Tips to Overcome Tough Times in Your Life

Stress is everywhere: in the office and at home, in shops and in traffic jams. However, many people face such difficulties in comparison with which a three-hour traffic jam is nothing. Severe diseases, betrayal of loved ones, bankruptcy make the world sometimes too cruel.

How to find the strength to resist all negativeness? Someone is trying to fight it and avoid bad events in their lives, others are ready to experience all problems paatiently. No matter what way you choose, here are some tips that will help you to overcome tough times and move on.

How to get through difficult moments

1. Avoid negative thoughts
If you have any problems then you’re constantly thinking of them. All this fills your life with negativity. It’s so easy to complain and feel sorry for yourself. It’s easy to be always ready to fail. But this won’t help you to overcome despair. Such destructive attitude will only worsen your situation. Learn to find something good or useful in any situation. Learn how to avoid bad thoughts here.

2. Make yourself feel happy
The ability to be happy is just a habit and optimism is a matter of practice. You need to consciously seek, notice and remember the things that make you feel happier, then a good mood will be with you more often than a bad one.

3. Pain is a part of life, it makes you stronger
Of course, you always want to feel good but this does not happen. However the thing that is always at your disposal is a choice how to react to pain. Look for something good in every situation, and remember that you have someone to rely on. And no matter what, remember that there are worse situations.

4. You need a friend
You should find a friend to rely on. Let them listen to you filtering all words through the prism of their own needs and feelings, they may give you some advice or just support you with a good word. In difficult times any help is welcome.

5. Stop torturing yourself
Torturing yourself is perhaps the biggest mistake you can make during tough times. Feeling guilty because of unfulfilled plans, missed opportunities or unhappy relationship are just wasting a huge amount of your energy that is needed for recovery.

6. Notice your victories
No matter what happens now it can’t be that you’re a total loser. I’m sure you have some victories and success, talents or precious skills. Remember it and don’t fall into despair.

7. Avoid your fears
Sometimes your biggest fear is only an illusion. Most often people experience the fear of unknown (learn how to cope with it here). They don’t know yet whether there will be something good or bad, but they only think of a bad result. Fight your fears and stop being afraid of the things that don’t exist.

8. Everything passes
Life is not perfect but it’s not so bad. No matter what is happening right now it will pass. Remember it and believe in better future.

9. Don’t make serious decisions
Try to avoid making serious decisions and plans during tough times in your life. During this period you shouldn’t find answers to fundamental questions. If you don’t know what to do with your life, work or relationship, let yourself live without knowing it. At least for now.

10. Live in the present moment
Your future depends on you, it’s not determined by your mistakes and failures in the past. You can make it better or worse. However, you can’t change or miss the present moments as they are the bricks that build your better future.

Remember that bad thoughts attract only nagativity. Only you can control your mood and it shouldn’t depend solely on external success and prosperity. Even millionaires can suffer from depression and beggars can have fun.

*Steps To Overcome Tough Times in Your Life:-

1.Tighten the fiscal belt.
If you are experiencing hard financial times, there are several ways to make it, and none of them are easy. Tighten the belt and the purse strings and making a lists of "need-its" and "don't need-its". If you need it to sustain life and maintain a decent living standard, then you must put forth the capital. If it is something you feel you can't live without but know that you can, then don't spend on that certain thing until your situation improves. If there is absolutely no way you can dig your way out or "keep up with falling behind", then you may have to consider consumer credit help or possibly (last resort) bankruptcy. Don't take bankruptcy lightly or treat it as an easy option; it can follow you through most of your adult life, keeping you from purchasing even the necessities in the future if you don't learn to control your spending or manage your lifestyle to equal your income.

2.Keep your expectations low and you will rarely be disappointed. 
This may not seem right to you until you spend some time thinking about how it applies to your own personal life. Use your faith or beliefs; maybe you consider that God, the universe or nature provide us with the tools for any situation; whatever the source, it is up to us to use those tools to keep body and soul together.

3.Be prepared to let time assist emotional pain. 
As for emotional rough times, there is an old saying that "time heals all wounds", and that everything looks better from a distance. Let yourself grieve, cry, wail or whatever it may be that makes you feel like you can continue on another day, and if your emotional distress is something that makes you feel doom or thoughts of death or profound sadness, by all means, seek professional help (including your primary care physician)!

4.Go with the flow for everyday life. 
As for the other slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, go with the flow and roll with it; this is a test, only a test. We will all make it to the finish line and none of us will be allowed to take anything with us when we go.

Tips;
A couple of tips for financial tough times:
*Find out what you can buy the most of for the least amount of money and even if you have to eat strangely for a month or two, make do with this and stick to it.
*This applies to clothing as well; you bought what you have because you liked it, right? Well, keep liking it until it falls apart or you hit the lotto.
*Buy good shoes that keep their support and get them fixed when they start to fall apart.
*Quit eating out, and instead of buying coffee out, bring your own from home and pay yourself the tip to be used to treat yourself at the end of the month or to pay a small debt when enough has been accumulated.

Warnings:
*Don't think that everything will improve instantly, and don't think for a minute that there aren't a whole lot of people living just like you are and you can't even tell. It's all in the attitude. Remember: you don't have to look very far to find someone who has it a lot worse off than you do. Lift them up with your spirit and your spirits will be lifted! Everything will be fine and believe in yourself.