Your positive thinking is the result of your success and happiness, not the cause of them.

Based upon such perspective or understanding, you don’t have to actively be negative.

It just means you’re swimming against the tide, or trying to buy the cart before the horse.

You have to try to be positive as much as possible, with disregard to your circumstances.

But you being unable to stay positive as much as you normally could is not always due to a bad mindset. It’s almost always because of being stuck in a bad environment.

This is way more important than you think.