Last Updated on September 30, 2025

I came to realize that being positive is not just when your life is going well. You could be living on the street and be homeless. In that horrible, hopeless situation, you could still be positive and make the best of it.

You could be a millionaire, living on a yacht, and still be miserable and negative. It is not the outside conditions that shape you; it is how you view the conditions you are in.

We spend about 47% of our time inside our head, thinking, according to research where people were asked randomly throughout the day what they were doing.

So how do you make the best of every situation?
I was sitting next to an old lady when I noticed something different about her. I don’t know why, but I asked her, “How do you view the world?” She said she was an artist. She said there is an old lady walking down the street in the biggest ghetto, trying to make ends meet. There is something beautiful about that. There is something beautiful in every situation, she said. I asked, “When did you realize that?” She said she was always like that; that’s why she chose to be an artist.

That is how we should make the best of every situation. We should see the good in the worst situations—even homelessness, addiction, and even prison.

Because if we don’t, it will only get worse. That is the cure to a horrible life.