http://www.only-positive-news.com Positive news updates and inspiring stories from around the world. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:25:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Positivity is definitely something the world can use more of.  It is so easy to get caught up in the negative messages we receive from press, friends, and associates that we lose sight of the good things in life.  We are here.  We are able to logically think, and critically ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/55 For 85 hours George Hood focused on nothing but pedaling his bike.  He was allowed a 5 minute break for each hour of pedaling completed.  However, other than that, he was on a mission to pedal, and pedal, and pedal some more.  What he was racing toward wasn't really any ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/54 It is easy, at times, to be wrapped up in our own little worlds.  It is easy, to remain uninterested in those that we don't personally know or have any real connection to.  It is easy, just to keep going in the same tracks that you have walked in past ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/53 Last year Anchorage residents built a 16 foot snow creature they lovingly called Snowzilla.  It raised quite a bit of interest with news reports being made as far away as Japan and Russia.  This year, the same team of innovators are reaching for the skies and creating a 25 foot ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/52 This has been my mantra for the 22 years I have been working to get my college diploma.  It is never too late.  This past week, my family agreed as they watched me graduate.  It was a great feeling to have finally accomplished such a big goal.  I read this week ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/51 In a strange twist of events in China, the world's tallest man reached deep into the stomachs of two dying dolphins to pull out pieces of plastic.  Apparently surgical instruments were unable to get a good enough hold to extract the pieces and normal length arms were too short.   The ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/50 When Austin was age 9, all he wanted to do was make his schools' basketball team.  He didn't make it.  So, he decided to learn more about where his penpal lived instead.  What he found was startling. Austin learned that as a result of the AIDs epidemic in Africa about 15 million children ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/49 A month or so ago I told you about the "free hug" movement that had made it's way from Australia to China.  This week the movement has made its way to Seoul, Korea where it was also met with a certain level of resistance.  Seems that the East still hasn't learned ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/48 It would have taken the man almost three years to earn the amount of cash he found in the suitcase.  No one had seen him find it, and no one would have ever known he had it.  But, he knew.  Jose Breta was performing his duties as a trash collector working ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/47 A new organization is helping to raise funds awareness of mental health issues by climbing the 7 Summits, the highest peaks on each continent. Expedition Hope was founded by Joe Lawson, a survivor of suicide. It is great to see more awareness of mental health being promoted by someone with a great ... http://www.only-positive-news.com/archives/46