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Through positive thinking and commitment, you can move from one health accomplishment to another, using your successes as steppingstones. I recently suffered a fractured femur leaving me unable to put any weight on my right leg for two months.  When the physician gave me the “OK,” I could not walk more than 3 minutes on a walker without being exhausted.

I learned firsthand that you are only a few thoughts away from feeling better.  The more I focused on the positive things in my life, the easier it was for me to cope with what became a two-year recuperation/healing process.

Instead of thinking, you can only walk for three minutes—you can embrace the possibility that tomorrow, maybe you will walk for four minutes.  I treated every improvement as a moment to celebrate and to be grateful for my progress (as small as those steps were). This positive thinking transformed my mood, my outlook and my progress.

“Gratitude serves as a corrective,” says Emmons, the author of the book Gratitude Works! Being grateful for my physical therapist and being grateful for the good things flowing to me—helped me get through a painful and tedious healing process.