Calm Photos

June 19, 2007

Visual Affirmations to the Positive

Filed under: Inspiration, Lessons Learned, Life Philosophy, Motivation, Nature Photography, Ohio, Ohio Photographs, Photography — James Crotty @ 9:20 am

My cycling routine during the week has a new schedule for summer. Last year it was evenings on the Little Miami Scenic Trail in Warren County. This year I’ve switched gears (n.p.i) and started riding in the early morning, going from my home in Kettering, to Riverscape in downtown Dayton, and back home again via Shantz and Shafor in Oakwood. There are more hills as compared to the Little Miami, however, there is just something exhilarating about being out riding at the beginning of the day.

This morning, while coming down the hill on Patterson just beyond Hills and Dales MetroPark, I passed a line of parked cars in front of an apartment complex. There was a bumper sticker that caught my eye:

Save the Planet
Kill Yourself

It caught my eye because of the blatant negativity and hopelessness being communicated. At first I was a little bit angry, thinking to myself the car probably belonged to some such and such. But then I felt some sadness for the person who placed that sticker on his or her car. Sadness because he or she just doesn’t get it.

The truth is that a positive thought is at least 100 times more powerful than one which is negative.

So many people today are anti-this and anti-that. Anti, anti, anti.

Try being pro for a change.

With that in mind I’d like to present some positive affirmations via photographic imagery that clearly shows how I view the world and life, combined with a little saying that keeps me on track toward the positive. I estimate that with this message, and with these photographs, I’m quite easily counteracting the negative effects of that particular bumper sticker as well as others like it, by at least 1,000x.
The Power of Positive
Eagles Forward