Like so many of my ideas, Spying the Good sprang from a need to make a conscious change in my life. I knew I had to do something when I started fantasizing about the actor Peter Finch in the 1976 film, Network. In his role as a broadcaster he was fed up with injustices, ruthlessness and greed, so one night he hung his head out of his apartment window and started shouting, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” He shouted it over and over, people started opening their windows and his rant became their roar echoing throughout the city.
I’m fed up having my emotions kidnapped by life happenings outside of my control; trapped in a bombardment of local and world problems. I’m mad as hell that bad news travels faster than good news and whether it’s my imagination or not it seems like the bad news is piling up pretty high. So my conscious mind is saying it’s time to lighten-up and focus on some day to day good stuff.
The challenge I’m giving myself is to play I spy something with my little eye, and it has to be good. There are no boundaries as to where or what I can ferret out to write about. I can spy something close to me or in a distant land. My finds can be as mundane as a nifty kitchen gadget or as profound as a Save The World organization. Whatever good of the day moves me I will share with you and hopefully brighten your day, along with my own.
If I were to shout from my window, you are not likely to hear me, unless you live in Los Cabos, Mexico. Where you can hear me is by checking in on this blog. I’d also like to hear from you in the easy to use comment sections. Your thoughts, ideas and opinions are welcomed.
If you want to know your past, look at your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look at your present actions. Chinese Proverb
Glad yo are back on a blog I have missed hearing what going on with you folks.
Hey Chris!
I hear your voice in my head as I read this…so good to be in touch. I love your concept and whole intention. I am in the process of building a new website business using http://www.sitebuildit.com The foundher is Canadian ( good thing we like Canadians eh? Ha ha! ) I just love the way he has put it all together. Go online and take a look at his site . It may be your next step…maybe if you want. Anyway, I am having so much fun learning all about how to do this…
Spying the good…there is so much rich material for that…all good ! Focusing on the good can snowball into real solid happiness…xxoolove to you, Rainee
Hi Chris,
It’s about time. I feel the same way about being bombarded by negativity when there are so may positive and wonderful things going on in the world which you only hear about far too infrequently.
I’ll send good news your way when it comes my way… play it forward.
It was great seeing in you Cabos in the spring!
Donna
Hi Chris,
What a good idea – I will send you a feel good as soon as I get one, which will be soon.
Kathy
Hi Chris
Always a pleasure to hear from you. Woo!! Congratulations, it is a great idea. It will be very nice to read you. Anyway, I like to see you in person.
This is a great idea, Chris, and I know you will make it worth reading. Grabbing the feed now. Check your email – for more good.
If I were to shout from my window, you are not likely to hear me, unless you live in Los Cabos, Mexico.
and I do! Shout away, Chris. We can use all the good that’s out there.
Good for you.
Dear Chis,
Congratulations, keep the binoculars focous!!!!
Good news is having so many wonderful people careing for us, and inspiring us to do our best. To see you active again, working at squeezing all those wonderful ideas out of your fertile head. to read Rainee, Meg, and Kathy’s commentaries, . and know that they are with us in soul.
My best news are inhouse, I have seen my son sober and trying to rescue his life out of the pile of rubbish he had burried it under. seeing my daughter in great spirits doing her everyday labor of love at the Hospital.
Good news are all arround us, while working at our everyday endeavours what ever they are, we are able to spot and see the better side of the world.
Keep on shouting, keep on inspiring us!!!. oxoxox teressa.
Just checked ‘the good’ and it was lots of fun. I think we have to get Life of Brian again!! I will email you something that you may find appropriate in light of the latest in the US.
xo
Hey Chris – took me a whlie -but at last I’m checking out yoru blog. I am in awe – I would never get around to doing somehting like that – you rock! And so does Julian’s banner. Wanted to cal you just now but it’s the middle of the night – might do so in the mornign when I wake – sending you an e-mailmeantime if you check it.
xxT
wow Chris, this is some blog – good on ya woman!! you bet good news never seems to make the news. As you know, I’m a real estate agent in Toronto and the market is suffering right now. So I send whatever good news I get across my email desk to my clients and asked a client today whether she got it – “oh yes, but whenever I get something from inside the industry, especially if it’s good news, I take it with a grain of salt!!”
She’d rather listen to the fear mongers instead of being buoyed by some good news. Me, on the other hand, I will not be sucked in by the fear mongers and continue to watch for and listen to good news!!
keep up the good work and let’s count our blessings and be thankful for what we have.
love
lillian
HiChris. Ilike your writing. Keep going. -I am in the same road- good luck. I write in spanish.