I am the type of person who used to have a very negative attitude to most aspects of life. I am not alone in thinking this way as most of the people I meet seem to be constantly moaning about different things and basically feeling sorry for themselves. This article looks at the reasons and benefits of having a more positive outlook on life.

About ten years ago I decided that I needed to have a change of approach. I wanted to be a happy and care-free person and was fed up of always being stressed and worrying about the future. To achieve this I started to read many self-help, confidence type books and websites.

There was a regular message which came from this literature which was to think more positive and to believe in your ability to succeed in whatever you attempt to do.

This is easy to write or say, but in reality it is difficult to implement in practice. I did give it a go but in reality I had a lack of belief in the whole thing. I would go into a task thinking, I can do this, but it would still end up in failure.

For whatever reason I was unable to work out where I was going wrong - it was time to return to the books in a quest to educate myself further. I have to say that this was very pleasing progress as this was a new topic of knowledge for me to learn which is of much importance and is something that I had missed at the outset. What I had to do was to take a positive out of whatever happens to me, even if this is learning from my failings.

I am not personally involved within this industry; I am in fact working on various projects to do with selling composite doors, offering cheap mobile calls and running stammering help courses.

Something which happened to my family just a number of weeks ago is a perfect example of just how and when one can benefit from thinking positively. My nan has recently passed away, she was eighty-eight. I used to visit her at least once a week at the flat where she lived. She was the most lovely, caring and warm person who always spoke her mind with honesty. Around two months before she died she told me that she was very tired and that she no longer wanted to be on this planet.

I was quite shocked by her admission and asked her what was wrong. She stated that she had nothing to look forward to and that she did not want to reach a point where she could no longer bath herself etc. She continued that she hoped that I would not grieve for to long when she did die and that she wanted me to be happy for her.

This was quite upsetting for me to hear but at least she was being honest of course. Around seven to eight weeks later I received a telephone call from my father. He was rather distraught and stated that my nan, his mother, had died during the night.

Despite what my nan had said I did become quite down and the realisation that I would never see her again was something that hurt big time. I then thought about what she had said and looked up to the sky and gave my nan a smile and a message, I love you.

I thought positive about the whole event and was actually happy for her. I hope that one day we will meet again.

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