The Choice

Good morning,

Happy Friday! Is today going to be a good day or a bad day? Life is so full of surprises that it might seem impossible to know at six a.m. how the day will turn out. On one hand, it’s true that many things are outside our control. But on the other hand, we control the single most determining factor, our attitude.

Attitude is a choice - a choice that makes all the difference.

In business, as in other aspects of our lives, there are so many times when a change of attitude not only changes our feelings toward a situation but actually helps improve the situation itself. Yet changing our attitude often seems like the most unnatural thing in the world. We assume that if something looks bad, sounds bad and feels bad, it must be bad. But the reality is that it only IS bad if we say it is.

I’m sure we can all remember plenty of occasions when we’ve turned “problems” into “opportunities” and it usually starts with the attitude we choose to have about the situation.

Changing the way we describe a situation to ourselves, for example from “this stinks” to “no problem,” makes an amazing difference. Our self talk is inseparable from our attitude, and so just by changing the things we tell ourselves, we can change our lives.

This day, no matter what arises, let’s make it a good one!

Have a sunny day,
Clarity

P.S. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809)

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright, Painter and lithographer born 1876 in Mannheim, Germany

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Clarity Patton Newhouse
Metropolitan Lincoln Mercury
32000 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135
313-670-7505
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