There was a story in our local newspaper yesterday with the headline, "Prices rising faster than income," and I thought about how many stories about difficult times I’ve been reading about.

Here’s a different way to deal with these stories so you don’t get caught up in fear:
We live in a dualistic reality where for every plus there’s a minus, and for every up there’s a down. It’s a world of opposites.

Imagine that you are holding in your hand a coin–heads on one side, tails on the other. When you look at the coin, you only see one side. Turn it over and it looks entrely different.

It’s the same with whatever it is you are looking at. Turn it over, and you’ll see the opposite:

• On the other side of debt is solvency
• On the other side of evil is good
• On the other side of miserable is happpy

And on the other side of financial discomfort is financial comfort. All you have to do is turn over the coin and see it from a different point of view.

Because of the downturn, people are becoming more aware of their financial values, and many are getting past financial vaguenss and learning new cash managment skills. Consumerism is down, group activities are up. There is always a plus on the other side of a minus.

Look for the plus in what seems like a minus and you can turn your life around.