What is your attitude when things get tough? Do you retreat and hope things will just get better? Do you believe that every cloud has a silver lining and it will be all right in the end? When things are bad they always see worse than they are. Sometimes they are, of course, but problems in bad times are always magnified.

Read the newspapers or watch the news on television and you would think the world was going to end. Armageddon is just around the corner…or is it? Probably not.

Wearing rose colored glasses when things are tough is not very sensible, but we do need to find some sort of balance. If we don’t, the decisions we take are going to be the wrong ones.

It’s an alarming fact that we take decisions on 5% of the available information. The message is clear. We need develop our awareness and start to ask more questions. We need to season our diet of bad news with a few facts.

We could make things so much better for ourselves if we asked more questions. The more questions you ask, the better able you are to be able to make informed decisions.

For some strange reason, few of ask questions about our health and about weight in particular. If we’re overweight, we are reluctant to bring the subject up. We feel vulnerable. Instead we continue with the behaviors that made us overweight in the first place, and hope the problem goes away – which it doesn’t. Soon the day dawns when the bill has to be paid.

There’s a great similarity with the current financial crisis. Doing things that are not in your long-term interest, living a lie, not being totally honest, being selfish and greedy. it doesn’t make good reading.

But let’s not always look on the black side. Maybe every cloud has got a silver lining after all! Let’s start to look for opportunities. Let’s take our health, and our weight in particular. If we are slim and healthy we will be in a far better position to deal with whatever is thrown at us than if we were fat or obese. Isn’t it time we shed all those extra pounds and put our life in order? ‘The crunch’ should be the catalyst that stirred us into action: time to change and learn some new habits – slim habits.

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