What can adverse conditions lead to?

Are there choices to be made or do they just unfold?

Of course it depends on the situation, doesn’t it? The question for me is; how can we be better prepared for these adverse situations?

I believe that the preparation is a 2-step process;

• It starts by understanding that life will not be perfectly laid out before you. By that I mean that you need to understand that life will have its challenges and it will have it’s joys.
• Secondly I believe that having an open mind gives you an opportunity to accept the situations that come up in your life. When I say ‘accept’ I mean that when a challenging situation shows up you acknowledge that ‘yes, this is part of life’, then move forward in finding a solution.

Isn’t this a better way of handling adverse conditions than falling apart?