In the mental health community, there’s an ongoing debate about whether life coaching is a legitimate form of mental health care—or not. There’s been some negative press about life coaching scams, big name coaches who haven’t delivered what they promised, and the lines between therapeutic practices and coaching modalities becoming blurred.

As humans, we have the power to choose the way we think and feel about our circumstances. We can choose to be miserable. Or we can choose to see life as a gift. I’ve come to believe that this shift in attitude can go a long way toward changing you—without changing anything else at all.