Failure is only temporary. It does not have to be a life script. The real trick is to pick yourself up, and look straight ahead and move forward. This means looking at what you did wrong and how you can do it differently.
by: Charles Swindol
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, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, 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 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 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% how I react to it.
And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.
A few month ago, I got the audio version of As A Man Thinketh. It is written by James Allen. Allen insists upon
the power of the individual to form his own character and to create his own happiness.
Thought and character are one, he says, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man’s circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought element within him that, for the time being, they are indispensable to his development.
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