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Embrace Probortunities

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

Developing a positive attitude toward problems can really help you to recover more quickly from life’s obstacles and improve your resilience. You can learn to respond to problems with enthusiasm and eagerness, rising to the challenge to show your stuff and actually amaze yourself with some of the results you can achieve! It is very much about how you view each situation.

I read something once that suggested that problems are opportunities with thorns on, which I thought was a rather good description. Let’s face it, we don’t exactly wake up in the morning hoping that we will experience problems. However, it is pretty ...

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