Find the Positive

Ok, I started a new bible study this week with the book Unglued.  It's about not getting angry about things out of your control.  Even better would be to find the good in those situations, realize God is in control and all things are for my good.
I don't think of myself as a negative person.  That's not to say that I haven't been in the past but when I talk about things with people I make a point to talk about the good.  I have long believed that life is what you make of it and tried to live that motto.  It came to me last night during prayer however that my thoughts and perceptions are still failing miserable in the negative department.   These thoughts are not shared with people but I am ready to change those negative thoughts so that I can be a better person on the inside because I know my thoughts are reflected in my actions and attitude.  
I tend to think that, well we better not go there.  
Anywho my goal is to find the positive in the situation.    Like tonight when Lee was talking to the kids on the phone and they couldn't be still and talk toward the computer so Lee could hear them, I was frustrated.  The positive:  I got to get the dinner dishes done while they were talking to Daddy rather than later on, long after I am ready to be done with dinner dishes.