Anticipate the positive

This onslaught of questioning is all about them anticipating the positive. They are prepping themselves for the good stuff. They are lit up like Christmas trees talking about what toys they will bring, what we are going to see and do while there, etc.

Come to think of it, they get the same way when we tell them we are going out for ice cream, heading for the beach, etc.

My kids, like so many others, are good at getting excited about the good stuff.

I am not sure when it happens, but we adults seem to lose our ability to anticipate the positive. I wish I had a dollar for every person who has told me, "I can't get excited about that trip (dinner, movie, play, etc.) until I get through this."

As adults, many of us not only have forgotten the power of anticipating the positive, but also have taken that great gift of anticipation and used it instead for negative anticipation.


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