PLEDGE TO BE A "VUP"!!

I am a day late with my post this week...some might say I'm weeks or even months late...but we won't go there because that would be in direct contrast with the message of this post.  I am challenging you as well as myself to be a VUP.  I am sure you are asking yourself what a VUP is (stay with me...this will all make sense.  Should I tell you that this idea came to me in the wee hours of the morning...maybe not.)  I spent a few hours in the emergency room with JT late last night and read the January 2010 issue of Family Circle.  The whole magazine's focus was optimism.  There was a lot of good stuff in those pages and somehow that stuff wove itself into my head and being a VUP is the result.

Now for the definition of VUP!  (Drumroll, please!!) A VUP is nothing more than a "very upbeat person".  I am challenging you to become one.  It's very simple.  It's a matter of choice.  It is a conscious decision to look on the bright side of things.  It is looking for the half-full glass.  It is viewing the world through rose colored glasses.  It is choosing to be happy...joyful...optimistic.

I am going to post things that make me feel "VUPish".  I hope you will do the same. I have a sneaking suspicion that reading other people's "VUPishness" will increase your own.  How's that for a win-win situation?

The sun just peeked through the clouds and I see honest-to-goodness shadows on my den floor.  I love the sunshine.  It makes me happy.  It makes me VUPish.  There.  See how easy it is.

Join me.  I double-dog dare you!