Everything we do in life is defined by our thinking. So how much time are we dedicated to evaluating our own ways of thinking? Since that insightful conversation, I've actually caught myself several times starting to go to the dark side and stopping myself dead in my thought tracks. Rather than allowing the negative thinking to take over, I simply stop, take a deep breath and give some serious consideration to some other ways of looking at things. I literally coach and encourage myself to go with the more positive alternative, and guess it works. This little mental reset exercise really works.

People often say to me they admire the wide variety of people I know and the friendships I've developed over the years. I always use those conversations as an opportunity to remind people (and I guess you too since you're reading this now) they too can have the same kind of friendships and experiences if they are willing to just try to have them.