance and I — is that even with only a neutral attitude, you are talking a very hard task. We tried to lift that whale while we were just feeling neutral, Timmy and Vance and I, with a dozen or so other folks, and it was a no-go, that whale wouldn’t budge, until suddenly one fellow, a former Marine, said that what we needed was some mind over matter, and gathered us in a little circle, and we had a sort of chant. We got ’psyched up’. We knew, to extend my above analogy, that we had a job to do, and got sort of excited about that, and decided to do it with a positive attitude, and I have to tell you, there was something to that, it was fun, fun when that whale rose into the air, helped by us and some big straps that Marine had in his van, and I have to say that lifting that dead rotting whale onto that flatbed with that group of total strangers was the high point of our trip<\/b>.” <\/i>(Katkelma George Saundersin lyhytproosap\u00e4tk\u00e4st\u00e4 ”Exhortation” kokoelmassa Tenth of December<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Eik\u00f6 olekin voimaannuttava pikku tarina! Kuinka mahtavaa onkaan lukea t\u00e4llaista pitk\u00e4n\u00e4perjantaina.<\/p>\n

Meill\u00e4 kaikilla on omat m\u00e4d\u00e4t valaan raatomme. Meill\u00e4 on my\u00f6s yhteinen m\u00e4t\u00e4 valaan raato. N\u00e4in kuvaannollisesti ilmaistuna. Eik\u00f6h\u00e4n k\u00e4\u00e4rit\u00e4 hihat hyv\u00e4ss\u00e4 hengess\u00e4 ja k\u00e4yd\u00e4 t\u00f6ihin! Kansalaistalkoisiin! Ilman sielua kalvavaa ja sisint\u00e4 n\u00e4ivett\u00e4v\u00e4\u00e4 ep\u00e4ily\u00e4. Positiivisin ajatuksin. Yhteiseen asiaan uskoen.<\/p>\n

Siin\u00e4 on kest\u00e4v\u00e4n kasvun malli! Niin Suomelle kuin meille kaikille, yksil\u00f6in\u00e4!<\/p>\n

Kaivakaamme siis itsest\u00e4mme esiin rehti, harteikas ja suoraselk\u00e4inen merijalkav\u00e4en sotilas ja tarttukaamme k\u00e4sill\u00e4 oleviin haasteisiin innostuneina ja luottavaisina.<\/p>\n

Kyll\u00e4 se valaan raato nousee! Raskas se on, mutta meiss\u00e4 on hurjasti voimaa! Voimaa, iloa ja positiivista mielt\u00e4! Kun vain tahdomme niin!<\/p>\n

(Tiedoksi kiinnostuneille: minulta voi tilata lis\u00e4\u00e4 t\u00e4m\u00e4n kaltaista yhteishenke\u00e4 vahvistavaa ja ty\u00f6n tuottavuutta parantavaa materiaalia, kunhan vain ensin sovimme riitt\u00e4v\u00e4st\u00e4 kompensaatiosta.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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