Focus on the Bad - I Mean Good News

I’ve already mentioned previously how my family lived in Papua New Guinea when I was a child. One year there was a ‘civil war’ between the Papuan Police Service and the PNG Military. For 3 days they battled between themselves in the streets of Port Moresby where we lived. It was not extremely serious, no-one was killed and life continued more or less as normal. Neither was it a real war for control of the country. It was more or less just an issue of pride.

However the media in Australia reported the event to be much more substantial than it was. We soon had family and friends from Australia phoning up to make sure we were all OK. For us however, life went on as normal. Everything was good, and we were happy.

As humans we do have the tendency to focus on bad news and to see it as much more serious than it is. We can tend to forget all the good that still is happening all around us. So today, take a break, think of 5 good things that are still happening in your life and see the whole picture. Things may not be that bad after all.