"A man's life is what his thoughts make of it." ~Marcus Aurelius
So let's say you wake up and say to yourself in dread of the day that "today is going to be horrible." Do you think you have any chance of anything more than a horrible day? Nope! What if you have a hard day before you, but you instead say that "today is going to be full of challenges, but I can tackle them all and it is going to be an awesomely rewarding day." Do you think your "can do" attitude and positive mindset will produce the fruits of good efforts and have a balanced happy vibe all throughout the day before you? Absolutely!
We are what we think...plain and simple. If we think negatively and mired down in the "can't" and the misery, then our expectations will be very much realized. If we think instead in the gratefulness of what we have and positively go forward into the "can" and the happy, then those expectations will not only be realized but very rewarding. Don't be like all the folks of today that seem to find their happiness in their misery, instead be happy and grateful. To be any other way is to remain miserable and nonproductive.
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." ~Francesca Reigler
"A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story. At the end of the day, it's all good." ~Glennon Melton
So let's say you wake up and say to yourself in dread of the day that "today is going to be horrible." Do you think you have any chance of anything more than a horrible day? Nope! What if you have a hard day before you, but you instead say that "today is going to be full of challenges, but I can tackle them all and it is going to be an awesomely rewarding day." Do you think your "can do" attitude and positive mindset will produce the fruits of good efforts and have a balanced happy vibe all throughout the day before you? Absolutely!
We are what we think...plain and simple. If we think negatively and mired down in the "can't" and the misery, then our expectations will be very much realized. If we think instead in the gratefulness of what we have and positively go forward into the "can" and the happy, then those expectations will not only be realized but very rewarding. Don't be like all the folks of today that seem to find their happiness in their misery, instead be happy and grateful. To be any other way is to remain miserable and nonproductive.
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." ~Francesca Reigler
"A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story. At the end of the day, it's all good." ~Glennon Melton
Boy today was that day. Looking back I can see a weekend of procrastination leaving Sunday night a restless one of worrying about unfinished tasks. Waking with my mind crammed full of urgent little fires to be put out, nudged out taking in the joy of a new morning full of possibilities. This little snowball of predicable and well practiced bad habits finds me surveying monumental efforts to produce little results, and wondering where it all went wrong.
ReplyDeleteBut tomorrow is another day... and today was a good story :)