Be Contagious

Pretty quiet tour at work this time around. Usually when your driving the aerial you prepare for a bit of an ass kicking. Especially through the nights. But for whatever reason, it was not too bad this time around. I will take it:-) Don't get me wrong, I love being busy, but not doing 8-12 calls in a night is sometimes sort of nice. Reduces the first day off Zombie status I usually title myself with. Still may squeeze in a nap today if I can though! Rest is important:)
When I hear the word contagious, I think of some sort of sickness you contract from someone. Like the common cold, the flu, flesh eating disease, and so on. Maybe not the flesh eating disease, but you get the picture. These types of thoughts pop into my head 9 times out of 10, as I am sure they do with you as well.
Well I would like to shed some light on a more positive side of the word, in my eyes anyways.
I find myself always trying new types of training, diets, and other things that I think improve my life in some capacity, while making me a better person as a whole. Quite often, more than not, these little missions, (cause I like to think of myself as a super agent or perhaps a ninja! LOL!)

put me under the microscope and scrutiny of my peers. Not quite understanding the way my brain works, not that I have a good grasp on it either, the people that surround me on a daily basis often challenge me on what I am doing. I am not sure if it is because it is slightly out of the norm and off the beaten track, or just that it seams too hard or too much of a pain in the ass for them. Either way, I am met with questions and more than a few raised eye brows most of the time.
I like this "challenge" to be quite honest. When someone questions what you are doing it makes you actually step back and really evaluate your current actions and path. Perhaps seeing a missed placed step, or in contrary, confirming that what you are doing is right on. I think I find more encouragement when someone tells me not to do something, it will be too hard, take too much time, or that I can't do something. Once my mind is made up, I am sorry, but your just throwing fuel on my fire and solidifying that it can and will be done! Not only am I going to do it for myself, most importantly, but now.........also to show YOU that it is possible. So hop on the train or step aside, cause if you don't, you may get run over:-)
This way of travelling through life is contagious I think. You see a big resistance, so to speak, at first. But after awhile the questions start taking a bit of a different form. More like curiosity. You start to see the gears turning and the thoughts that perhaps they too could give whatever it is your doing a try. "Cause hey, if you can do it, and it seems to be working and your happy, then why the hell can't I?"
This happens with all sorts of good things. Whether it be keeping your nose to the grind stone and working hard, to something as simple as a smile. Not all things contagious are bad. A matter of a fact, there are a million times more good/positive contagious things than the bad. It comes down to what you focus on throughout  each and everyday, and how you carry yourself about. Keeping a positive attitude towards everything, the half full look at life, as apposed to the negative half empty perspective, is all it takes. You will find yourself smiling more and quite simply more happy with life. And that is what it's all about. When your happy, the hard work of continuous self improvement, and life in general, does not seem that bad at all.
So be contagious everyday. Then watch the world and people around you become infected:)

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