<p>A staggering find by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsdepression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10% of Americans experiences depression</a>. Life isn&#8217;t easy and when you’re stuck grinding out your mortgage or paying off student loans and other debts, it becomes even less appealing. <a title="7 Simple Ways to Stay Positive" href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/12/7-simple-ways-to-stay-positive/">Keeping your thoughts positive</a> and being happy about <i>life</i> is imperative.</p>
<p>I remember back when I was in my early-20s and received my first job out of college. The excitement couldn&#8217;t be contained and I remember thinking to myself, <i>I finally did it</i>! All those years of schooling, late night studying, and spending frugally – I was finally on my way to becoming a financially independent adult. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/05/staying-positive-and-keeping-on-the-upswing/" title="Permanent Link: Staying Positive and Keeping on the Upswing" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2215,"date":"2014-05-15T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:46:45","slug":"staying-positive-and-keeping-on-the-upswing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/staying-positive-and-keeping-on-the-upswing\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Positive and Keeping on the Upswing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A staggering find by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/features\/dsdepression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10% of Americans experiences depression<\/a>. Life isn&#8217;t easy and when you\u2019re stuck grinding out your mortgage or paying off student loans and other debts, it becomes even less appealing. <a title=\"7 Simple Ways to Stay Positive\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/12\/7-simple-ways-to-stay-positive\/\">Keeping your thoughts positive<\/a> and being happy about <i>life<\/i> is imperative.<\/p>\n<p>I remember back when I was in my early-20s and received my first job out of college. The excitement couldn&#8217;t be contained and I remember thinking to myself, <i>I finally did it<\/i>! All those years of schooling, late night studying, and spending frugally \u2013 I was finally on my way to becoming a financially independent adult. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/staying-positive-and-keeping-on-the-upswing\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Staying Positive and Keeping on the Upswing\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}