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There’s a powerful and simple question: is this something I can take for granted?

The moment we evaluate if or how we can take something for granted, we realize we might already be.

Stay Positive & Better To Attack It In The Present Than The Past

Writing for others is really just a smart way to remind yourself of the lessons you’ve learned or to stretch the imagination of your own mind.

Teach others is really just a smart way to build your own intellect on a subject.

Spending time with others is really just a way to overcome the feeling of loneliness of ourselves.

Hard to argue that any of these actions are selfish, right? But they are. And they are in the best way possible.

Stay Positive & Selfish By Way Of Selfless Is The Best Kind Of Selfish

It would be easy, but certainly not as fulfilling, rewarding, lesson-teaching, growth-challenging…

Stay Positive & The Hard Parts Is What Creates The Worth

Far better to act now.

Before the boss does.

Before you get content and inaction becomes the normal pattern.

Before the iron cools off.

Before the lizard brain speaks up.

Before someone else does and gets the credit.

Before you’re distracted.

Before you finish reading this blog post.

Before it’s needed.

Stay Positive & Sooner The Better

It blows my mind how so many zero in on a trip on February or March to have something to look forward to after the new year and winter blues sets in.

The premise is tried and true. It takes no convincing for me to write that we’re generally happier and more connective with others when we have something to look forward to.

Which begs the question: what are you looking forward to later today? This weekend? Next month?

You don’t need to post a lovely mantra in front of your computer every day to stay positive. Sometimes reading the same thing gets old, anyway. But having something to look forward to front and center?

Magic is in the possibilities. Happiness is in the magic.

Stay Positive & Make Something To Look Forward To

The first thing about lists is that they’re never as long as we think they’re going to be. That way of thinking is merely a cop out from the work of having to take action once the list is complete.

But those who make lists are better off for it.

Lists of pros and cons. Lists of tasks. Lists of wish-fors. Lists of gratitude. Lists of to-dos. Lists of what you’re quitting.

There’s really no such thing as a bad list if the goal is to get to accountable action as quickly as possible.

And the added benefit of a list? The feeling of fulfillment that comes with crossing items off or the mere motion of acknowledgement of each line item.

Stay Positive & How Many Lists Can You Make Today?

The time for gratitude isn’t when everything is going right.

It’s when everything is going wrong.

The same can be said about tenacity and effort, too.

Stay Positive & No Waiting Necessary