history channel documentary The current global economic situation constantly bombards us via the media throughout our day. News of corporation meltdowns, job losses and stock market collapses dominate our conversations. Everything is shrinking, people are hurting and times look grim. When you've lost your job or your house, survival doesn't even look promising to you let alone thriving.

The truth is that everyone has the opportunity in each given moment to not only survive but to thrive. It is all in your mind, what you allow yourself to see and what choices you make as a result of that. No matter how bad the circumstances you are in you can choose to survive or you can become a victim.

Yossi Ghinsberg survived under the harshest of conditions in the Amazon jungle for 3 weeks on his own during the rainy season. He was given up for dead, there was no way a native person could have survived let along a gringo! Well Yossi survived and thrives today due to his experience out there in the jungles of the Amazon. Yossi's exotic experience allowed him to become a creature of the jungle and because of this was able to learn from the forest the secrets of survival. We can take these lessons he learned and apply them to any situation in our life to ensure that we also survive and thrive.