Good morning and welcome to the Increase Reimpact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,885. Today we're talking about positivity and there are a lot of

definitions out there, but I would love to share with you today my working

definition of positivity. Emphasis on the word working definition that I often

add to or take away from different words depending on how things evolve, but

here's my current working definition. Positivity is not about slapping the

smile on your face, ignoring the reality of your situation and assuming that

everything is always awesome. Positivity is the ability to stare the brutal facts

in the face and then focus on what you're going to do about it. It's striving to

grow and improve despite how challenging your current situation is. It's easy to

be positive when things are going well. It's crucial to be positive when things

aren't going well. I think a lot of people misinterpret

positivity for just this polyanna sunshine and rainbows. Everything is great,

which is not true. I think there are people out there who don't think they're

positive because they're not always smiling and that's not necessarily the

case. Positivity is a mindset. It's being able to stare at the difficulty of

your situation. It's okay to say your situation is difficult. It's okay to be

frustrated with things that are outside of your control. It's okay to want the

storm that you're going through to end. It's painful. It's created anger

inside some of you. It is cause some of you tears, agony, just regret in some

cases. Now what positivity is, it's accepting those feelings and then asking

yourself the question, what am I going to do about it? What can I control? And then

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