My approach to life appears to be to make lemonade out of every lemon life throws at me. I have remarked about this in different ways over here in the past 2-3 years. Mind you, it's not an approach I am a fan of. I do it kicking and screaming literally. I would rather God gave me grapes or honey or something instead of leaving me with the onerous task of squeezing and squeezing till my arms hurt. My first response to a lemon is the refrain you are probably now familiar with, why God? Why me? ;)

But I suppose this constant position of being handed lemons has helped in 1. making me already prepared for the task, 2. developing strategic skills for the task. Every time I am in any situation I am interested in minimizing my energy spend. Because I have little energy for physical activities or activities/people who don't interest me. Obviously, I want to reserve the most for things/people that do. With the lemon squeezing situation, which for that reason too is inherently harder for me, I try to look at how to make myself spend less and less energy at every successive such situation. I suppose that's how I end up maximizing the lemons... if you know what I mean!