Tough times don’t require fake positivity. They require realistic optimism, a steady, usable focus that helps you reduce stress and take the next step without pretending everything is fine.

In How to Stay Positive in Tough Times, executive mentor and research translator Morgan Hale gives you a practical resilience runbook built for real life: career pressure, family stress, uncertainty, loss, and the daily grind of “too much at once.”

You’ll learn how to stabilize your mood, protect your attention, and keep moving forward with hope, using simple systems you can run on your worst weeks.

Inside, you’ll build:

• A 5-minute daily practice to reset your state (even on busy nights)
• Energy floors (Sleep, Movement, Sunlight, Hydration) so optimism is biologically possible
• A rapid protocol for emotion spikes (without suppressing feelings)
• Solution focus under stress (controllables now) using Now/Next/Not-Now
• Gratitude that changes attention, not reality, so you stay grounded
• Input hygiene to reduce noise, doomscrolling, and mood whiplash
• Boundaries that protect energy without burning bridges
• A weekly Mood Review and Consistency Scoreboard (70–85% beats perfection)
• A complete 30-day optimism plan that survives Yellow and Red days

This isn’t therapy. It’s a practical operating system:
Clarity. Capacity. Cadence.
So you can stay steady, reduce stress, and move forward, one useful step at a time.