Express your Self(ie)

Positive attitudes can include:

• It is looking adversity in the eye… and laughing.

• Getting what you get, and not pitching a fit.

• Enjoying the unexpected, even when it’s not what you wanted originally.

• Motivating those around you with a positive word.

• Using the power of a smile to reverse the tone of a situation.

• Being friendly to those you don’t know.

• It’s getting back up when you fall down. (No matter how many times you fall down.)

• Being a source of energy that lifts those around you.

• Understanding that relationships are more important than material things.

• Being happy even when you have little.

• Having a good time even when you are losing.

• Being happy for someone else’s success.

• Having a positive future vision, no matter how bad your current circumstances.

• Smiling.

• Paying a compliment, even to a total stranger.

• Tell someone you know that they did a great job. (And mean it.)

• Making someone’s day. (Not just a child’s… adult’s like to have their day be special, too!)

• It’s not complaining no matter how unfair things appear to be. (It is a waste of time… instead, do something!)

• Not letting other people’s negativity bring you down.

• Giving more than you expect to get in return.

• Being true to yourself… always (Jarrow, 2012).