Pernicious Pessimism or Perky Positivity? | Praise Podcast

Lessons from my mom . . . and that darn rooster! Listen now!

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00:00:01 --> 00:00:06 In cartoons, we often see a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.

00:00:06 --> 00:00:11 Pernicious pessimism and perky positivity can be like that also.

00:00:11 --> 00:00:17 Keep listening for today's episode as we discuss.

00:00:17 --> 00:00:26 Hello and welcome to MoMo634, the daily podcast chock full of faith-filled inspiration and motivation.

00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 MoMo634 Motivational Moments just for today.

00:00:50 --> 00:01:01 My mother and I were polar opposites in every conceivable area of our lives, looks, temperament, and most especially body clocks.

00:01:02 --> 00:01:20 Having heard me wax on about insomnia and sleep issues, none of which are new, you can only imagine the reaction of younger me when mom would come into my room to open the drapes at, oh, not noon 30 with a chipper.

00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 Yes, chipper.

00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 Good morning.

00:01:25 --> 00:01:32 The woman was perky, downright perky and early in the day.

00:01:33 --> 00:01:46 Thankfully, my first and middle names come from her sensible mother, whose motto was, we don't talk until grandmother has had her second cup of coffee.

00:01:46 --> 00:01:51 But there's something to be said for mom's perky positivity in the mornings.

00:01:51 --> 00:02:00 Subconsciously, it's what I've tried to recreate here by starting our days on a positive note, because it sets the course for the day.

00:02:01 --> 00:02:10 Prayerfully, now that I have the worst of this flu behind me, I can get back to scheduling these episodes for early morning.

00:02:10 --> 00:02:20 The illness alone has made mornings difficult, but the last few days have had other crises to handle right off the bat as well.

00:02:20 --> 00:02:28 Thus, it brought into sharp focus my automatic knee-jerk reaction to see things negatively first.

00:02:29 --> 00:02:33 Pernicious Pessimism at its absolute worst.

00:02:33 --> 00:02:39 I'd take a dose of my mom's morning perky positivity over it any time.

00:02:39 --> 00:02:43 Yes, even at oh not noon 30.

00:02:43 --> 00:02:50 If you've listened to the episode The Nice Game, you know I've always tried gamifying the things that don't come naturally to me.

00:02:51 --> 00:03:01 So upon waking and saying my prayers, I'm trying to just lay there in bed and turn negative thoughts running through my head into positives.

00:03:01 --> 00:03:09 I can start with three negatives, then sentences have to be in the form of a positive from there on out.

00:03:09 --> 00:03:14 The Bible says this far better than I ever could.

00:03:14 --> 00:03:19 We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God.

00:03:20 --> 00:03:27 And we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

00:03:27 --> 00:03:28 2 Corinthians 10 5.

00:03:28 --> 00:03:42 I don't have to wake at oh not noon 30 to be positively perky like mom or that rooster, but I can certainly learn something from both.

00:03:42 --> 00:03:46 Our meme for today says both pernicious pessimism

00:03:46 --> 00:03:52 and Perky Positivity can be learned and unlearned.

00:03:52 --> 00:03:55 Choose wisely.

00:03:55 --> 00:04:00 Do you tend toward pernicious pessimism or perky positivity?

00:04:00 --> 00:04:01 How so?

00:04:01 --> 00:04:03 Chime in in the comments.

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