Finding Altitude From Your Dramas

How To Maintain A Positive Attitude

The roller coaster of life can go up and down really fast. One moment you are on top of the world and the next it’s taken away. The key is to master your reaction to the ups and downs of life. You get to choose whether your failures defeat you, or whether you choose to turn the manure of your loss into the fertilizer for your growth. 

There are times you will have strong emotions, but do your emotions control your decisions? You can experience intense emotions, and at the same time know it is best not to act on them. In those instances you may need to create space. That might look like walking away from the situation until your frenzied storm of emotions subsides, so you can take a clearer course of action.

Having and acting on the self-awareness of knowing when you are not in a good space to make positive decisions is in itself a form of mastery.

I will give an example of this from my life to put some flesh and blood on it.