Essays on Positive Attitude

Adopting the right attitude can turn negative stress into positive stress. In life there will always be things we cannot control. You can choose to feel happy, sad, angry, or stressed about the certain situation or turn it around and focus on the positive. You can choose to be stuck in a bad situation or…

In today’s world, life expectancy seems to be increasing for Americans. Majority of the older population have progressive and incurable diseases in spite of the immense advances in health care. The greatest factor of overcoming these illnesses and losses is, a positive attitude. “Behavior is guided by evaluation. Positive evaluations move people to obtain positive…

As you may already know, reinforcement and punishment are a form of operant conditioning, reinforcement referring to reinforcer uses to increase the rate of a behavior; meanwhile, punishment decrease the rate of a behavior. It could also be used to continue new skills set or maintaining behavior overtime. All in all, both reinforcement and punishment…

Finding a way to make your life more meaningful can be a very tricky process. This process can be even more tricky or amplified if you don’t really know what makes life meaningful. More importantly, if you don’t know what makes life more meaningful and unique for you in your own way, it would seem…

When listening to a song, rarely does the listener closely analyze the lyrics to find out the meaning of the song. Song lyrics are written in a way that purposefully says what an artists wants in an indirect way. Other genres though, may have a different approach to saying what they mean. For example, a…

Many people ( including me) are against reading. Many think it is boring and a waste of time and much rather do something else. Others who are against reading look at the sight of a book and instantly think negative thoughts, like, ‘ It is for nerds’ or ‘ It isn’t going to make you…

In A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, by Robert Gates, the author uses past experiences as the former Secretary of Defense and other leadership roles to create the universal idea that leaders who focus on the ‘develops’ component of the Army Core Competencies, will be better…

There are many admirable characters in books. Each of them have unique qualities to them. I have lots of favorites, but my favorite is Aven from the novel Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. Although born armless, Aven is funny, capable, and undaunted in the face of adversity. She always has a positive…