As Maya Angelou said, if you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

That's some of the best advice you're ever going to hear. At the end of the day, you should always be trying to change the things that you have, the ability to change.

There are inevitably going to be things that you can't change. But you're never helpless. You're never a victim. In that moment, you still have the unbelievable ability to choose to look at it in a new way, to choose to reframe it.

And in that reframing, you change everything. You don't just change your own neurochemistry. You're not just changing the way that you feel.

You're actually changing the way that you're going to approach the problem. Something that was moments before, something that seemed impossible, something that was breaking your will to continue to fight with a change in attitude becomes something completely different.

And as Hans Selie said, adopting the right attitude can turn a negative stress into a positive one.

And that game of mental jujitsu is what it's about. That game of flipping something on its head, of turning something around, of seeing an in a new way, so that you can act in a new way.

Is how you make forward progress. And understanding that, understanding the need to take control of your perceptions, understanding that, understanding your need to change your perspective.

That's how you begin to get ahead. Once you understand your perspective is a choice. It is not objective truth. Burn that into your mind. It is not objective truth. The world that you see around you is simply the perspective through which you see it.

All of life is a fun house mirror.

And when you acknowledge that, when you understand that you're looking at a distorted view of the way the world is, you realize that you can adopt a different distortion.

You can adopt a distortion that allows you to see things more clearly that allow you to see things in a way that empower you.

And that should always be the first step is figuring out not what is, not what you can change.

But instead, understanding what you need to change it to and understanding that that change comes from inside you.

It isn't a manifestation that you have to make in the outside world first. It's a change you have to make inside yourself.

It is a shift of perspective. It is simply stepping to the side of what you're used to and how you're used to seeing things and understanding that in reframing things you take that negative,

and turn it into something that builds you up. But you've got to choose. You've got to decide. You've got to believe that you can do it.

But once you believe that you can see things in any way that you need to reach your goals, your life will change forever.

Because you'll actually reach your goals.