The Happyzine community are giving it a go. We've been actively providing uplifting, inspiring, positive news for our subscribers for a year and now it's time to take things to the next level - with a Totally Positive News Competition. The Happyzine website is about to undergo a nice wee upgrade, and once the changes are up live online, people can send in their good news - in written word, photograph, video, audio, art form, what ever - the point is it's time for us all to remind each other just how lucky we are here in New Zealand. This is really not the time to get bogged down in all that negative thinking bollicks that the media are using for news fodder.
It's time to get radical and bring out the inner optimist, because, like it or not - as a nation: the more we focus on it, the more it's going to happen. So let's get back to taking a good look at the good stuff in life. Here are some ideas about the many forms of good news:
* Ingenious thinking in the face of challenge
* Refusal to give up on dreams
* Love
* Intelligent and creative approaches to new and old challenges
* Reasons why life is good
* Stuff that's funny (and kind)
* Random acts of kindness
* Totally intended acts of kindness
* Happy endings
* Sporting achievements
* Business victories (little and not so little) that benefit Aotearoa
* Happy old people
* Groups who are defying their negative stereo types by succeeding
* Art that shouts: enjoy life!
* Innovation where we thought we'd run out of ideas
* Stories of positive environmental change eg a swamp reclaimed, a recycling system saved, the revival of a species, a river cleaned up, innovative business ideas, native forests saved
It takes guts to be an optimist in this funny world where the cynics have heaps to say on Stuff. But by gum it's time for the optimists to stand up and say 'I'm happy and I'm proud!'
In the mean time, send us in your good news if you're keen to get started, I'm always open to nice surprises in my inbox.
Also, if you have any ideas, or would like to contribute prizes to entice the nation to send in the good news, please drop us a line.
Subscribe to Happyzine for free today for updates on the great Totally Positive News Competition which is currently under development. Send us in your words of encouragement and your suggestions too please, because kind words go a long, long way, even for grown ups.
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