If you write down everything that made you happy throughout your day, on your bad days, you’ll start to notice the good parts more easily.

Think about it.

If you have 4 great days in a row, and you notice how much it meant to you that your friend asked how your day went, when that bad day comes, and your friend still reaches out to you… You’ll feel that happy moment.

Negative thoughts are inevitable. Don’t bother getting rid of them. Instead, try to reframe them.

The best example is to look at failures as learning opportunities. You may not have succeeded this time, but you are now equipped with the knowledge or skills to succeed the next time.

Oftentimes, failures only look like failures in the timeframe you’re stuck in.

You are a combination of the 5 people you spend the most time with. This is a truth as old as time, and it continues to prove itself so.

That’s why you need to surround yourself with optimistic people. This is how you increase your happiness and become that 80% optimistic person.

If you’re surrounded by negative people, you will fuel each other when something bad happens.

If you are surrounded by optimistic people, you will make each other happier anytime anything happens.

It’s awesome if you want to go to work 8 hours, come home and study 8 more every day for a few years. 

At the same time, it’s also okay if, once in a while, you turn on some garbage TV shows on Netflix and numb your brain with stupidity briefly.

In fact, most people wish you well.

Your smile will make them smile, and if they saw you win the lottery, they’d get excited too.

And I guarantee you at least one person would help you up if you tripped and hurt yourself.