How to look at things in a positive way?

Look at things in a practical way—forbid those bitter self-reproaches, that intense remorse, that personal loathing of self because it fails so ignominiously to rise above its environment. Extricate yourself from that, and disown the notion that the distance between you and Christ is so great that it can never be bridged—that it is no use continuing the task, no use trying to accomplish what is foreshadowed to failure.