Positive Perspective
Good Morning! Choose How Your Day Begins Picture this: You and your mate are lying in bed, enjoying some coffee to get your day started. Somehow, your cup of coffee gets spilled all over the bed. You laugh, pull off the covers, and start the wash. Before you know it, the cat decides to have one of his crazy episodes. He jumps on the bed, proceeds to leap onto the nightstand, and knocks over the other cup of coffee…all over the wall, the floor, the stuff on the nightstand. You and your mate laugh, clean up the mess, and move forward. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” —Jimmy Buffet Now, we all know that this could have gone in a totally different direction. One of you could have become angry, frustrated, or blameful. Worse yet, you BOTH could have gone down that path. We’ve all been there. “You’ve done it before, and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” —Ralph Marston I believe that when we wake up, we are at the purest and most
By Janet Van deWalle
positive that we will be all day. This is a very special time for us to launch the energy for the day before us. We get to choose to set our own tone. When our day begins with challenges—spilled coffee, a broken dishwasher, a leak in the ceiling—we have to stand strong and decide that we are going to hold onto the positive feeling tone that we woke up with. What I have discovered about my days is that the morning truly sets the tone for how the day is going to evolve. Allowing the “stuff of life” to derail us is quite common. If we are tired, are not feeling 100 percent, or slept poorly, it’s easy to head down the path of frustration, irritation, and despair. Guess what? Life happens. We get to CHOOSE how we are going to respond. “Life is matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you.” —John Maxwell Choosing a life in which we are deliberate creators, choosing laughter over anger, choosing smiles over scowls, will launch our days, months, and years into the life that we have contemplated and have imagined. The Universe knows what we want. The Universe has our backs, and that is all good. Very good. “If it feels good, it’s good.” —Abraham/Hicks
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