A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed.
Earl Nightingale
Today I am grateful for my gradual change of heart. I didn't miraculously wake up relieved of the obsession it happened over time. I didn't wake up one day with a more positive and grateful heart that also happened over time. But guess what with practice I am becoming the person that I thought I could be. I have achieved much more through gratitude and patience than I ever did in my addictive mind of entitlement and now! now! now! attitude. When I opened my mind to thinking differently it opened up a whole new world. Its funny too when I changed the way I saw things, the things I saw changed. I live in an entirely different world now. I have an attitude of gratitude.
Much love and respect,
Jane
Jane,
You remind me that when I first joined the board I was cold, scientific and skeptical about a unifying higher being. A board member, BobB. asked me to give faith a try for just 30 days -- to act "as if" I believed in a God of my understanding. So I did, and life seemed just a little better (calmer, more orderly, more joyful). After the month was up, I decided to act as if for another thirty days. And somewhere in the course of that time I realized that I had always been expecting faith to hit me like falling off a cliff -- some crisis conversion where there'd be blinding light and belief forever. For me, I work my spiritual connection with God the same way I work sobriety: one day at a time.
But the attitude of willingness to believe that things work out the way they're supposed to, that there is a plan, has saved me many times. I guess that's what I consider to be a positive attitude these days.
Thanks for your quotes and your thoughts on them. They make me think, too.
Love,
Gina
You remind me that when I first joined the board I was cold, scientific and skeptical about a unifying higher being. A board member, BobB. asked me to give faith a try for just 30 days -- to act "as if" I believed in a God of my understanding. So I did, and life seemed just a little better (calmer, more orderly, more joyful). After the month was up, I decided to act as if for another thirty days. And somewhere in the course of that time I realized that I had always been expecting faith to hit me like falling off a cliff -- some crisis conversion where there'd be blinding light and belief forever. For me, I work my spiritual connection with God the same way I work sobriety: one day at a time.
But the attitude of willingness to believe that things work out the way they're supposed to, that there is a plan, has saved me many times. I guess that's what I consider to be a positive attitude these days.
Thanks for your quotes and your thoughts on them. They make me think, too.
Love,
Gina
