On Being Positive

"Being positive is essential to success.
You can be extremely hard-working,
but if you're not positive, you're inhibiting your chance at success.

You can program yourself to be positive
just as you establish an exercise routine
or a weight-loss program or anything else in your life
that you are trying to improve.

If over a period of time you make a concerted effort
to look at things in a more positive, upbeat manner,
you will begin to see how it affects people's attitudes about you.

Everyone likes being around positive, upbeat people.
The feel lifted by them, and they feed off their energy.

The key is to stay positive in tough times.
The more trying the times, the more positive you have to be.

We must learn how to maximize the good times
and shrink the bad times down
as small as we can possibly make them.

We must also learn how to live in and enjoy the present,
free from the failures of the past
and the anxieties of the future."

Author: Rick Pitino