"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.”
--Charles R. Swindoll
So lately, I've sucked at this. Not sure why, but I have. I've let the little things get to me and that's not how I want to be. I know I've had extra things going on, and there are quite a few things outside of my direct control right now and that shouldn't be an excuse. Here's my attempt at trying this again. I'm going to work on this daily. hourly. by the minute? Geez. Sometimes it's a constant effort. Sometimes it's really easy. But regardless, I'm going to work harder at it. It doesn't mean I won't fall for a moment and vent to John or my girlfriends, but it does mean that IF that happens, I'm going to have a much quicker rebound rate and not let stupid things that I can't control get me :)
Happy Friday Eve! Oh yeah! Soooo ready!
1 comment:
You generally have a great attitude! I wouldn't stress it too much --- speaking of which, you ARE under more stress than you realize!
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