So, I’ve been thinking about this a while and I wanted to throw something out to you guys and see what you thought.  Now, a lot of you have been amazing at participating in Positive Post Tuesday, and this Tuesday, I wanted to try this out with sort of the same mindset.  Here goes.

To anyone with a blog, Twitter, Facebook or any other one of the numerous social online network things, it’s no secret that at any given point of the day we can hop on thee old laptop and at the same time hop on thee old soapbox.  We can speak our mind freely and openly without really much consequence.  And those that are especially gifted with their wording can get away with saying whatever it is that they want despite the feelings of their readers.  We can talk about what social networks are stupid, or awesome.  We can talk about what our church is doing right and nit-pick everything they are doing wrong.  We can discuss drama at our workplace, school or family.  The freedom of our speech has never been more available.  And I’d like to challenge you… and at the same time challenge myself.  Are you ready?

I’d like to see us all who participate online to follow up everything we write with one simple symbol.  + (positive) or – (negative).  It’s that easy.  Here’s the thought behind it.  ”Is what you just wrote a positive statement / blog post / Tweet / ect?  Or a negative one?”  So what’s the challenge?  To be completely honest with yourself and your readers.  And I dare you to try it.  I dare you to add one little character at the bottom of all your Tweets, blog posts, Facebook status updates, or whatever else you put online for the rest of the world to read.

My hope in this whole thing is to really focus on what I am sending out into the world.  What’s my “emotional footprint” on this whole interweb thing?  Am I one that is constantly throwing out negative (-) statements?  Or am I focussing on, what I believe to be, a bigger challenge and keeping things uplifting and positive (+)?  Now, sure the world is a negative place, and there will be times that I spout off and say something with more of a negative (-) tone, and I can only hope that I’m honest enough with myself and you guys to put that little dash (-) down there when I do.

So what do you think?  You guys up for it?  I dare you to give it a shot and tell your readers what you are doing.

Ready?  Go.

+