Im Not Bitter Im Better : My Life My Choices

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I am taking your words to heart and beginning again to look for an answer, a way to once again find hope and make a decision to keep on keeping on. Great article and one that rings true for me.

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I faced many challenges and social-economic disadvantages. I have to admit that it is not hard for me to focus on the positive and have always seen my cup as half full and I am naturally very optimistic.

Attitude has so much to do with how we deal with our circumstances and to a certain extent it even affects what happens in our life. So if we have a negative outlook on life and surround ourself with negative people you can count on having many negative expereinces. As a business coach you should always push your client towards the path of positivity. Kathy, congratulations on your identification of the traits that help folks become better not bitter.

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In fact, one of our major tasks growing up is to identify the character traits of the people we admire and then strive to acquire those traits in building our own character. I voted for your website during the July Coaching Mastery Contest because you are well grounded, with your focus on going after real values in the real world. Thank you for giving me a site I can admire and learn from! Thank, Terry, for your very kind words. I love that and hope I live up to it. The most important thing is to recognize your own contributions to a problem and willingness to change.

It takes efforts to change yourself but with positive attitude it can be done.. The challenges of life offers a lot of opportunities and the outcome depends how you handle and manage them. We must learn from life experiences, good or bad, and bring positive changes to get the best out of it.

Keep your life simple, easy with a positive attitude. Thank you for the advice.

Bitterness is taking over my life. I dont know how to be friends or make a friend. Its bard to trust and its hard to love when all you know is hurt. You seem to be telling yourself off.

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Perhaps you could or need to start being kinder to yourself? Perhaps you could start to say kind things to yourself and other people and let yourself know that you deserve to be treated kindly.

Hang around with good kind people if you can or do something kind for a stranger. Turn her from a bad friend into an ace friend and then start introducing her to strangers to show them how nice she can be. Let us know how it goes!

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I also would refrane from using traits. Remember that suffering makes community possible. Whatever that thing is, I can assure you that some human being in the history of the planet has survived that thing. You are now free to live life without feeling weighed down by fear. The tools of choice, celebration, community, and study are ways that I have learned to become a better mother to my daughter, Grace. Twenty years later, I see these to be the tangible manifestation of her minute life.

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Will You Get Bitter or Better?

Will You Get Bitter or Better? I am the mother of a dead child. Here is some of the hard work of healing: Choose to Heal When great tragedy comes to your life, you have just one decision to make that will determine the whole of your remaining life: Will you be bitter or better? Your future happiness depends on the choice you make.

The choice to get better means making the choice to move past your sorrow. Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. Any use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy linked below. A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only.

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Free E-newsletter Subscribe to Housecall Our general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics. Letting go of grudges and bitterness When someone you care about hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment and thoughts of revenge — or embrace forgiveness and move forward.

By Mayo Clinic Staff. References Rakel D, ed. Forgiveness can improve mental and physical health.

Akhtar S, et al. Understanding the relationship between state forgiveness and psychological wellbeing: Journal of Religion and Health. Ferrell B, et al. Nurses' responses to requests for forgiveness at the end of life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; Products and Services Newsletter: Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

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