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The only way you can overcome problems of any sort is by applying your strengths more effectively.
focus on building children’s strengths and developing their optimism about their own abilities.
It is about building a life that is flourishing, where you are growing on a daily basis, developing a range of powerful and productive relationships, impacting on individuals, communities and organisations.
People thrive where they feel they have control over many aspects of their own lives.
your life is influenced as much by the way you pay attention and interpret and recall your experiences.
you do have a choice about how you view your life.
There’s also a well-known psychological puzzle where you look at an image and see a young woman or an old lady, as if you’re viewing a negative or positive image. You can’t see both faces at once. You can flip between the two images, but seeing the one ‘locks out’ the other. Similarly, seeing the negative in events stops you seeing the positive that may be there all along.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
‘for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’.
Recognise that there are good things in your life. Nurture the good things and make them grow.
