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Life Happiness Begins with Perspective

Changing your outlook on life starts by simply shifting the way you see yourself and your circumstances. It’s easy to fall into negative thinking—about your appearance, abilities, or even your future—but often, how you see yourself isn’t how others see you. The real challenge is in choosing how you want to see the world… and yourself.


Change Your Outlook: Try a New Pair of Glasses

In primary school, we once made glasses out of paper and colorful plastic sheets. When we looked through our homemade lenses, the world turned green, pink, blue—depending on the color we picked. The teacher told us something I never forgot:

“The lenses you look through shape how you experience life.”

If you wear “anger lenses,” you’ll mostly see anger. If you wear “gratitude lenses,” you’ll start to notice more to be thankful for.

This is what your outlook is—your chosen perspective. And the great news is: you can change it.


Choose to See Things Differently

Changing your outlook doesn’t mean ignoring your problems. It means choosing how you interpret and respond to them.

Try this:

  • Focus on what’s working instead of what isn’t.

  • Replace judgment with curiosity.

  • When something bad happens, ask: What can I learn from this?

You can’t control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you view it.


Act on It: Be Proactive

You’ve probably heard the phrase: “Be proactive.” It means taking responsibility for your feelings and actions instead of waiting for someone else to fix things.

When you act instead of reacting, you build:

  • Confidence

  • Self-respect

  • A sense of control over your life

Every positive action is a brick in the foundation of your future.


Smile More—Even If You Don’t Feel Like It

This might sound silly, but smiling can actually change your mood. When you smile, your brain releases feel-good chemicals that can help ease tension and anxiety.

Can’t find a reason to smile? Make one. Watch something funny. Send a kind message. Do something small and joyful—it all adds up.


Remember: You Control the Lenses

You won’t always love what life hands you—but you do have a say in how you view and respond to it. Your happiness isn’t about perfect circumstances—it’s about how you choose to see the world, one moment at a time.

35 Comments

  1. Awww, these are such great tips. I like the one about being proactive. I need to do that more.

  2. What a great post. It really does go to show you that changing your perspective on something is so powerful!

  3. My kids can always change my outlook. I am so thankful they always can get a smile and a laugh out of me.

  4. These are great tips! I especially love the last one. When you run out of reasons to smile, just do it to make you feel good.

  5. I started saying this to myself a while ago. I struggled with seeing myself with a different pair of glasses and once I did, I felt so much better.

  6. That Joel Osteen quote is so real. Maintaining a positive outlook while surrounded by negativity is hard, so if you can help it, don’t do it! It can be so easy to just get mired in a situation, shrug and say “oh well.” It’s good to be reminded that we have agency over our lives.

  7. Another great post Patrice. By nature I’m think I’m pretty positive on my outlook on life but for the times when you’re tempted to be negative, surrounding yourself with positive people definitely helps

  8. I really love the idea of the glasses, such a great teaching moment. And since I homeschool, I just may do something similar with my kids. We always talk to them about being positive and making good choices.

  9. “But did you know that so often what you think of yourself is not what others see? And inadvertently you pass your own feelings off onto other people and the people you meet for the first time. ”

    This is so true and something so easy to forget when we’re feeling down about ourselves or our lives. Thanks for the reminder, Patrice.

    Great tips in this post!

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