“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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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 everyday 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 on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
—Charles R. Swindoll (American Writer)
One of my favorite youtube videos about attitude comes from the Buddhist Monk, Pema Chodron, it’s called Troublemakers. It’s about looking at people who bother you —from a very different perspective. It’s about your attitude about people who trouble you.
It’s not unreasonable to think that about 90% of all things that trouble us come from the way WE look at things. For this reason attitude is our first —and perhaps most important — self-defense lesson.
Now here you’ll find a great lesson from a very famous teacher, a motivational speaker and business consultant named Zig Ziglar. He takes 10 minutes in this video to tell a story, about attitude, that I think everyone ought to hear at least once in their lives.
