Change Our Headlines!

The following headlines are from today’s Grand Rapids Press printed edition. There are 20 pages to the front page section on this day. I did a JjWay survey, meaning non-scientific, and discovered that over 80% of the headlines had negative or neutral description words. That means if I start my day reading the headlines I am already 80% behind on feeling good about the day ahead. How can that possibly help me as I head to work or take part in family activities.

All of us have our own headlines to create today. If we find ourselves creating headlines that make the front news section then we need to change our story, font size and caption. We need to be 160% positive to combat the 80% negative/neutral that comes our way! Let’s do it together!

Main headlines include:
Post It Note on Front: Foreclosed Home Auction 300+ Michigan Homes Must Be Sold!
The post it note covers up I’t a Great Day For Quarterbacks
Current Danger
Richer Half
Now to see how match game plays out
Spring Lake crash kills teen boy
Mental state likely to be issue at trial in girls abduction
Support ahead to save for retirement
Annie get your lawyers
Missing boy found alive - in hidden room at grandma’s
Please don’t feed the wild burros
Godmothers now part of crime syndicate
No Kindle: no problem; ebooks easy to get
Sony plans e-book reader with wireless downloads
Neighborhood watch moves to YouTube
Tainted cookie dough heightens urgency for reform
Study: Hormone therapy for prostate has dangers
Doubt cast on value of cancer indicator
Planned home births said safe
These days we all are gadget geeks
Scary texting ad is popular but it is effective
Heating your home should cost less this year
CIA-Blackwater ties raise more concerns
Burqa bashing may cover up bigger fears
“Civilian surge” into Afghanistan is just starting
Has Conservatism committed suicide?
Tweeting your way through the apocalypse
Going to school on swine flu
Breaking their word, and breaking the CIA
Is Lansing making choices you can live with?
Maybe these jobs weren’t so odd
Howlers on fringe should drive us crazy
Captives in the Hermit Kingdom
GOP tries to recruit it’s own ‘death panel’
In Afghanistan, we must know when to stop
Criticize, but don’t be judgmental

Sideline story headlines include:
Movie money hits home here
Idols visit Allegan Fair
Obama wants your nest egg to grow
The gas gauge
43 suspected militants killed in Khyber region
He’s innocent, brother says
Tour boat sinks, 15 die
Wildfire threat reduced
Candidate family killed
Folic acid can harm your liver
Who’s across the table
Herbicide a greater risk
Ibuprofin tops in study
Saving your feet
Recalls
They said it
Winners and losers

So why are headlines important. They make us stop and consider if we want to read more.
Let’s change our headlines, font size and captions together - and write our own story that will transform our work and life!