Discover the different components to develop a positive attitude to help you face life situations successfully to decrease your stress.

1. DEVELOP A
POSITIVE
ATTITUDE
How to Control Your Stress

2.  Make sure you have a positive attitude when
tough situations occur.
 A positive attitude will help you see that
challenges, obstacles and setbacks are not
negative experiences but opportunities for
you to grow and understand yourself.

3.  Sleep well. Getting enough sleep every night will give you
energy to start the day without feeling cranky and irritated.
A sleep also helps you to make quicker and better decisions.
 Eat breakfast. Breakfast provides you with physical and
mental energy and helps you to concentrate better and stay
alert.
 Be around positive people. Positive people will encourage
you to step outside of your comfort zone and to build your
strengths and talents.
 Spend some time doing what interests you. Doing things
that make you happy will help to control your stress
hormones.

4.  Play with children. Seeing an innocent child smile or
laugh will brighten up your day.
 Always smile.You will use less physical and mental
energy when you smile as compared to frowning.
 Reinforce positive affirmations.The more you
reinforce positive affirmations the stronger your mind
becomes and the more positive you will become.
 Avoid exposure to negativity, such as the media.
The less you are exposed to negative attitudes, news
and opinions the less you will be influenced by them.
This will help to keep your attitude positive.