Attitude For Life

This has been around for a long time but I like repeating it from time to time. It is an essay of sort regarding how one can approach life. Most certainly there are circumstances within our life over which we have no control.

We do have power over our own attitude and how those circumstances effect us. It is with that power that one can overcome obstacles or at the very least 'ride through' those tough times.

So read on and see if you can capture the spirit of its meaning. Adapt it within your own life. It will not keep the good or bad from happening. What it will do is allow you to adjust your own path through what life throws at you.

Attitude

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 failures,
Than success,
Than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance,
Giftedness or skill.
It will make or break an organization,
A school, 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 the string we have.
And that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
And 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you.

- Charles Swindoll