My money is on Karma

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." ~Nelson Mandela

Glass half full.
Look on the bright side.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Rainbows need rain first.
Give and ye shall receive.
And my personal favourite ... Karma can run over any dogma.

Clearly there have been a lot of positive thinkers and doers (I could have filled pages and pages with positive, catchy, one liners) throughout the ages, so why is it that it is so easy for most of us to fall into "negative Nelly" mode and then proceed to bring anyone we can down to the depths with us? This truly is a million dollar question - figure out the answer, and I mean the REAL answer; an answer that you can test, prove, teach, repeat, etc.. and you will see the world on someone else's dollar as companies, sports teams, governments, ... pay for you to extol your wisdom and knowledge to their masses. (Not a bad gig if you can get it.)

Until then we all have to master our own internal nay-sayer a little bit at a time. So go ahead and treat yourself, or better yet your team/family/co-workers to some "positive cake". Share the cake, savour the richness and associate its gooey goodness with a positive attitude and then anytime you start (overtly) steppign over to the dark side remember the cake, and how good it was, and how "happy" you were eating it (before you started counting calories and fat grams) and channel that positivity to help you ...

See the glass half full; Look on the bright side; Realise every cloud has a silver lining, and ultimately that unless you adopt a more positive perspective your karma is going to run right over your dogma's a**. :)