How to stay Positive in Hard Times?

Life is a roller coaster. Sometimes it will take you to new heights and sometimes it will drag you to deep darkness. But that is what Life is all about. Happiness encircles positivity, good thoughts, good company. But staying positive in Hard Times is very difficult.

If you’re reading this, that means you have already choose positivity. And that is the first step. Now let me give you some of the ideas I nurtured to stay positive in Hard Times.

A) Always remember that if your happiness is not everlasting, so is your Hard times. It will also pass. Be strong and don’t run away from the situation you are facing. Face it with strong will power. Be always optimistic about Life and your Hard Times will pass.

“Life is 10% what happens to you & 90% how you react to it.”-Charles R.Swindoll.

B) Accept the situations as they are. If you are feeling bad emotionally about a situation, then feel bad. Cry out loud, if that relieves you. Bring out the pain from inside. And you will feel a lot more relax and good. Just try to flush it out from your system.

C) If anything bad happens to us, we get so overwhelmed with the situation and are so much emotionally charged up, that we forgot to access facts. Say for example, someone has lost his job for some reasons. Now he will get so much carried away with the situation that he will forget to see through things. And that is the very nature of human character. Now the facts to access in his situation is as he has lost his job, he need another job to earn his bread and butter. So he mustn’t brood over the situations thinking how to feed his family. Instead he should start looking for new jobs from the very next day and prepare a good resume for the interview.

D) Another thing to keep in mind always and especially in Hard Times that all people around us think differently . And there also people surrounding us who finds negativity in every things. They will always complain, find faults in people and all are devastating in their Lives. And the matter may be very irrelevant or trivial. For example, what good you can do by complaining about the weather. Try to ignore such company as much as you can. This is all the more important when your situations are not favorable. Always believes in you and try to find positivity in little things around you.

E)Think of other people’s trouble and evaluate your own situation. Many a times you will notice how small your problem actually is in comparison to them. When I feel bad or have a bad day, sometimes I compare my situations with the small child begging on the roadside or the person who came to my house the other day for collecting donations as his small hut was burned out. Then don’t know whether they will get something to eat today or where to get shelter for the family. I shiver to think about their future. Our Life, our situations are much more better than them. We are fortunate in having a decent living. At least by God’s grace we have food to eat and roof above our head. Thousands out there are not so lucky as we are.