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The ChooChoo Jetjoy weekly calendar has another sentence on it this time that fits perfectly to my current situation. (This is getting scary!)



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"しあわせは、しあわせそうな人のところにやってくる。"

"Happiness comes to people who seem to be happy."


In one of my previous entries I wrote about me being a pessimist (or realist how I like to call it) and also explained WHY I have that attitude although I don't want to be that way.
As we all know, it's very hard to change.
nez was the one who mentioned "The Secret". I've heard of the title before, but had no idea about the content, so I researched it:



While I don't believe many things that are being said in the video (or in the book), I do believe that it's a lot healthier to have a positive attitude and try to stay positive with good, positive feelings most of the time in your life.
And I also DO believe that sometimes having a positive attitude can beckon lucky / happy situations.

I do NOT believe that it works in all situations and no matter what.
"The Secret" has been criticized for saying that people are responsible for all the bad things they attract into their lives. But how do you explain natural disasters like the Great Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 in Japan, for example?

Anyways, I've read more about "The Law of Attraction". Some authors are really good at explaining it more or less scientifically.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff is very ..... "blah" and goes into a completely wrong direction for my taste: meditation, reincarnation, spirit, soul, God, .....

However, I take out the "useful" things I find in all the books and websites that might help me become a more positive thinker - because that's what I want in the end.

And I already applied some of it on my recent trip to Hokkaido.
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that my flight back home was over an hour late. From ALL the planes that started that day, my flight was the ONLY flight that was late. And consequently I was SUPER late for work on that day.
Usually, I would have freaked out, sat in a corner at the airport, being super angry, having horrible feelings, panicking what could happen if I'm late for work - although ALL of that wouldn't have changed the situation.
THIS time, however, I tried to stay positive.
Of course, that's a very difficult task for someone who is a master of disaster, a master of negative thoughts. And, naturally, I was angry and disappointed at first. But I tried VERY hard, not to focus on the bad situation. I told myself that I can't change it, that things could be worse - and instead I went on a shopping spree at Chitose Airport.

Here are some photos:



It was a lot of fun, so my mind was mostly filled with positive thoughts.
Later, when I sat in the plane and it just didn't start for another 20 mins or so, I had a hard time again (no distraction for my negative thoughts), but mainly I stayed positive, not making up the worst-case scenarios.
I think that was a first challenge and I'd say I didn't do that bad.

I'll keep practicing hard. No idea if I can ever change, but I surely hope so.
How about you?