Trying to keep a positive attitude!

I truly believe that good things happen when you keep a positive attitude in life, but you also need to be realistic as well. With all the bad things that have happened to me this year it has been difficult to be 100% positive, but I'm surprisingly more relaxed than I ever thought I would be. I've always been the type that had more of a negative attitude, even when things were going relatively well for me. So it is shocking to me that I've been able to keep my sanity with all the hardship I've seen this year. I guess that my brain is telling me that things can only get better for me, and that dwelling on the bad things isn't going to be very productive at all.

I still have to be realistic though, and realize that I may not easily find a job as a Photoshop retoucher again. The printing prepress industry is dying in the Toronto area, many of the high end shops have now closed down and the ones that are left aren't hiring. So I might just need to focus on how I'm going to earn a living for the next 15-20 years until I can retire. Maybe this layoff was the kick in the butt that I needed in order to get out of this silly business and into something that will make me a heck of a lot more money.