Chapter 76 Your Response to Daily Situations.
Our lives consist of minutes, hours, days and years. Our attitude, thoughts and responses to daily situations are crucial; over time they add up to make our total destiny! Positives are empowering, but negatives are the Achilles heels; they weaken us and persuade us to throw in the towel. How can you attain greatness by thinking petty or pathetic thoughts? It is also more tiring to harbour negative feelings than positive ones. Things like grudge and resentment only allow others to hurt us longer. There is no reward in grumbling; solve your problems quickly instead of moaning about them. Let your positive outlook bring another good day.
Your advancement should keep you so busy that you have no time for complaints and criticism. Emerson noted, "Life is too short to waste in critic peep or cynic bark, quarrel or reprimand... A Chinese proverb says: "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Reactive people complain about the weather; proactive ones create and bring good weather with them! Their proactivity magnifies their scope and power of mastery. Can you recall my brothers drenching boat ride in Chapter 66?
Darwin wrote, "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. Shakespeare noted, "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Since we cannot control fully our external conditions, our internal assessment of these conditions makes huge differences! Deep in ourselves, our view of the world goes with the words and meaning we give to it. Our sight and comprehension colour our world, affect our response and shape our lives.
Words are very powerful. The way we think and talk about everything affects our feelings and behaviour. Mark Twain asserted: "A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual... That is how forceful words are, they mould our vision and motivate us. The Bible stated: "In the beginning was the word... Since each little daily reaction is important, we must use an empowering vocabulary for all situations. It enlarges our well-being, softens our hardship and is our starting point in improving our lives and moulding our destiny. Now we hold a magical key and that influential first step towards sunshine, solution, self-mastery and success. I suggest you make pages of positive phrases. Put them on the walls. Immerse yourself in them and use them constantly. Let them govern your response to the world. Ive started a page for you, please carry on: