Do you see problems as a negative?

You may have gathered I haven’t made a blog posting recently and that’s because I have had a few technical problems. It happens to even the best of us. None of us are immune to adversity, but even then we still have a choice. We can either accept what’s happening as part of the process or become discouraged.

I know for me, without being able to rely on my trusty computer, twice within the space of a fortnight I experienced a sense of loss of control. How was I going to manage my emails? How would I be able to send out that important follow up message? How could I arrange this that and the other when all the information I needed was on that computer? Well the thing is we do survive, we do get through periods of difficulty however difficult they feel at the time.

The trick I think is to bounce back quickly, take responsibility rather than blame others and maintain your self belief. The sooner you can learn to do this and accept that problems or events in your life are actually happening to help guide us, bring us more or new opportunities to learn and adjust our thinking the sooner we will be back on track.

Norman Vincent Peale once said, “There is only one group of people that don’t have problems’ – and they are all dead.”