Positivity Changes Everything

Eighteen days ago, on April 1st, I started what I call the Tell Me Something Good campaign.  What happened is that I got up in the morning and thought about putting together my Sunday radio show.  I went online to look at the news and read my email.  Fighting in Libya, radiation in Japan, the unemployed in America... what a grey cloud to wake up to.  I immediately turned away from the news online and looked to my friends on Facebook for something more pleasant.  What I got was a newsfeed full of gripes and complaints and personal grievances that made the grey cloud even darker.  Is this what we do now?  Is this how we stay connected to our friends online, by complaining about our annoying neighbors or moaning and groaning about every other little thing that bothers us?  Why spread that grief with the rest of the world?  I understand that people get angry or frustrated with the problems that surround them, but there is this "obligation" some people have to pass that on to everybody else.  So, after reading a handful of negative and upsetting downer Facebook status posts, I decided to look for some good news.  I typed, "tell me something good" into my browser, like I was just blindly reaching into the sky for the answer... and you know what happened?  My prayers were answered by the great internet gods.  I was taken to Lemonade Life where author Allison Blass talked about a classmate in college who, every time they met, would say to her, "Tell me something good."  That is exactly what people should be spreading, not their own personal drama.  So that morning, April 1st, I posed a challenge to all of my Facebook friends.  I asked them to make the first thing they posted something good.  I suggested doing it for 7 days, but since then I've noticed that spreading positivity for a week makes the week go by so quickly.  People read my posts everyday and share their good thing for the day and some have even asked me to start a blog retelling my experiences with this experiment.  Well, here's the blog... though I refuse to call it an experiment.  The Tell Me Something Good campaign is a way of thinking that I hope shifts and reshapes the way we interact with people daily.  It'll help us get through the hard days and it will make the good days great, because positivity changes everything.  So go ahead, tell me something good.