Keep a positive attitude!!

You should say thank you to every person who has ever told you you can’t.

Understand that it is no longer necessary to try to impress anyone. If they like you the way you are, good. If they don’t, it is their loss.

Remember: you can’t compare yourself to the next person, because there is no competition. You are one of a kind, and that’s real.

Don’t pretend to be someone you are not. You might not be proud of some things you have done in the past, but you should be proud of who you are today.

Comparison is a rigged game

I want to be specific about why comparison hurts so much, because “don’t compare yourself” is advice everybody has heard and nobody can follow.

The reason it never works is that you compare your inside to their outside. You know your own doubts, your bad mornings, the thing you are quietly worried about. Of them you know only the visible summary - the announcement, the photograph, the good news.

You are not comparing two people. You are comparing a full internal record against a highlights reel, and there is no version of that where you come out ahead.

Once you see the trick, the comparison loses most of its authority. Not all of it. But enough.

Understand one thing: there can be no positive result from a negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.

The difference is smaller than you think

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is often a small difference in attitude. A positive one can carry you over the greatest obstacles; a slightly negative one can quietly stop your dreams from ever becoming real.

So if you want to achieve something, try changing your attitude towards the goal, and watch the path clear.

The right attitude takes you places. The wrong one leaves you in the dumps.

Sometimes holding the right attitude is not easy. In those times, a little inspiration is all you need.

The road to success has never been easy. But with the right attitude, no one can stop you from getting there and making it big.

A good attitude is what makes a person happy and successful. So what you really need for a life filled with joy is a good and positive attitude.

Life can be tough at times. What gets you through and out the other side as a winner is a never-say-die attitude.

Attitude is a habit, not a personality

If you want to be a winner throughout your life, changing your perceptions and steering them in the right direction is all you need.

And I do mean steering, repeatedly, rather than having. People talk about attitude as though it were a fixed trait you either got or didn’t. In practice it is much more like posture. Nobody stands up straight permanently. You notice you have slumped, you correct it, and an hour later you correct it again.

Nobody wakes up with the right attitude installed. They just get faster at noticing when it has slipped and quicker at putting it back.

Someone once said: “The difference between can and cannot is only three letters. Three letters that can shape your life’s direction.” Learn from it and never give up.

Remember: no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A bad attitude can genuinely block love, blessings and opportunity from finding you. So don’t be the reason you don’t succeed.

The thank you is not sarcasm

One last note on the opening line, because people usually read it as sarcasm.

I mean it plainly. The people who told you that you couldn’t did you a genuine service, though not the one they intended. They handed you an early, cheap demonstration that other people’s assessments of you are guesses - often confident, often wrong, and made with almost no information about what you are actually capable of.

Learning that at twenty saves you a great deal of unnecessary deference for the rest of your life.

-Kashish