“The more grateful we become, the more we experience grace in life.” – Eric Handler
The OWN Ambassadors are positively thrilled to welcome Eric Handler as a featured consciousness leader as part of our 12 Days of Celebrating Consciousness. Eric Handler is the founder of the luminous website Positively Positive, an online oasis of insight and empowerment that brings together people from all walks of life – authors, spiritual teachers, actors, athletes, business people, artists, parents – united around a common vision of sharing pockets of light and love couched in personal experience. Started in 2011, Positively Positive now has more than 1-million fans on Facebook, a thriving Twitter community and daily bursts of inspiration in its e-newsletter including the work of its many contributors.
Prior to founding and running Positively Positive, Eric Handler was working in the entertainment industry for 11 years, as a development executive at Dreamworks and as an agent at the William Morris Agency. Eschewing the expected path for him, Eric looked within and connected to his deeply spiritual call to service, which ultimately led to the creation of Positively Positive.
I had the pleasure of meeting Eric Handler in Toronto in April 2012 during Oprah’s Lifeclass: The Tour and was immediately impressed by his authenticity, grace and compassion. With Eric, the themes, lessons and principles explored on Positively Positive are not hollow promises or characteristics of a persona, but elements alive in every facet of his true being.
As someone who had recently left my career as a lawyer, Eric represented to me the magic and possibility that life has to offer if we live with an open heart, follow our callings and use our lives in service to others. Eric has said, “Success in real estate is about location, location, location. Success in life is about kindness, kindness, kindness.” Eric Handler is the very definition of success.
A few weeks ago, Eric and I had a conversation about the concept of positivity, today’s 12 Days of Celebrating Consciousness theme, and how he, contrary to popular belief, strives for positivity rather than it coming naturally to him. For Eric, the notion of positivity comes from a place of deep feeling, emotion, and a belief in the power of something greater than us. In his article for The Daily OWN today entitled Miracle, Eric explores the concepts of meaning and miracles through the analytic lens of a deeply personal experience, reminding us of the power that comes with being completely present in the moment.
Through Positively Positive and his own lived example, Eric Handler consistently demonstrates that positivity is not a static state of being but a constant process of becoming.
What I admire most about my friend Eric is that he is a seeker – forever and always. He never maintains that he has the answers. He assiduously asks the questions and moves forward driven by his call to share the answers he finds with others. He is a person on the path of discovery and, through his work on Positively Positive; he makes us his travel companions on this journey.
Whether contributor, reader, Facebook fan or Twitter follower, Positively Positive scoops you up and embraces you in a spiritual caravan of love, introspection, and illumination, reminding you that you are not alone. You are part of a community and you are loved.
For this and so much more, we thank you Eric Handler.
Important NOTE: Tune in Wednesday, December 19, 2012 (today) at 3 PM EST / 12 noon PST for the very first Positively Positive Livestream event on Facebook featuring Eric Handler and Danielle LaPorte on “Desire, Goals & Soul: How to Make 2013 Your Best Year Ever” Go to the link below, click on Register HERE and RSVP to the event. You can post your questions in advance and you will get a link to the full Livestream recording afterwards where Eric will be sure to field questions from the OWN Ambassadors community:
http://www.positivelypositive.com/2012/12/16/positively-positive-is-going-live-on-facebook/
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Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/positivelypositive
Eric Handler TEDX Talk: Eric Handler: Sparks of Inspiration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmSTIInQ1g
Eric Handler Huffington Post Page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-handler/
***Prasanna Ranganathan, an original OWN Ambassador, is a lawyer and project manager, writer, ultimate Oprah fan, and television, film, and Academy Awards (Oscar) aficionado. Prasanna is pop-culture personified. When he’s not out bringing JOY to the world or scooping up the lessons at OWN, he can be found on Twitter @PRanganathan. (He is a MUST follow!)