Posts by Pat:
What’s your attitude?
Our attitude can be based on the weather, politics, the way people treat us, or a whole lot of other things. We’ve all seen our attitude rise and fall, sometimes surprising us…and sometimes not!
Or… our attitude can be exactly what we choose it to be.
When we allow our attitude to be determined by
- other folks,
- what’s on the nightly news, or
- random circumstances,
it can be volatile, undependable, and not very productive!
With all the media “news” we may well find be finding ourselves challenged.
A good question to ponder might be
“Which came first, the news or the news cycle?”
What if the ubiquitous videos, accompanied by those talking heads, isn’t merely reporting the news, but causing it?
There’s always front page news because there’s always a front page!
The journalistic phrase “If it bleeds, it leads” is familiar to most of us.
Actually the world is safer (per capita) than ever before in recorded history. AND, even so, people are more frightened. The rise of our fear matches the rise of the media. And the media seems to want urgency more than importance.
What do we want?
We can choose our own attitude, independent of
what’s happening around us. We can turn off the media. We don’t have to hook ourselves up to those devices that continually shock us into a fear-based posture.
We can make the most of difficult situations and find and create value in our world.
Our attitude is the lens through which we see life and it’s best when that lens is focused on the positive possibilities!
There’s nothing that forces us to adopt one particular attitude over another. Our attitude is always our choice.
Remember Zig Ziglar? One of my favorite quotes of his:
We can choose an attitude that will enable us to soar!
What do you do to strengthen your positive attitude?
Do it all or don’t
Every life form except human beings operates by instinct in its genetic code. It has no multiple choice, no other options. In the winter, the goose flies south. Why? Because he’s a goose. He couldn’t fly west. If you said to the goose that it’d be better to go west, he’d ignore that advice. Why? Because […]
Diverted or Distracted?
We saw the repeated television coverage of Sully Sullenberger’s jet plane landing on the Hudson River due to that flock of Canadian Geese disabling the engines. (or maybe just saw the movie “Sully”..?) Diversions are a choice we make (to head for the airport or to land in the river?) Being diverted is not the same as […]
9 Life Lessons
Did you ever see the email that went viral on the internet called “Life Lessons from a 90 Year Old Woman?” Now, this is a gal I can relate to! And, no, she was not 90 years old. Regina Brett wrote the list the night before her 45th birthday after being diagnosed with breast cancer. She […]
Uniquely Unique
Of course, each of us is different. Different histories, different stories. From your fingerprints to whether you have an appendix or tonsils, you are uniquely you. You are different from everyone else, from your DNA to the kind of morning you had today. And thus no one can understand you completely. And yet… And yet […]
The Gift of Autumn
It’s a strange and wonderful reality that marks this time of the year-one that actually feeds our soul’s need to cocoon, to nest, to hunker down after the sheer busyness of summer. Fall is the fourth and final major sun cycle of the year and it means a time of changing focus and direction in our lives. […]
Wasted Time? Or not!
Do you have “stuff” you’d love to do, but don’t feel you have time for? Is not having enough time your excuse for not accomplishing what you say you want to do? Is there some “wasted” time in your day? Of course, this isn’t you or me ( or is it?) But check out this information from a […]
A new season and new day!
“September” is such an invigorating idea! (and it’s especially an invigorating month!) It’s back to school and new projects! It’s unofficially the beginning of fall! And though fall is really only 3 months long, that’s plenty of time to look at the “clean slate” that it provides. I invite you to join me and stop “doing” […]
Who’s your favorite grouch?
Some famous grouches: Oscar the Grinch Grumpy Scrooge Maxine Garfield Eeyore Lucy a relative? the boss? you? We certainly have a lot of role models to choose from! And there are lessons to be learned if we are willing. For example, frowns vs. smiles… After all, we’ve heard that it takes more work to […]
Enjoying life vs. improving life
Wisdom from author E.B. White: “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” And […]