While we have to follow what happens in the world to some extent, curating our news feed so it contains more positivity is also important. That’s where pages like Tank Sinatra’s good news Instagramaccountcome in. Here are somepositive newsstories from them to make your today’s news feed at least a little bit more uplifting!
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Tank’s Good News is one account of many under the brand of Tank Sinatra (others includeInfluencers in the Wildand the original Tank Sinatra meme page). Tank is one of the most prolific meme creators online, with some even calling him “The Michael Jordan of Memes.“Sinatra launched the Instagram page back in 2017, and it has since racked up over three million followers. But don’t worry,Tank Sinatraisn’t the real name of the person behind all these accounts. The man is George Resch, and, as hetold amNYlast year just before the holidays, the idea to create such a page had been brewing in his mind for a long time. For 35 years, to be exact.
Tank’s Good News is one account of many under the brand of Tank Sinatra (others includeInfluencers in the Wildand the original Tank Sinatra meme page). Tank is one of the most prolific meme creators online, with some even calling him “The Michael Jordan of Memes.”
Sinatra launched the Instagram page back in 2017, and it has since racked up over three million followers. But don’t worry,Tank Sinatraisn’t the real name of the person behind all these accounts. The man is George Resch, and, as hetold amNYlast year just before the holidays, the idea to create such a page had been brewing in his mind for a long time. For 35 years, to be exact.
“I remember watching the news as a little kid with my father and asking him ‘Why are there so many murders, kidnappings, robberies, etc.’ and he said: ‘There aren’t, it’s just whatthe newsfocuses on.’ My mind was blown, I just couldn’t understand it.“Resch also told the publication that tries to commit small acts of kindness whenever he can. One of the ways is to give his CVS ExtraBucks away to others. “I try and find an elderly person or maybe aparentalone with their kids. Sometimes it’s $3.00 sometimes it’s $30.00, but it’s always nice to give to people, whether they need it or not. It’s about reminding people that random good things do happen.”
“I remember watching the news as a little kid with my father and asking him ‘Why are there so many murders, kidnappings, robberies, etc.’ and he said: ‘There aren’t, it’s just whatthe newsfocuses on.’ My mind was blown, I just couldn’t understand it.”
Resch also told the publication that tries to commit small acts of kindness whenever he can. One of the ways is to give his CVS ExtraBucks away to others. “I try and find an elderly person or maybe aparentalone with their kids. Sometimes it’s $3.00 sometimes it’s $30.00, but it’s always nice to give to people, whether they need it or not. It’s about reminding people that random good things do happen.”
“I’m a big believer in the fact that things have always been the way they are,” Resch alsotold the NACS podcastthis year. He says the key to being content is living in the moment. “People will say: ‘Things are worse now.’ I think certain things are worse, but certain things are better. And 100 years ago certain things were worse and certain things were better,” he said, explaining his philosophy.
While telling his story on the Rachel Ray Show in 2021, Resch said that the inspiration for his good news page came partly from a photo. The woman in it issitting on a jet skiin her flooded home after Hurricane Harvey. Resch explains how her smiling through this hardship made him realize that “Even in a tragedy, attitude is everything.”
The good news page is proof that kindness can be contagious. On the NACS podcast, Resch recalled how one man messaged him saying how the page inspired him to start a non-profit, and that it’s what he’s been doing now full-time for years. Yet George isn’t quick to take credit. “It’s not me,” he said on the Rachel Ray show. “It’s the content of the page. [It] changed the way they see the world.”
If you’re really fed up with negative news, there are ways to lessen the negative effects it has on your mental health. The mental health experts at Growth Therapysaythat the first step could be limiting your exposure to traditional news sites. Turn off news app notifications and give yourself a limited amount of time per day to read news sites. But don’t go full cold turkey; you have to know what’s going on in the world.
You can also curate your news feed and include more positive news sites into your feed. Along with Tank’s Good News, try following more similar good news pages. Like theGood Black Newspage that shares “the good things black people do, give or receive all over the world.” Or giveGood Good Gooda try, an independent good news media organization.
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