ABSTRACT
The route to becoming a positive person and developing the skills of encouragement must first go through the process of personal development and self-encouragement. Self-help books often talk about ways to change other people. This chapter discusses a self-sufficient approach, "I Light Up My Life", to become the positive person. This approach says that the responsibility for lighting up one's life belongs to him/her and not others. The positive person has self-esteem. One of the ways to both access and build his/her self-esteem is to take an inventory of his/her strengths, assets, resources, and potential. The chapter lists questions that will help him/her to begin his/her self-inventory. A natural high helps one to become a positive person. Getting high has become associated with using various substances such as alcohol, drugs, or prescribed medications. Personal power, excitement, thrills, conquests, and manipulation are also sources of getting high.
