If a difficult issue is staring you straight in the face, it is either a problem or an opportunity; there are no other possibilities, and the sole determinant of the answer is your attitude. Virtually every issue is invariably malleable, and with a good hammer and chisel paired with a generous helping of fortitude you can almost always sculpt a workable—Dare I say favorable?—solution out of any perceived dilemma. Of course, if you’re cursed with a chronic defeatist attitude, you’ll instinctively look for a sinister funnel cloud rather than a majestic rainbow and wind up beating a premature hasty retreat in the face of imagined danger. The outcome of all such situations is wholly dependent upon your attitude but, then again, so too can be said about one’s overall outlook on life.
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