Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
Referring to: The Wise Said - Abuse No More
Reducing the negative is always good but research shows you'll be happier if you spend more time focusing on increasing the positive.
More marriages break up due to a lack of positive than an overdose of negative. In fact, how a couple celebrates may be more important that how they fight.
Funny, I didn't read this as "reduce negative" but rather as "increase positive".
Which means you've directly changed the way I think about things like this.
The principle of inclusion says to include the positive.