The life is just a matter of attitude

The life is just a matter of attitude

What about friends? How are you?
I landed and very happy to return to my blog and weekly column.
I confess that returning from Argentina, on the plane I met a very special person and when I heard her story, I thought .... This is about that I’ll write in my blog of January 2012....

Before I start it... I wish to all formal, & informal words: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!
Now, without further ado, I will tell you what inspired me the conversation with Candela on the plane:

“We can’t choose the cards, we’re dealt, we can only decide how to play them”, said Randy Pausch, professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, before a large crowd on September 18, 2007. According to university tradition, each year a teacher gives a lecture entitled, “ The Last Lecture” but Pausch surprised everyone with an unexpected announcement : he had six month to live. “It’s what is and we can’t change that”, he remarked, facing the reality with an enviable sense of humor.

That last lecture was called, “How to truly fulfill the dreams of your childhood”, a lesson on life and death, wich went viral, becoming a worldwide phenomenon. More than three millon people watched Pausch’s speech on You Tube. With the help of The Wall Street Journal reporter, Jeff Zaslow, a book by the same name was published a few months later. Today, ii has become a bestseller , been translated into 32 languages and sold more than five millon copies. With his contagious optimism, Pausch tried everything to stop cancer. He underwent aggressive surgery and experimental chemotherapy, but the disease ran its course and ten month after his announcement, he died in his home in Virginia at the age of 47. More thean three years after his death, he is still considered by The Times as one of the hundred most influential people.

“If we believe that every day of our life is an adventure that calls to us, feeling like fear won’t paralyze us, pain won’t overwhelm us and frustration will become a challenge to try again to get what we want”, says psychologist Candela.
In the last five years, a new branch a psychoanalysis has been conceived in Spain positive psychology. Through scientific research this science seeks to understand the processes that underlie the positive qualities of human emotions, wich have long been ignored by mainstream psychology.

This new branch not only “seeks to help solve the problems of mental health, but also to achieve a better quality of life and welfare”.

Within positive psychology, the topic of optimism has attracted interest among researcher’s who define it as “a dispositional characteristics of personality that mediates between external events and personal interpretations of them”. In short, it is a tendency to believe that the future will be favorable. The main difference between optimistic and pessimistic attitudes is just the way we see things.
Discovering disadvantages and difficulties causes apathy and discouragement. In contrast , optimism is making the same effort to find solutions, advantages and possibilities. According to statistics, the most optimistic people tend to have better mood, and more perseverance are more successful and also have better physical health.

Winston Churchill said, “”The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”.

It’s just a mather of attitude.

And so ended my weekly column and I wish you: a year full of positive attitude, optimism and above all lots of smiles where others put tears.

A coach-kiss, with all the strength and energy needed to begin a year filled with adventures and surprises.

Lorena