Obviously, a journey begins with a single step, but personally, I have encountered a follow-on need to nurture positivity; it primes my perception for opportunities and choices, rather than browbeating and relentless disparagement.
I could adopt the age-old argument that greatness comes from voluntary misery, but I’ve lived way too long in a wretched and destitute, tit-for-tat, transaction-driven model where the victor wins a torturously anemic sip of happiness before plunging back into an ocean of contestation and suffering. If I eat good food, I’d like to enjoy it without hemming and hawing. If I see good movies, I’d like to appreciate them without obsessing over how they could have been better. And if I write a story that I love and approve of when I hit publish, I’d like to move on to the joy of writing the next one, without bemoaning how I could have added or subtracted this or that.
Perhaps that means I forsake the masses’ definition of “greatness.” I don’t think it’s an either/or, but if I’m deemed outwardly great while being inwardly miserable, then I believe I’m in conflict with my existential purpose.
Kent Wayne 
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