How to Develop Positive Attitude In A Difficult Situation

Difficult or challenging moments are inevitable in life. One way or another we’ll experience them. But when we are in such situations, how do we develop positive attitude? How do we make sure the situations don’t overwhelm or overpower us?

Some years ago, someone was trained as a medical doctor in Nigeria. He and his colleagues wanted to practice abroad in countries like the US, UK or Canada where salaries and living conditions are good. But his colleagues were chosen except him. He only had the option of practicing in Saudi Arabia. It was like a blow on his face, considering his qualifications and intellectual capacity. 

At that time, nobody would have wanted to work in Saudi Arabia considering the fact that the country had no potential or prospect for medical practice. It was difficult making decision to go there. But he eventually went. Not long after, the Saudi government decided to buy him over, willing to take care of everything that concerns him. While other doctors were receiving regular salaries, he was receiving four to five times their salaries. It was as though fortunes have knocked at his door. 

His colleagues who were working in better countries didn’t have the opportunities he had. They wondered how things could turned around for him so dramatically. He was receiving everything in multiple folds. The Saudi government takes care of his travelings, vacations and whatever project he’s working on. He was in no time became a multimillionaire and was swimming in riches. Looking back, he realized he had made the right decision despite the fact that it wasn’t easy at the beginning. His colleagues thought they had made a better choice, but when they saw how his life turned out, they wished they had made the same decision.

While going through challenges, it’s not always easy making decisions and even seeing better future ahead. But just the courage to keep moving will take us to the end of the tunnel and make us see a new light. We will experience a better life when we keep moving.

Just in moments when everything looks so hopeless and helpless, let’s remember one thing, God will always make a way. No matter how hopeless or helpless the situation is, God will always make a way and turns things in our favor.

Joseph, despite all he went through, didn’t lose hope of a better future. He was sold into a strange land by his blood brothers, lied against by his master’s wife, and forgotten by someone he helped. But in all of these, he didn’t lose hope. He knew one day, the Lord would remember him and bring him out of his predicament.

Hearing or reading the stories of successful people in life has always taught me one important lesson, that they all at one time went through difficulties and challenges in their lives, but they summoned courage to overcome them. They kept moving despite all their fears and worries about the future. They knew one day, the light would break into their darkness and things would turn around. And having gone through what they went through, they have become people of wisdom and strength. They have developed their inner capacities to help others and unleash their gifts.

Dear friends, I encourage you that in whatever you are going through right now, please don’t lose hope. Don’t lose faith. In as much as you have life, there is hope, because life keeps hope alive. The only thing you need to sustain your hope is the gift of life that is giving to you. Don’t stop hoping and believing God, that if he has done it for others, he will surely do it for you, and you would have a great testimony. I celebrate you. Have a blessed Sunday.