Positive psychology urges to turn setback into a challenge and an opportunity for better ways: Note, quotes and limericks

NOTE

Setbacks are merely temporary occurrences. A failure, setback, or adversity is not attributable to you. Frequently, it results from external circumstances. Instead, transform it into a new opportunity to confront the challenge anew and strive harder. Positive psychology recommends that one cultivate the skill of 'Learned Optimism' by examining the circumstances and converting them into opportunities with a new action plan and renewed determination.

QUOTES

• Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. ― Roy T. Bennett

• Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. ― Roy T. Bennett

• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ― Victor Hugo

• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ― Noam Chomsky

LIMERICKS

A setback, it stings, it is true,

But blame not yourself, it's not you.

Circumstance played,

A challenge displayed,

Try harder, and you'll break through!

Though the path turns to gray for a while,

It's no fault, just a twist, wear a smile.

See it as high ground,

Where new strength is found,

Then rise, brightly shine, mile by mile.

Let's view hope as a skill we can gain,

A truth positive thinkers explain.

When shadows descend,

New chances we mend,

With fresh steps, out in sunshine and rain.