The amount of lives lost is insurmountable.  The idea of mass graves in not a pleasant thought to digest.  They had to.

Out of the carnage, there is a continuous flow of good news right along with the bad news.  The good news is fueling hope. Despair is waning.  A monumental stream of cash flow for rebuilding Haiti and assisting its’ survivors is flowing like a river from governments and donations to the organizations that can make the difference.

The on-the-ground forces and aid groups are organizing, regulating the unrest, and assisting the Haitians to put their lives back together.  The message of hope has multiplied by the hands-on approach to helping them.

Even from afar, it is easy to see there has been quite a turnaround in attitude over the past days.  When the Presidential Palace collapsed, it symbolized to the people that their government had fallen.  The chaos that followed immediately plunged Haiti into anarchy.  Since then the government has regrouped, and the immediate dangers have been quelled.

Even though Haiti is poor, the hard life has tempered them into very strong willed people.  When the combined will of a population can be focused in a specific direction, they can move mountains.  In this case it starts with mountains of rubble.

Adding the energy of the military and the aid groups, hope has emerged and become a paramount force that will carry them forward.  Hope will prevail, even when there is nothing else.

HOPE + Will Power (Mental Strength) = GAIN

That is the reason humanity has stood the test of time.

Remember, there are plenty of lessons you can observe here.  Some of those may even be more important than this one.

The tenacity of your fellow humans is worth notice.

P – Personal. This is something very personal to you. Nobody can do it for you, and nobody can make you do it. All that causes is resentment. It’s Personal. Only you can do it for yourself. Even if others are giving you encouragement, the decision is solely yours.

M – Mind. If you want to create a Positive Mental Attitude, you must first create it in your mind. You must embrace it there first. As you embrace it, you take on the mantle of the Positive Mental Attitude. So before that energy moves into your environment and creates change around you, it must first start in your mind.

A – Alliance. The Alliance is the recognition that this a personal task you are taking on, and you are constructing the fabric of what you want in your mind. Now, the one thing that is still missing is your will power. Your will power is the driving force, the determination that sets it all in motion. It is the glue for the alliance to exist. Without this alliance including your will power, it is like you are driving an auto, but you don’t have the fuel to power it. You would go nowhere. So put your heart and energy into it.

These are the easiest steps you can ever take to gaining a Positive Mental Attitude. Sure there is more to it than that. But it is up to you to fill in the blanks. It’s YOUR Positive Mental Attitude.