101 Ways to Move Forward After a Midlife Divorce

Tip # 66. Make Your Own News. Sometimes I don’t read our local paper. They thrive on bad news. Today the big-black headline said “Banks Try to Avert Panic.” Inside it went on … “Economy … one step away from meltdown.” There are headline writers and negative people like that everywhere, who make a habit of making things seem as dark and ominous as possible. I am all for facing the real story whatever it is, but there are people who like bad news. They love the juicy gossip, and the worse the tales of woe, the better they like the story. They not only crane their necks at car wrecks, they film as they go by and retell the grisly story for days. Today, lets make our own good news. Whether we do something personally or recognize a good thing a friend has done or repeat an inspiring story of overcoming the odds, let’s do it. Secular and spiritual history are full of tales of people rising above catastrophe and coming out better than before. We can do it, too. Each one of us is in charge of how our story turns out. Even on our midlife divorce recovery journey, lets take a deep breath, look at the real story and make confident, promising decisions. The awful, terrible, worst-thing-that’s-ever-happened, we’re-on-the-brink-of-disaster mentality gets us nowhere. Lets consciously make some good news of our own today.