Challenge Extended: Positivity 2013, Will You Accept?

In college, someone once said to me that she always liked that I had so much "positivity". I didn't know what she meant back then. Did I giggle a lot in class? Was I overbearingly complimenting every thing I see? "Positivity" didn't used to have so much meaning back then because being 18, it was fairly easy to coast through the challenges life had to throw.

On the last few days of 2008, I went through one tough challenge. It felt like ten truckloads of ice were dumped on me. I faced New Year 2009, and several months after that, feeling my world ended and the future was bleak and ugly. My battle scars from that challenge remain, but these hardly bother me now. I know I got through fine because I went through a period of soul-searching and finally understood what "being positive" meant.

I found resiliency I didn't know I had in me that other challenges I've faced since then are usually settled with me feeling unfazed and unruffled. Positivity made me reasonably stronger and focused.  And I've become a firm believer of "shaping your life for the better, if you constantly think happy thoughts."

This isn't to say that I had to live in delusion and denial during those tough times. I could write something about that in the future, but for now, with the year ending and 2013 merely hours away, I'm posting this challenge to anyone who will accept:

I found this bit in one of the self-help/happiness pages I subcribe to on Facebook and I know that this may seem fairly easy to do...in the beginning. But, you know, what have we got to lose by doing this? I think it's a good way to motivate people.

To make it more fun, I proposed to a couple of friends to throw in a few hundred bucks each time we put a note in our jar. So that, by the end of the year, we'd have little money saved up to use...for whatever. (Shopping money, wheee!)

I'm actually very excited to do mine, that  the possibility of me slacking with this activity by the middle of the year, is something I'm trying not to get into. (POSITIVE THOUGHTS, dude!)

I didn't get an empty jar per se. Instead, I am making use of this old canister... coz I like that it has PRETTY FLOWERS.  And I'm gonna have to put that as one of my first notes! See? I'm starting with something positive already!

So, are you up for the challenge? I'm gonna be checking back in a couple of months for progress! Deal?