Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future

A positive mental attitude is something I’ve learned to practice in recovery.

Our perspective on any given situation is a choice, we can choose to have a positive or negative outlook. Glass half full means there's always a pro to the situation, we are just accustomed to seeing only the cons.

Life will throw at us a plethora of roadblocks, unfortunate events, and crises.
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One of the first things I did in early recovery was audit my circle.

I took a deep dive on who I surrounded myself with, who I interacted and hung out with the most. I quickly realized that I did not positively benefit most of my inner circle. Interacting with me wasn’t helping them become better physically, financially, or spiritually. The hardest decision in early recovery for me was dropping my friends. I made the decision to drop 95% of them, ceasing communication. I intentionally did that so I could obsessively focus on improving myself until I was at a level where interacting with me WOULD help others become better

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After 2 years of self improvement I achieved just that.

I was in the best shape of my life, made more money than a doctor, and could articulate and most importantly control my emotions better

than ever before. When I went back to those friends I realized that they never benefited me in the first place, they weren’t aspiring to become anything more than average. Most of them were still in the throes of addiction and had no desire to get clean

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During those 2 years of self improvement is where I cemented the glass-half-full mentality. That’s what got me through those times. In early recovery we often feel alone, scared, bored, and many other emotions that can negatively affect our success.

It took a positive mental attitude to see the positives in every situation, even being alone

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Through the years as I developed, I attracted other like minded individuals who were on a similar path, and my circle grew. It's more abundant than ever before. Full of people who are growth minded, disciplined, committed high achievers.
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Patience is a virtue that can never be overlooked.

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I challenge you to look for the positivity in the situation,

even if the only positive thing is that you learned how not to do something. That's an incredible feat in itself, because when we learn we grow, and when we grow we succeed.

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Sometimes it takes several tries to get something right,

each step along the way is in the right direction, we just don’t know it yet ❤️