As simple as all that may sound, we know that it’s not always that easy to choose the right attitude in every situation. It’s easier to have a good attitude when we’re not facing challenges or devastating circumstances. It’s when we have those not so good times that our choice of attitude is put to the test. We all have our ups and downs, our highs and ours lows, but the fact will always remain that no matter what, it’s our choice. Only you can choose your attitude, no one else can choose it for you. The amazing thing about choosing the right attitude is that it sets us up to make different decisions which can significantly affect our current and/or future circumstances. That is why the choices that we make about our attitude are so important, because it will have that ripple effect. Good or bad attitudes will ripple out to give us continued good or bad circumstances. It won’t always be an easy choice to give ourselves positive self talk when times are tough and it may take a more conscious, deliberate effort to speak positive words during those times, but it’s when we’re able to do that, that we’ll see things in our life change.
How Will You Choose
Your attitude about any given situation is entirely your choice. That doesn’t mean you can control every situation, but what it does mean is that you can control how you react to it. How you choose your attitude is largely based on habits. Habits that you form by consistently feeding your mind, consciously or sub-consciously, with the things you see, read and hear.
If you constantly see, read or hear negative things, then your mind will naturally produce negative thoughts, but if you consistently see, read or hear positive things, then you will naturally produce positive thoughts. It would be unreasonable to suggest blocking or removing all negative things from your life, but the key is consistency. What are you constantly feeding into your mind?
“Every Moment Offers Us Choices. Choose wisely,
Because the Choices You Make, Make You.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart
Those thoughts that you develop in your mind is what will ultimately come out in your self talk. Positive or negative, good or bad, what you take in is what you will put out. So there is a process to develop the ability of choosing the right attitude and all it takes is a slight adjustment to what you consistently allow into your mind. The more consistently you do it, the more second nature it becomes.
There will always be challenges and difficulties, but how you face them will determine your destiny. You don’t have to be a victim of your circumstances as long as you remember to realize that you have the power to choose your attitude. You might not always have control of what is going on around you, but you do have control of what you tell yourself about it!
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