Let’s face
the facts: for some of us, it would be much easier to list what’s wrong with
our lives than what’s right. To
counteract that natural tendency, I have put together a table of the pros and
cons of my current circumstances. (Actually, the most important “pro” is that I
figured out how to make a table in Word. There you go!) I have listed the
negatives in brown on the left. The positives are typed in blue on the right:
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Ongoing medical problem
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Medical Insurance
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Chronic illness is not resolved
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Visible improvement of
the problem
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Not currently working
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A few freelance editing
jobs
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Old cars
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They work!
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Not able to buy new clothes
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Have plenty of old ones
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Unable to eat gluten
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Able to eat plenty of
other foods
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Modest piano skills only
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Daily progress
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In my two
last blog posts, here
and here I reference the wonderful article, “25
Life-Altering Quotes on How Mindset Changes Everything” on Movemequotes.com. I would like to share some more sayings from
that wonderful piece once again:
“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 a certain
way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is plan on the
one thing 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 attitude.”—Charles R.
Swindoll
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“We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our
lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight,
persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our
evaluation of it is a choice.”—Jacob Held
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“Good thoughts and
actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never
produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but
corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural
world, and work with it, but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though
its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do
not cooperate with it.”—James Allen, As a
Man Thinketh
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“I will welcome
happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my
soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome
obstacles for they are my challenge.”—Og Mandino
Joyce Meyer
“Always think more
about what you do have than what you
don’t have.”
We should start our day
with empowering thoughts, such as: “I believe that something good is going to
happen in my life.”
My Conclusion
Ephesians 4:23 suggests that we “be renewed in the spirit of our mind”. Positive thinking often requires an attitude adjustment. It may be a long road for some of us. Still, we must keep the
destination in sight.
Please see more about keeping a positive attitude in my book, Accept No Trash Talk: Overcoming the Odds
How do you work on your mindset?
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