Choose Your Attitude

You cannot choose every situation. You can often choose how you respond to it.

1. Separate the Situation From Your Response

Something can be disappointing, unfair, annoying, or difficult without you pretending it is fine.

“I do not like this, and I still get to choose my next move.”

2. Notice What Your Attitude Is Doing

• Is it helping me solve the problem?
• Is it making the situation harder?
• Is it affecting other people?
• Am I focusing only on what I cannot control?

3. Choose a More Useful Response

You do not have to choose “happy.” Try useful: curious, calm, determined, respectful, patient, honest, or willing to try.

Try It

Your group gets an assignment you did not want. You are disappointed. What can you honestly feel while still choosing a response that helps the group move forward?

💡 Funky Tip

A good attitude is not fake positivity. It is responding in a way that gives you and the people around you a better chance to move forward.

I am smart.

Smart choices include noticing when your own response is becoming part of the problem.

🎒 Take It With You

Feel what you feel. Then choose what you do next.