Shit happens – figure it out. I love that quote from Tony Gareri. It spoke to me because most things never go exactly as planned. Too many obstacles can get in your way and throw you off course. You can’t control what’s out of your control, but you can decide how to react. Shit happens – it’s called life. You can either step over the shit or step in it. You pick. You can either let it ruin your day and torpedo your plans – or you can learn from it and use it to learn the lesson it’s trying to teach you and begin again. This time, a little wiser and a little more informed.

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. ” – Joyce Meyer.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than 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, or a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. We can only play on the one string we have, which is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes. Wise words with remembering by Charles Swindell.

“The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – A. Kane.

Do you walk around thinking your cup is half-full or half-empty? I think my cup is half-full. I choose to see the positives in everything that happens to me as a learning opportunity. Even the negative things that happen to you, and trust me, there will be plenty of them, are positives if you look at them from another point of view. It helps if you believe everything happens to you for a reason. Whatever happens today is preparing you for what will happen tomorrow.

“Some people want it to happen., some wish it would happen, and others make it happen. ” M.J.

I am, without a doubt, the most optimistic person you will ever meet. Besides being an eternal optimist, I’m also a realist. I do have my Dr. Phil moments of clarity. I know that I can’t control everything that happens around me. But I know I can control how I react in any situation. In that space between stimulus and response that Dr. Covey talks about and what Dr. Viktor Frankl knows to be true from his experiences, I know I must react in a way that will get me what I want. I know that shit happens, and I will figure it out. You can figure your shit out, too.

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