Facing any obstacle with a positive attitude helps us get up faster after a fall. We tend to deal with situations better when we know that the end will be good and worthy and that we can do our part in what it is that we need to deal with in life and achieve.

A smile goes a long way and the good cheerful feeling that goes with the smile is contagious and will be passed onto other people around us. We humans have the ability to deal with any situation that happens - many of us just are not prepared to try harder, or want to do better. Some of us believe that we are unworthy or not capable, but we are worthy and are capable with time and practice.

Re-educating the mind with positive and happy conversation is a winner. Telling yourself all the time that you are good and healthy. Pray for guidance and help to do things. Keep the negative thoughts in your head at bay - every time a negative thought hits your mind make it a habit to crunch it down fast, push it aside.

Have you been in a room with people who all stand around claiming that the job at hand cannot be done for this or that reason and then someone walks into the room full of enthusiasm and keen to get the job done and this persons attitude and enthusiasm will infect all the people and everyone flies ahead and does what is needed. I have seen this a few times and it is impressive. If parents do this with their children and pitch in and help it really helps give the children enthusiasm.

A good attitude to anything, will lift people up physically and spiritually. Practice seeing life as a worthy adventure, something worth being a part of. You can find somewhere where you will be useful, we all can do something, somewhere to help out. This is a big world and there are many opportunities to be found. I am not talking about getting a job, I mean helping people with your heart, for free, to encourage and help people lives - God's worthy work from the heart and soul.

Feeling positive means we need to be optimistic about the future. Feeling that the future is bad will only keep the future outlook in our mind negative - how could a person say that everything is alright when they only see misery in the future! So we need to start plans in our mind of what we want to do sometime in the future - these are things that we will look forward to doing for ourself and for other people, animals and the world.

2013 could be a plan in itself as a year that you will want to try new things, be with new people, try to grow more spiritually, get more exercise, go for relaxing walks. Being positive needs positive people around us - people who think like us. Being positive is not chanting that you will be happy each morning, it is a feeling, and a feeling that will grow with true hope and a will to be part of goodwill in the world.!