Three months ago I created a challenge that I called Genial January. The idea was to spend the entire month without posting anything negative on social media, in either my own posts or comments.
I don’t know how many people participated. Maybe I was the only one. But I found it to be an extremely worthwhile exercise. Which is why I’m going to repeat it, for Affable April.
We don’t realize just how much time we spend complaining, criticizing, and insulting. I’ve worked very hard to become someone who does that far less often than most people, and I spent very little time on social media in January due to being crazy busy at work, yet I was still shocked at how often I had to stop myself from writing something negative.
There’s a saying in sports: How you practice is how you play. Every time you write something negative on social media, you are training yourself to focus on the negative, which is training yourself to be unhappy.… Read more
