You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.
Sometimes having a positive attitude seems impossible, given the circumstances in life. Statistically speaking, a person born in Yazoo City, Mississippi during the heart of the Great Depression, shouldn’t experience unprecedented success. Yet Zig Ziglar defied this odd and he claims it was his attitude that made all the difference: https://www.ziglar.com/product/zig-autobiography