Ron Gutman: Remind Yourself to Be Positive

I think that what I discovered in my own life, my own life is that it's very. It's possible for each and every one of you to actually build positivity into your life by just being conscious of it. Right? Live the moment. Right. And yes, you have this hairy and audacious goal that you want to accomplish, which can easily put you in a position easily put you in a position that you're going to be frustrated all the time, right? Because if you climb Everest and you keep thinking about the summit all the time, you are going to be frustrated most of the time because you're not on the summit yet, right? So if you keep thinking about the challenges and why you are not where you really want to be, you're going to spend your life being frustrated. On the other hand, there are a lot of great things that happen to us every single day that are a lot of fun. And if you live in the moment, and that's the biggest learning point that I can tell you about, my research on smiling is that if you live the moment and you surround yourself by things that remind you that life is great, you live in a place that has amazing weather. It's spring outside. It's like the flowers are unbelievably amazing. Look at them. I mean, they're gorgeous. It's sunny here every single day. You're surrounded by amazing people. You're doing something that you're really passionate about every single day. So life is awesome, even when it's challenging. And if you pause to remind yourself that every single day. And even better if you surround yourself with people that help remind you that every single day, the journey becomes so much better. And positivity is a set of mind. It's something that you can just decide to become positive. And being aware of it in the moment is something that will bring you back to it. And I use anchors. I call it my dandelion list. There are certain things in my environment that I kind of tag them as smile inducing. I just decided have a list that I decided that whenever I see one of these things, it will just remind me to smile. And I make sure that these are things that I encounter in my environment every now and then. And they're kind of like their reminders for me. Like, oh, I see this. Like, oh, that's fine. There's some people that make me smile and other things. So this is by little technique, but you can do it however you want to do it. But deciding to remain positive is extremely important when you're conquering these kind of challenges.