• Staying Positive at All Costs •

In life, you can take all the right precautions and do all the right things. Save your money, get good grades, be kind to strangers, visit your grandmother and grandfather every Sunday, pay your taxes, follow all traffic laws, etc. However, sometimes life zigs when it should zag. For example, someone rear-ends on your way to work and at the same time your computer breaks. Later in the day, you find out that your landlord is raising your rent.

When life throws all those different things at you at once it is important to keep a positive mindset. You cannot let setbacks such as these significant or insignificant affect your overall outlook on life. To maintain a positive outlook when life leads to stressful moments such as a car accident is a very good skill to have. A positive mind frame in the face of adversity or negative situations will better equip you to leave a negative situation with a positive lesson. For example, if your laptop breaks instead of looking at it like my laptop broke and that is it. You can look at the situation as “what did I learn from this?” Maybe you learned that leaving your laptop plugged in at all times leads to it breaking, so from now on you won’t leave it plugged in except when necessary. It is important to take something away from a negative event that is positive. If you don’t you are more likely to repeat those same mistakes over and over.

The point being is that no matter what happens to you in your life, and how hard it can be at times to keep a positive attitude. It is key to your mental health through moments that test you to think and act positively. You will feel better about yourself, and confident in your ability to handle any situation. You will also feel better physically as your mental health can also be attributed to how you feel physically.

Remember living your life with a positive outlook is half the battle. Don’t let yourself become victim to your own negative attitude. Life may zig when it should zag, but by allowing yourself to be negative along with it when it does means doing yourself a disservice.

Stay positive