The economic recession is here but how can you stop yourself getting on the spiraling train to nowhere fast? Stop your own personal recession and turn a negative into a positive. As the state of the economy continues to decline, where are all the leaders? With a widespread decline in the GDP and employment on downward slide it seems that everywhere we turn we hear more personal stories of doom and gloom. Yet another round of redundancies, more depleted super nest eggs, retirees postponing retirement, banks foreclosing and people having to sell their homes in order to survive how can you be different?.. When difficult times abound people begin to look within and reflect on where they are in their own personal journey of life. Most people are either glass half full or glass half empty – which are you? Where are you? Do you love your job? Do you have enough time to spend with your family and friends? If you could choose the life you really want, how many hours a week would you work? Would you surround yourself with more positive and successful people? Can you see yourself clearly five years from now? What will you be doing, earning, seeing, and being? These and so many more questions will arise as adverse times surround us and we battle to move forward into the unknown. The catch here is to make the unknown known... So, let us focus on the positive. So many people are looking for positive leaders to show them the way and if they don¡¯t find them or they let them down then despair can set in. In order to survive difficult times we must first assess who and where we are and then or course who and where we would like to be. Here are the tips to not just survive this recession but to flourish..