Optimism vs. Murphy's Law - Part 1

I just wanted to let everyone know that we made it back from our road trip to Scotland. I'm currently working on the pictures - trying to find the best ones to show you. That's not an easy task when we take over 800 pictures, so I'm not quite finished yet.

Before I get the whole story posted on the blog (and it's going to take me a while so be patient), I wanted to talk a little about Murphy's Law - and the best way to deal with it.

Everyone knows some version of Murphy's Law. Usually it goes something like: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". I hate to tell you this if you didn't already know, but even if your life is great and you're living the way you believe you should, things will still go wrong! I think that the real problem, though, is not what goes wrong, but what we do after that!

So many people dwell on the negative. If something bad happens, they just throw their hands up in the air and stop trying to change it. WHY?!? Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If I'm optimistic, then when things go wrong, I think, "I can do something to improve this situation". Of course being an optimist and thinking this way means that I'm probably going to take action, so things probably will change for the better.

If you're a pessimist, that can become self-fulfilling as well because when something goes wrong, you think that you're powerless to change it. If you've already given up on being able to change anything, then you'll take no action to make things better and therefore things will probably get worse.

I don't have any answers to the age-old question, Why do bad things happen?, but I do have a solution: Change it! We all have the power to change anything about our situation that we dislike. The only question is: Will you take action?

So here's to taking action and not sitting back and letting bad stuff ruin my life, my situation...or my Scottish vacation.

Cheers!