Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ---Michael Jordan
Of course, Michael Jordan is the all-time basketball great, the star of six NBA championship Chicago Bulls seasons as well as a NCAA championship season at North Carolina...many regard him as the greatest basketball player ever. When in high school he was turned down for the team, but in reaction decided to put all he had into improving his game...and the rest is history. Turning a negative situation into a positive one isn't just the option for famous, enormously talented individuals like Jordan; we can all benefit from his sage advice. Unfortunately, for me I've often been in the habit of confronting negative scenarios by either avoiding them or just giving up...please don't tell this to Michael. Going through personal storms with dignity and a purpose to make things better at the end is a major way to strengthen oneself and provide deeper meaning to life. And sometimes if I'm not careful I can fall into the trap of perceiving a situation as being negative when it really isn't...holding off on reacting in an unproductive manner can help to turn things around in a hurry: in other words, sometimes it pays to just keep my mouth shut...
As a National Basketball Association team owner, former player, and a black man, Michael Jordan has recently served as an intermediary between the striking players and the rest of the owners on resuming the season in light of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, unarmed but shot in the back seven times, now paralyzed. This is about as negative as it gets...to turn it into a positive situation will require a change of heart across our society...
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