When you become self-aware of how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your life you can then choose to expand your mindset to including new possibilities and creative responses. In order to cope well with difficult situations/times you need to build up a variety of different tools and techniques to manage them well.
Answer the following questions to help expand your mindset and gain a different perspective.
What is something that has been recently challenging for you?
Were you able to create a win/win solution for yourself and everyone involved?
If you couldn’t, what were the difficulties/challenges?
If you did create a win/win situation, how did you get there?
What did you to do to be successful in this situation?
What creative responses to challenges do you have in your personal ‘toolbox’?
How do these creative responses help you deal with challenging times?
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