A Positive Attitude Can Change Things

It is certainly not a matter of ignoring the reality of the facts, or of saying that everything will turn out all right or all right, or that what happened is not so terrible after all, when in fact it is. It is not about turning something bad into something very good, it is not about facing everything with a smile on your lips, or simply saying that better days will come. It is not about pretending, it is not about pretending to accept a terrible situation through positive affirmations, no, no, no, no.

A positive mental attitude is actually about reinforcing the belief that you can decide how to react to certain difficult situations for your own benefit. It's never about lying to yourself, it's about empowering yourself. Like all great achievements in life, there is always a first step. Without this fundamental first step, nothing else can happen. I'm talking here about your attitude towards something, something you want better, something you are facing, something you want to achieve, something you fear. The belief that you can or cannot will influence everything that follows.

Most of the events in our life are out of our control, external to our will and desires. We have no control over a natural disaster, a traffic accident, a sudden illness, an armed robbery, but we can have control over how we cope with the situation in the moment and after the acute phase. It depends on us what attitude we have after a certain event that happened to us. It depends on how