How do you try to keep positive in your daily life?

I prefer to be realistic. It's difficult to be positive in this day and age and it seems so phony to pretend life is good. I prefer to pay attention and not get attached to my thoughts and I just let them go by. I suppose that is a positive act. Barbara Ehrenreich, who wrote Nickel and Dimed, has a great book titled Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009).