Daily Gratitude: This might give you some incentive to embrace the difficult times. Consider them a training camp to teach you how to handle the bad times when they come.

Try to develop this sort of mindset in addition to practicing looking for the good in every single event that happens in your life.

Make your life like looking for Easter eggs. The kids know there are a lot of “goodies” (eggs) hidden out there and they know that it’s going to be fun finding them. They don’t start out on Easter Sunday thinking “damn this is going to be hard. Is it going to be worth it? I mean who cares – they’re just eggs. What if I don’t find any? People will laugh at me and I’ll cry. I’m just going to sit this one out.” Or something similar.

No, they start the day just like Christmas with excitement about the unknown. They want to explore and see what they can find. Enthusiasm abounds.

If your day isn’t outstanding and maybe you’re a bit down, make a game (or a challenge) out of finding the good that may be hidden from obvious sight.

Do this repeatedly and it will become a habit. Then when the bad things happen, you won’t even have to give it a second thought- you’ll just immediately begin looking for the good. Next thing you know, the bad won’t seem so bad.