I haven’t always been a walking bucket of positivity. I certainty wasn’t taught the power of positive thinking as a child, or raised to accept the good, so by the time I was an adult, I had a negative slant on life. My parents spent a lot of time worrying.

At the age of 20, a man came into my life who was 10 years older than me and climbing the corporate ladder of success. We started spending time together, but he wasn’t going to take part in my negativity. Every time I said something negative, he would counteract with words of positivity. If I fretted over breaking a nail, he would say, “It’ll grow back stronger than before.” It was the first time in my life I’d heard such words.

He listened to tapes and CD’s by Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and Tony Robbins all of the time and it wasn’t long before I started listening to them with him. This changed my life, but it also changed me from how I was raised to be, to who I was made to be.

I’m grateful to have learned this at a young age as it’s became easier for negativity to creep in to our daily life. Recently, I found another trick that works really well and I want to share this with you today. It’s called, ‘Accept the good.’

We have off days where nothing seems to go right and it doesn’t take long before our circumstances start to shape our mood. Pause for a moment and look around. Maybe the sun is shining on a chilly day and we can feel the warmth of our home. I took a shower and had hot water and clean clothes to wear to my appointment with Dr. Jason. There’s so much good around us, but we have to pause long enough to see it and by acknowledging the mundane, we accept the good.

Our outlook on life becomes brighter and there’s a spring in our step as we feel lighter when we take a beat to accept the good.