How to develop a positive mental attitude

In current times, a positive mental attitude (PMA) is super hard to maintain, especially given that restrictions on most of our ‘normal’ daily lives are in place through nobodies fault.

BUT…a PMA is something which many people have struggled to get their arms around for one reason or another. For me, I guess I was brought up to just deal with the blows that life deals you. What I’m saying is, I seem to find it much easier to maintain a PMA than most, and I want to try explain how I (mostly) achieve it.

Firstly, I believe there are two attitudes people generally revert to when adversity strikes.

ONE: The ‘Why me?’ attitude.

The ‘why me?’ attitude is always the one a human-being defaults to, initially. Even me. The period of time a person is in this attitude state varies from person to person, and depends further on the adverse event that has taken place. A great example of this is the passing of a loved one. A period of mourning is to be expected and encouraged, where thoughts and feeling often swirl in a chaotic fashion. Plans that were in place that involved that person go out of the window, the realisation of never being able to make plans with that person again sets in, and you must come to terms with that in one way or another. The ‘why me?’ attitude in this instance will likely last a long…