You will be tying your attention up in negative things every day. If you don’t believe this, I challenge you to just stop reading the paper and watching the news for one week and see if you feel different.
The second thing: Get rid of other people that spread negativity in your life. This could be people who complain about their life or the bad condition of the economy, political situation etc. I saw a really cool poster in an office last week. It read ” Complaining about a problem without presenting a solution is called whining”.
If you are not taking responsibility for something that is wrong in your environment and acting to make it better, you are just doing yourself and others a disservice by complaining about it.
Now you might have friends and family that complain and spread negativity, and you are obviously not going to just “get rid” of them, but you could tell them to not speak about these kind of things unless they or you are going to do something about it.
Not only will you start feeling better, but you will have more attention available to focus on creating an awesome life…