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Turning negative events into positive experiences

Author : Douglas Titchmarsh

Turning negative events into positive experiences

Every day of our lives we are bombarded with negativity, whether
in our own personal space, or in the news media we receive.

Whatever the negative event, there's always a positive side to
be found, and often it's as simple as remembering to learn from
it. Sometimes, it's having the good sense to be able to step
back and see the benefits which may come from the negative event
you just experienced.

Here is my personal experience of an episode which could have
got me down, but instead I found the positive side, and quickly
moved on.

One of my websites was hacked, and consequently taken offline by
my hosting service. I was making a little extra cash from
Adsense ads on that site, and my immediate reaction to it's
untimely demise was anger and outrage. When my hosts weren't
sympathetic to my pleas of innocence, I was starting to despair.

Then I changed my way of viewing what was happening. Instead of
seeing it as a terrible inconvenience I started to see an
opportunity. I had considered finding a lower cost hosting
service for months but had remained where I was for convenience.
With all the great web hosting deals available, the host I was
using were no longer competitive, now I finally had another
reason to switch, and save some money, and as the site was
offline due to the hacking, it wasn't going to be affected much
more by the move.

So there was one good thing to come from an otherwise very
upsetting encounter, but while I was in a more positive mood,
something else came to my attention. The site had been left
largely unaltered for many months, while I worked on other
projects. As I was going to be uploading it all again, this
would be a perfect time to update and revamp the whole site and
trim some of the out of date pages. I had a new template I had
purchased for the site, so now was the ideal time to make the
switch to it.

The old site had also become a bit of a laboratory too, and had
bits of scripts,and parts of unfinished sites and experiments
left all over the place. Now all those would be gone without me
spending time to hunt them down and delete them all
individually. I could now upload only what I knew was being used.

Here I am now, and because of a negative event, the hacking of
my site, I have a faster lower cost, leaner website, and now
will be more vigilant as to what is happening on my sites in the
future.

>From now on, why don't you try looking for the positive side of
every situation. It will always be more productive than moping
around dwelling on the negative aspects. It doesn't take much,
just look for one good thing in all the bad you can see, and
soon all the possibilities will shine out like a beacon.


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