Instead of meditating to clear your mind, focus on being present in the moment and fully aware of your experiences. Find a quiet comfortable place and spend some time focusing on your thoughts. This will sharpen your mentality and make you feel prepared, both of which can help you stay positive. Tell your mind to be still and do nothing other than think from moment to moment. Researchers have shown that mindfulness can reduce stress. This improves positive thinking by decreasing anxiety, low mood, and low energy associated with stress. Begin focusing on your breaths. Notice how you feel emotionally and physically as you inhale and exhale. Make yourself focus on what is going on around you. While taking thoughtful breaths, use your senses to notice what you see, hear, and feel in the room or space. Ask yourself if your body feels tired, relaxed, or stiff. Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. Deep breathing is a good way to revisit what consumed most of your thoughts and influenced your feelings throughout the day. Consider working with a therapist trained in CBT. This therapy can help you change your current ways of thinking. Since thoughts strongly influence your outlook, begin to change your negative thoughts into positive ones. To do this, you'll need to start noticing your thoughts. Stop yourself when you begin to think a negative thought and reframe it to become positive. For example, if you're stuck waiting for a bus, appreciate the time you have to unwind or have a conversation with someone else waiting for the bus. It can be helpful to write down these thoughts in order to help you reframe them. For example, you might write down a negative thought (like disliking driving in the rain) to something positive (like getting more practice driving in the rain). Part of being positive is feeling hopeful about the future. Setting goals is a good way to focus on the future. You'll also benefit from a boost in self-esteem when you achieve goals. To improve your chances of successfully meeting goals, make sure the goals are: Written down (Studies shows these are more detailed and likely to be met) Detailed Realistic Created with a timeframe or deadline in mind Worded positively While being positive all the time may sound like a great idea, you need to be realistic with yourself. There will be times in your life when you simply won't feel positive. In fact, situations may come up that make you legitimately sad or angry. However, you can use a positive outlook to deal with painful emotions and give yourself a sense of hope or acceptance. For example, if you just lost a loved pet, you'll probably feel sad or upset. You can still use positive thinking to remind yourself what you have to appreciate, like the time you had with your pet. Or, you can use positivity to remind yourself that this painful time will pass.

Summary: Do mindful meditation. Practice deep breathing. Do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Write down your goals. Have realistic expectations.

Sketch a circle that's as large as you want the lion's head to be. Then, draw a half-circle on the top of the circle off to 1 side. Make another half-circle on the opposite side. These will be the ears. Since you're making a cartoon, you can exaggerate the size of the lion's nose. Draw a horizontal line in the center of the circle and make it as long as you like. To make this into a triangular-shaped nose, draw a "V" coming down from the ends of the line. You can keep the triangle pointed or round the edges to make a smoother looking nose. Place your pen or pencil at the bottom point of the nose and draw a curved line like a half-circle at the bottom of the straight line. Make the half-circle curve up in both directions. The upward curves will make your lion look like it's smiling. To make your cartoon lion look whimsical, add 2 or 3 horizontal lines going away from each side of the face. You can make the whiskers as long as you like. If you're drawing a female lion, you might want to leave out the whiskers but make dots above the mouth. Decide how large you'd like the lion's eyes to be and make 2 circles halfway between the nose and top of the head. Leave a gap that's the size of 1 eye in between the eyes. Shade in most of the circles, but leave 2 tiny dots to represent the pupils. Make the eyes as expressive as you like. You could leave the circles very simple or sketch eyebrows and eyelashes, for instance. Create a scalloped edge around the lion's entire head. To make a large mane, leave a wide gap between the mane and the face. Skip this step if you're drawing a female lion. Sketch 2 lines from the bottom of the mane that curve down towards the center. Make 2 paws at the bottom and bring the lines back up to make the lion's legs. Then, make 2 taller legs that stick out from the sides of the lion so it looks like the lion is sitting on its haunches. Keep in mind that you won't see most of the lion's body in this position. To draw the paws, make 3 half-circles in a row. Draw a thin line coming from the lion's back leg and make it curve up. Sketch another parallel line to make the thin tail look 3-dimensional. Then, add a bushy circle at the end of the tail. If you prefer, draw the tail so it curves around and lies in front of the lion on the ground.

Summary: Draw a circle for the lion's head and make 2 half-circles for ears. Sketch a triangular nose in the middle of the face. Draw a curved mouth coming down from the nose. Make 3 long lines extend from the side of the face to create whiskers. Draw 2 circular eyes in the top half of the lion's head. Add a bushy mane around the head if you're drawing a male lion. Draw the lion's legs if you want to show it sitting on its haunches. Make a tail that sticks out from 1 side of the lion. Finished.

You should use a comfortable mat, a gym floor at your gymnastics school, or a floor with some cushion to do a somersault. If you use a hard surface, such as a wooden floor, then you're more likely to injure your head and neck.

Summary: Find a comfortable floor.

Bootleg or fake Yu Gi Oh! cards often have a different font than the real cards. Compare all of the text on the card to a real card to see if there are differences. The text on a fake card may also be a larger sized font than on a real card. Fake cards are often mistranslated or the text is poorly spelled. Check the effect text, or the text that describes the abilities and uses of the card, for any misspelled words or awkward syntax for signs that the card is fake. Check the way the text is arranged on the card as well. If it looks different than the authentic card, then the card is a counterfeit. Compare the effect text to an authentic version of the card to see if the text is different. Any changes in wording or phrasing means that the card is fake. Look up the card online so you can see the correct text for comparison. If the effect text is in italics on the authentic card but it isn't in the card you bought or plan to buy, then the card is fake. All genuine Yu Gi Oh! cards feature the names of the monster or ability in all caps. If any of the letters in the name are lowercase, then the card is a counterfeit. The effect text will have lower case letters, but the card name will not. The card names will always be inside of brackets with the words separated by a forward slash. Additionally, the attack (ATK) and defense (DEF) numbers are always separated by a forward slash. Check the spacing as well. Some fake cards will have an extra space before or after the forward slashes.
Summary: Look at the font of the text. See if there are spelling or grammatical errors in the effect text. Confirm that the effect text is correct. Check for lowercase letters in a card name. Inspect the brackets and slashes to make sure they're correct.