No matter how bad things get with your life, try and take the time to realize how luck you trully are. Make a list even. For instance there are people living in 3rd world countries who have no clean water to drink. Where they get their water can be miles away and what they get is dirty and can give them all sorts of diseases.

Then the have problems with their crops failing if there isn't enough rain. They might be able to get help from a charity or the UN but it's not likely to be enough to keep them truly healthy. It also be pretty boring to eat these basic foods every day.

I'm also a firm believer in what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I used to think that this was rubbish and that people were just saying it to convince themselves it's true. In a number of cases when something bad has happened to me I almost expect it. I'm not saying that in a pessimistic way, I'm just saying that it no longer knocks me over quite as much.

Before if I got some sort of bad news I'd feel sick the stomach with stress. Now I just say to myself "OK, so what needs to be done then?" I then just go away and do it almost as if I were a machine.
Keywords: problems, luck, life