You'll face illness and injury.
You'll face strained relationships.
You'll face financial, professional, and political difficulty.
Sometimes, you can improve or fix the situation.
Often, it's entirely out of your hands.
When you can't change your situation, change yourself.
How can you shift your perspective?
To look ahead, not behind?
To choose hope over rumination?
To practice gratitude however you can?
Your mindset is, at times, all you can affect.
Frequently overlooked, it can be your most powerful tool.
It may not sound like much.
It’s better than doing nothing.
Better than resigning your quality of life to external factors.
Than letting what’s around you dictate what’s within you.
This isn’t to say your circumstances don’t matter.
Or that you shouldn’t work to improve them.
Only that you may not always have that option.
You always have the option of changing yourself.
The two may go hand-in-hand.
Changing yourself often changes your situation.
If not, it still presents an opportunity.
An opportunity to learn.
An opportunity to grow.
An opportunity to become a more resilient, more capable you.
Moving toward your best life.
You are worthy of that life.
You’ve got this.
