POLITICS — IS IT ALWAYS DIRTY? Can Politics be Positive?

Now that you know that politics is just we social beings communicating, working, planning, and organizing our life together to create our polis (city or community), you know that politics as such is neither good or bad. What determines whether our politics it is good or bad is how we do politics. Now you can raise the question in your coaching or if you’re involved in a group, “How do you play the game?” Depending on how you do politics, you live out healthy and positive politics or toxic and dirty politics.

You do not have to run for office or be selected to a position in the government before you do politics in one manner or the other. You are a politic being. To the extent that you relate to others, are parts of groups, teams, organizations, companies, associations, communities, etc, you are political. We are all political beings. Being political is part and parcel of being human and that’s why politics comes up in nearly every aspect of our lives.